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Here are the details. Years three and four are not guaranteed, so the club is not overtly exposed.
https://www.spotrac.com/nba/new-orle...arshall-70704/
This is a great signing and nice pick up for the Pels. I'm really happy for Naji - He earned this contract.
He is already a legitimate rotation guy with real talent. He's not a Kenrich Williams. Has a complete floor game on both sides of the court that will only get better despite his age.
He did all these things at Xavier as well against some good competition.
Great pickup.
He also makes Josh expendable.
Well done Naji, he earned it.
Just another Kiwi basking in the reflected glory of Steven Adams....bask bask...
I agree with you....
By the way, I really think this age thing is overrated, if not outright lunacy. If we draft a 19 year old with the idea that he may be special in five years and then we lose them in six, were they really a good selection for a small market team in the first place? (Think about JAX's trajectory) I have no problem whatsoever in selecting a 22 year old who has competed in college for four years and will not require enrollment in a Remedial Basketball for Dummies Class before they are playable. Remember, there are a lot more Dragan Benders, Marquese Chriss', Markell Fultz', Mo Bamas, Jabari Parkers, and Jahlil Okafor (all young lottery picks), then there are Zion Williamsons, Luka Doncics, or Anthony Davis'. No doubt about it, far more "young 'uns" don't work out than do.
With this in mind, if we end up keeping our pick and draft between 10 - 12, my selection would be 22 year old, Corey Kispert. I have to believe he already knows a great deal about how to play the game and his learning curve won't be as steep as a 19 year old's would be at that pick.
I'm not super locked on Davion Mitchell either unless he slips to the end of the 1st and we jump up to take him.
Congrats to Naji. Falls under the ?makes winning plays? category. Hopefully he can have the same impact Quincy did in his second stint (the injury free stint anyways). Good deal on a minimum.
Last edited by JJackisangry; 05-07-2021 at 06:03 AM.
Not saying you are wrong, but who will back up Ingram next year...Naji or JHart?
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Will NAW be the first "2" off the bench or will it be JHart?
I can see him coming back, but all those rebounds he's accumulated might make him an attractive target in Free Agency. So attractive in fact that it might price him off the team depending on the other offseason moves the team might make.
Would you match an eight figure a year salary?
Nor would I.
Hart has value but he is not capital V Valuable. There's no reason to suspect that you can't get his production, or 90% of his production, for under $10m a year. The only thing he's notably good at is rebounding, and we have a system/roster that rebounds at a high rate even without him.
Plus, a lot of Hart's rebounds are of the uncontested ''there's a rebound, anyone could grab it but he runs to get it instead of letting it go to whoever is closest'' variety, which is fine and it doesn't hurt the team or anything, but it does mean that just looking at his raw rebounding numbers is a bit misleading. If you look at his contested rebound numbers (that is, the boards he ''fights'' for) he actually has a lower Contested REB% than Naji anyway (26.8% for Hart, 29.2% for Naji), so I don't think replacing Hart with Naji is like, ruinous for your rebounding capacity as a team.
Basketball.
Not sure that is fair. Contested rebounds is such a vague evaluation. When another player boxes out well for a teammate to get the rebound, likely does not show up as contested, but no less of a rebound. That is what a team is supposed to do. Hart is a very good rebounder. That stat means very little.
I'm surprised no one has added the fact Josh Hart is injury prone. He hasn't played 70 or more games a season yet. I get that it's a tough schedule but that would also be a factor if some other team wants to pay him 12-15mil. I prob would pass as well esp now w/ this deal and if we can get shooters to surround Zion w/ in FA.
I'll be honest, Hart seems like a great teammate and he's a good player but I dont want him back at the price he'll demand. Guys with his skill set need to be good shooters. Especially for this team.
Now if he was a good shooter he could ask for a lot more money, so if you think he can be above league average from 3 pay him. I'm just skeptical personally.
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