No Center Help From Draft, What FA Big Man Can We Get?

[zerophase]

i'm a pretty big fan of kristic. theo i'm still showing animosity towards because of his "injury"... yea... his injury that heals after being traded to detroit. not a fan of any player who was on a rivalry team, aka lakers, atlanta, detroit, or cavs. unless the cavs give us west back, who we really don't need now anyways.

[NothinButNet]

Scott Pollard SUUUUUUCKS.

Genius, Pollard does not suck.  11 year vets are 11 year vets for a reason.  Even a guy like Blount doesnt suck, he's just a a locker room killer, and doesn't always put forth an effort.  Yeah, some guys hang around for a long time unexplicably (Olowokandi), but that is the rare exception.  A healthy Pollard is a GREAT backup center.  He's as physical a post defender as you're going to find in the league and I think he's still got something left in the tank.  If he had been healthy going into the playoffs, I don't know if we even bother going after PJ, and I think we'd still be champs.

[2short]

Scott Pollard SUUUUUUCKS.

Genius, Pollard does not suck.  11 year vets are 11 year vets for a reason.  Even a guy like Blount doesnt suck, he's just a a locker room killer, and doesn't always put forth an effort.  Yeah, some guys hang around for a long time unexplicably (Olowokandi), but that is the rare exception.  A healthy Pollard is a GREAT backup center.  He's as physical a post defender as you're going to find in the league and I think he's still got something left in the tank.  If he had been healthy going into the playoffs, I don't know if we even bother going after PJ, and I think we'd still be champs.

I agree completely except for one thing 
Blount really does suck

[jaketwice]

Scott Pollard SUUUUUUCKS.

Genius, Pollard does not suck.  11 year vets are 11 year vets for a reason.  Even a guy like Blount doesnt suck, he's just a a locker room killer, and doesn't always put forth an effort.  Yeah, some guys hang around for a long time unexplicably (Olowokandi), but that is the rare exception.  A healthy Pollard is a GREAT backup center.  He's as physical a post defender as you're going to find in the league and I think he's still got something left in the tank.  If he had been healthy going into the playoffs, I don't know if we even bother going after PJ, and I think we'd still be champs.

I agree completely except for one thing 
Blount really does suck

Unless you are a mirror - in which case he blows little kisses.

[Evantime34]

Diop, Brown, and Foster in that order all near or around the Bi-annual exception/min

[rondofan1255]

Maybe Garnett could try to enforce ideas into Blount's head.

Oh wait....



Diop FTW!

[keith]

PJ will be back for one more go around.

[stny]

I would take a shot with either Kwaeme Brown or Francisco Elson. Watch the situation in Seattle and Portland as they are overloaded with big men.

[Roy Hobbs]

Diop, Brown, and Foster in that order all near or around the Bi-annual exception/min

Diop and Foster will both command well over the MLE.  Foster may opt out, but if he does, it won't be to take a $4 million pay cut.

[Brickowski]

Diop, Brown, and Foster in that order all near or around the Bi-annual exception/min

Diop and Foster will both command well over the MLE.  Foster may opt out, but if he does, it won't be to take a $4 million pay cut.

I don't think either one will command more than the MLE, and Foster won't opt out.

There are only a handful of teams that can pay more than the MLE (except in sign-and-trade scenarios) and all of those teams suck.  Diop might be willing to go to a rebuilding situation, but Foster won't.

I kind of like Primoz Brezec or Earl Barron. You can get a servicable backup center with the biannual exception.  I'm not too worried.

[ManUp]

Kurt Thomas? He's still got game and would definitely bring what we're losing with PJ.

[Brickowski]

Whatever happened to Raphael Araujo?  And who can forget the Kandiman?  Has he retired?

[soap07]

Has Mourning said officially he's coming back next year?

[Chris]

Whatever happened to Raphael Araujo?  And who can forget the Kandiman?  Has he retired?

I still can't quite figure out why Araujo completely washed out of the league like he did.  He was big, had good feet and hands, was incredibly tough, and seemed like a relatively smart player.

[Brickowski]

Whatever happened to Raphael Araujo?  And who can forget the Kandiman?  Has he retired?

I still can't quite figure out why Araujo completely washed out of the league like he did. 

1. No offensive skills.
2, Foul Prone.
3, No lateral mobility