Seems to me that the value of some will increase as others may no longer be available.....
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In the scenario that we sign him and keep Ryno, how would the minutes for the bigs look? Highly doubt this will happen, but i would have loved to have him if we didn't have Omer
asks only had 1 good season and is due 14 mil. blatche has double asks career stats and will cost only about 7 mil
I'm not buying into anything until I hear it from McNamara
really hope this is not the case
Isn't Asik only going to count 8mil toward the cap??
If so why are people arguing as if his entire 14mil is what we will be filling our cap space up with?
According to what? he averaged pretty much 12 rebounds per game over 82 games..
I dont understand how people think blatche is better, we don't need offense at our front court.. we need defense and rebounding and big bodies and thats exactly what Asik brings.
This all assumption but I like Asik because he is a man that has something to prove. He was handed a big contract as a reward for his great play and then was pushed away because of the Howard acquisition. He clearly has a huge chip on his shoulder based on his recent behavior and has shown to have elite rebounding and defensive capabilities. That's a potent combination to have on your side.
Blatche strikes me as having questionable maturity and wants to be more on the offensive side then he is and isn't going to play defense nearly as well as Asik and that's what we need with Ryno and Davis.
Unless something changed,a league source said 10 days ago the Pelicans won't pursue signing Andray Blatche in free agency.
— John Reid (@JohnReid64) July 1, 2014
The first rounder worried me too. Especially how it is rumored to be crafted. That is my big hesitation.
I made the argument before and of course was piled on but I think we will struggle to make the playoffs even in a best case scenario. The west is ridiculously stacked and barring injuries teams like the Thunder, Spurs, Clippers, Rockets, Mavericks and Warriors are basically playoff shoe-ins. Phoenix, Memphis and Portland both have a stronger case based on chemistry, experience, health and history to make it over us too.
I fear a lot of people on this board and Demps are underrating our competition far too much and once again we may just give up another potential asset that could damage us long term.
This would make no sense whatsoever. It did before we picked up asik, but now?
This aggravates me about fans.... Let's have hope... What the point of being a fan if you just gonna put the team down.... So what what the west is stack...if you don't like it go start a petition to go move this team to the East... What's a fan with no hope this team is definitely a playoff team... You are looking at other teams we are just as talented maybe even more....look at how we match up against other teams now that we have a center...
@JohnReid64: Unless something changed,a league source said 10 days ago the Pelicans won't pursue signing Andray Blatche in free agency.