Why not swing the fences on Biyombo and add some reliable backups?

[Mediocre Man]

How is Biyombo "swinging for the fences"?

 

[e_blazer]

How is Biyombo "swinging for the fences"?

Very small little league park.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

How is Biyombo "swinging for the fences"?

Original post was from 2011.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Question doesn't change. Really question it more

 

[PCmor7]

Zombie topics.

 

[BonesJones]

Olshey signs underrated players on good contracts not overhyped players on outlandish contracts.

Not worried.

 

[dviss1]

Olshey signs underrated players on good contracts not overhyped players on outlandish contracts.

Not worried.

We aren't going after BB.

/thread

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

@SlyPokerDog

We were gonna have to get the muzzle out

 

[SlyPokerDog]

@SlyPokerDog

We were gonna have to get the muzzle out

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

After the complaints I got last time I figured it was best to delete that.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Olshey signs underrated players on good contracts not overhyped players on outlandish contracts.

Not worried.

Olshey is gonna use his pitch trick 2k option and get Biyombo for 4 years/32mil.

 

[blue9]

Sorry, I only read the title and lost it at the thought that Biyombo was "swinging for the fences". LOL!

 

[Chris Craig]

He's just to damned expensive for a backup...a high risk for that kind of money...players are getting paid large contracts these days for potential...used to be you had to prove yourself.

Just go after Marvin Williams and Jeremy Lin

 

[Orion Bailey]

What's the big risk? You can always add a guy like Faried in free agency because of their limitations. I say we re-tool and give this group one more shot personally but just bring in a little firepower.

How about trying to trade Rudy, Claver, and some salary filler to Minnesota for Flynn, then sending Flynn to Phoenix for a S&T Brooks (at 3-4 million a year, 3 year)? He can still backup Andre but just split time, and I think that'd be a great balance (though not a ton of defense there).

We could trade Freeland/Claver for Turiaf possibly as NY could probably get some vets (Vince Carter?) who want to win on the cheap anyways and Dantoni does well with foreigners. Then he could be our insurance/cheerleader/intimidating guy off the bench.

We could draft Biyombo (maybe trade up picks with cash), and he could sit on the bench this year and learn from defense minded vets who learned how to utilize their limited offensive games in Camby and Turiaf.

Miller/Roy/Wallace/Aldridge/Oden?
Brooks/Matthews/Batum/Turiaf/Camby

reserves: Mills, Johnson, Williams, Biyombo, Johnson

Nice balance of vets (Camby, Miller), guys in their prime (Roy - what's left, Aldridge, Wallace, Turiaf, Matthews, Brooks), and still youth (Batum, Oden, Biyombo, etc.)

I just feel like it's fleeting to pursue Nash or other over the hill guys. I like our roster on the whole if Roy can find a niche he can contribute to somewhere. There's still some potential, the guys have never played together healthy, and there's a lot of court IQ. I say we cut the dead weight/failed experiments and add some reliable players who you know what you're gonna get with. Brooks = streaky but good shooting, limited defense. Turiaf = energy, defense, decent passing.

Camby and Miller have meant so much to the team the last two years and are really good with the young guys so I'd want to make a large upgrade if we lost them not a moderate upgrade.

Sorry, but I cant take this seriously. Swing for the fences on a complete unproven player because he had a couple of great rebounding games?
That's not swinging for the fences, that's gambling at tall odds. Unless he is willing to take far less than what has been projected...
Much rather see someone come in that adds stability and proven play.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Sorry, I only read the title and lost it at the thought that Biyombo was "swinging for the fences". LOL!

God DAMN it I did the same thing....