Pietrus has already agreed to sign with someone

[Cman]

Maurice Evans, Quinton Ross, James Jones and Matt Barnes will all still be available

I am familiar with Barnes and J. Jones.  I like Barnes a lot, a very scrappy player who would be great off the bench (for the right price).

I am much less familiar with Evans and Ross.

[cordobes]

Pietrus is not the defensive stopper who need and he's dumb. Not giving Posey the full MLE to waste it on Pietrus would be insane.

Our best option after Posey is James Jones, IMO. I'd rather take Ross and his non-existent offensive game than Pietrus.

I am higher on Pietrus than you are, but I agree that Jones would be a better target.  I also think that Barnes would be an excellent target.  He brings much of the same intangibles as Posey, and I think if you put him on a better team, he would be the one getting the offers of the full MLE.

Lot of people are saying Barnes is a system guy only, and that on another squad he'd go all Jerred Jefferies on you

I don't see how he is any more of a system guy than Posey or say, Bruce Bowen.  He is a big wing, who is a good defender, can shoot, and does all of the little things. 

And for the record, I would take Jefferies in a second, who I think is a very good player, stuck in a terrible situation.

Barnes is not a good long-range shooter. He went bananas in a single season, the single one he shot above 30% from downtown, like many other guys. His second best %3pt per season is worse than Posey's third worse season. Also, he isn't an elite wing defender, like Posey, Bowen or Ross. He's more an enforcer and a hustler. I agree about the little things. But Barnes is more a poor man's Kirilenko, who's at his best playing PF in a smallball team. That's why people say, a bit incorrectly, that he's a system player.