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Offline Randy

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Who should your team protect in the expansion . .
« on: April 26, 2004, 08:50:59 PM »
draft?  Your team gets to protect 8 player -- who are they?
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« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2004, 08:20:56 AM »
duncan
parker
manu
rasho   (maybe - depends if the spurs buy out luis scola's contract this summer)
d brown
hedo
horry
bowen


malik is a possible to keep (mainly becuase horry CANT be expected to stay at the top of his game for too long at his age, and secondly we may or may not be filled with taller longer better power forwards if we do sign scola this summer....i love malik, but he may not get any playing time next year with scola and horry ahead of him in rotation, he might have a better career being drafted IMO...)
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Who should your team protect in the expansion . .
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2004, 08:31:23 AM »
Keep:
- Iverson: Need to get more than cap space for a star, even if he has problems.
- Kenny Thomas: developed into a 15/10 combo forward last season.
- Willie Green: future starter in this league.  7 pts in only 14 minutes/game last year in rookie season.  15 points in only 24 minutes per game in april.  Offensive threat and VERY good defender.  
- Samuel Dalembert: Kid will be an all-star center some day.  Right now probably ahead development wise to some high-profile picks like chandler, curry and kwame.  Good defender, good rebounder, and out of this world athlete.  12.5/12.5/4.5 blocks in april.
- Kyle Korver: makes next to nothing, serves a role.
- John Salmons: good defender, needs consistency, still young.
- Marc Jackson: Centers with skill are at a premium.  Would be nice if he could ever stay healthy.
- Eric Snow or Aaron McKie: need one for veteran leadership, defense and half-court floor general.

Left off:
- McKie (or Snow): We need to keep one for veteran leadership and steadiness in the halfcourt set.  But both are signed to too large and too long contracts, so losing one and getting a trade exception would help immensely.
- Robinson: In last year of deal, and is only around anymore to be traded to someone looking for cap relief.  Trade exception would do the same thing.
- Buckner: Horrible contract.
- DC: In last year of deal anyway.  See Robinson.
 
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« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2004, 09:39:32 AM »
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duncan
parker
manu
rasho   (maybe - depends if the spurs buy out luis scola's contract this summer)
d brown
hedo
horry
bowen


malik is a possible to keep (mainly becuase horry CANT be expected to stay at the top of his game for too long at his age, and secondly we may or may not be filled with taller longer better power forwards if we do sign scola this summer....i love malik, but he may not get any playing time next year with scola and horry ahead of him in rotation, he might have a better career being drafted IMO...)
Manu & Hedo are free agents and can't be protected.  But then Charlotte also can't dreaft free agents.  I think Devin might also be a free agent.

Once you remove free agents I think the Spurs only have 8 players under contract for next year.  Protect them all.  If one has to be left unprotected then either Hart or Garcia.
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« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2004, 09:57:02 AM »
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duncan
parker
manu
rasho   (maybe - depends if the spurs buy out luis scola's contract this summer)
d brown
hedo
horry
bowen


malik is a possible to keep (mainly becuase horry CANT be expected to stay at the top of his game for too long at his age, and secondly we may or may not be filled with taller longer better power forwards if we do sign scola this summer....i love malik, but he may not get any playing time next year with scola and horry ahead of him in rotation, he might have a better career being drafted IMO...)
Manu & Hedo are free agents and can't be protected.  But then Charlotte also can't dreaft free agents.  I think Devin might also be a free agent.

Once you remove free agents I think the Spurs only have 8 players under contract for next year.  Protect them all.  If one has to be left unprotected then either Hart or Garcia.
Lurker, it was my understanding that each team had to declare one person for the expansion draft even if the team didn't have 8 players under contract.  Isn't that correct?  I don't know if it will bite any teams but it sure has the possibility of biting some teams (like Atlanta who tried to drop all their players).
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« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2004, 10:00:46 AM »
ahhhh what does it matter, how is anybody going to take "The Bobcats" seriously????   i mean seriously, the name disgusts me.  how could stern allow such a whimpy name to be let into the league......thats right up there with toronto and the cheesy Barney looking dinosuar they wore when they first entered the league.  i thought they were trying to reach out to the toddler market with that one....but atleast RAPTORS was a cool name...
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« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2004, 10:03:51 AM »
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ahhhh what does it matter, how is anybody going to take "The Bobcats" seriously????   i mean seriously, the name disgusts me.  how could stern allow such a whimpy name to be let into the league......thats right up there with toronto and the cheesy Barney looking dinosuar they wore when they first entered the league.  i thought they were trying to reach out to the toddler market with that one....but atleast RAPTORS was a cool name...
It's my understanding that they tried first for the "Pussycats" but Josie already had the trademark on that name.
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« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2004, 10:05:48 AM »
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ahhhh what does it matter, how is anybody going to take "The Bobcats" seriously????   i mean seriously, the name disgusts me.  how could stern allow such a whimpy name to be let into the league......thats right up there with toronto and the cheesy Barney looking dinosuar they wore when they first entered the league.  i thought they were trying to reach out to the toddler market with that one....but atleast RAPTORS was a cool name...
It's my understanding that they tried first for the "Pussycats" but Josie already had the trademark on that name.
they should have just gone full blown WNBA and called themselves the "Charlotte Queefs".....
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« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2004, 10:27:29 AM »
Hmmmmm... Let's see.  There team will be represent by a ferocious predator.  Your team is represented by an inanimate object used to goad farm animals into moving.    :o  
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« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2004, 10:51:59 AM »
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Hmmmmm... Let's see.  There team will be represent by a ferocious predator.  Your team is represented by an inanimate object used to goad farm animals into moving.    :o
lets try jabbing a spur into you or your team and see if that doesnt hurt like the dickens....
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« Reply #10 on: April 27, 2004, 10:53:12 AM »
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Hmmmmm... Let's see.  There team will be represent by a ferocious predator.  Your team is represented by an inanimate object used to goad farm animals into moving.    :o
lets try jabbing a spur into you or your team and see if that doesnt hurt like the dickens....
it would probably hurt more than a date with Kobe bryant , or leave more sting than a latrell spreewell choke job.........so there.
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« Reply #11 on: April 27, 2004, 10:56:55 AM »
Look if you want to go around in leather chaps inflicting pain on the guys you ride around that's fine but I don't swing that way.  ;)  
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« Reply #12 on: April 27, 2004, 11:42:10 AM »
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Lurker, it was my understanding that each team had to declare one person for the expansion draft even if the team didn't have 8 players under contract.  Isn't that correct?  I don't know if it will bite any teams but it sure has the possibility of biting some teams (like Atlanta who tried to drop all their players).
It may be that each team has to leave one player unprotected....I'm not sure.  I put off reading up on the expansion draft until after the season.  Also I'm not entirely sure of the Spurs' contract status for next year.  I need to check on a couple things & will get to this topic.

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« Reply #13 on: April 27, 2004, 12:04:55 PM »
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Hmmmmm... Let's see.  There team will be represent by a ferocious predator.  Your team is represented by an inanimate object used to goad farm animals into moving.    :o
Nice one JN.  I happen to have a bobcat or two roaming my immediate environs.  I have seen the tracks, and I have lost 2 house cats as a result, so bobcats are not cute cuddlely furballs.

As far as the draft, I think Randy is correct.  You have to make someone available to the dispersal draft, even if you only have 7 under contract.  The Blazers signed Eddie Gill to a 2 year deal for exactly that reason, to assure they have 9 under contract and be able to offer him as the pick.

The Blazers will protect for sure
Ratliff
Randolph
Rahim
Anderson
Outlaw
Patterson
and probably
Davis
Stoudamire

They will leave as unprotected
Gill
Dickau
Stepania
Qyntel Woods

Miles is a FA, so they don't have to protect him.

They may decide to protect Woods or Dickau, and if so they will protect Davis and/or Stoudamire.  Damon is the most likely to be left unprotected because his contract is so large, he probably won't be picked up.  Davis and Damon both are on last year deals, and Davis has a lot of trade vakue because he is big, and has a large ending contract.
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« Reply #14 on: April 27, 2004, 12:18:33 PM »
Whom the Kings are likely to protect:

Peja
Bibby
Webber
Miller
BJax
Songaila  :huh:
Possibly Christie   <_<
Possibly Peeler


Divac is a free agent
Massenburg is gone
Smith is, well, "Jabari" Smith
Buford is bench fodder

Gerald Wallace is clearly the guy on the fence in all of this. Going into his fourth season, he has not shown the mental aspects of learning the NBA game the coaches want from him. He and Bobby Jackson both claim Wallace will be shadowing the established Kings' guard all summer to learn what it takes to improve his game to make something of himself in the League; something that Bobby Jackson certainly can attest to. Do the coaches and staff believe he is going to do the work needed to become a part of the Kings' offense next year? Have to wait and see how this one turns out.

Christie might be left unprotected under the assumption the Bobcats won't want his salary and age factor, among other considerations. Peeler is also a possible candidate for not being protected.

Darius Songaila is a protege of both Miller's and Divac, and I think the Kings want him to stick with the team. His game looks to be ideal for coming off the bench and playing a hard twenty minutes for them.
 
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