no, rondofan, alanspam and alansmells are different. alansmells is my loving brother making a name up just to make fun of me in the digital world. i'm sorry he defaced this wonderful blog with his evil slime.
as to the louis williams question, now it's pretty moot without much money and a sign-trade being pretty unimaginable.
i guess my original thought process was, instead of a glue guy as a sixth man like posey, maybe we could go with an offensive threat who could really keep the pressure on the other team (maybe similar to the thought process behind looking at maggette). i thought williams had that along with the ability as an improving PG to keep the offense going much better than we had last year with rondo on the bench. he would seem to be a real strong sixth man candidate, potentially a starter for some team soon, and as some people say, maybe a star.
interestingly, after our signings, the team has its 5 starters and then a few 7th 8th-type-men, one of whom will possibly step up. if we had gotten williams, with him my guess is we would have had a legit sixth man type. in that case, however, we probably couldn't have resigned house, but still could have gotten TA.
so, if getting him even would have worked (and as everyone says, philly might match any amount of years all the way up to the MLE), at this point in the offseason, we could be a similar looking team. the differences might have been we could have basically swapped out house for williams, had a higher luxury tax, and had probably zero or near-zero of our MLE left. does that make us better? if so, does it make us better enough to pay an extra several million dollars? and does williams even have enough position-flexibility to play more than 15 minutes backing up rondo? just a brain exercise at this point, but i'm still intrigued. i don't know, i think i've hit one of those mini-obsessions.
i appreciate multiple posters worries that having all young pg's on the roster could have been a problem. shoulda thought of that - thanks. at the same time, it also looks like we won't sign an experienced pg this year. though house is expereinced and can handle a lot of point, i don't think house really fits the bill as, say, a mentor to the young pg's. so as it stands, it looks like we won't bring in an experienced pg, no?
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