Hudson can play (or not... Hudson waived)

[Roy Hobbs]

to be fair Powe made the team years ago when we didn't have a championship squad.  

I just would rather have had 5 euros than Baby, Hudson, Pruitt, Giddens, and Walker.

Even if the Euros don't pan out we can probably sign guys like this anyway and to less money too.

I find it hard to believe that you could include Baby in that list. Davis definitely has high end rotational player talent.

Oh I totally agree with you. He's phenomenal value where he was picked. An excellent example of a high 2nd rounder being better than a low 1rst.

It's just that I said I'm at the point I'm willing to give up on picking players that we try to add to the team right away once you get to the lower first round and I can't pixck and choose so I realize I gotta give him up.

Well, it's not like the various misses in the second round have cost us all that much.  We've paid Walker, Hudson, and Pruitt less than $3 million combined (or one year of Scalabrine).  Yes, that's money that could have been saved, but Danny's approach to second rounders has also landed us Powe, BBD, and Gomes.  I think a $3 million investment is worth that kind of potential.

[KCattheStripe]

Things like this just make me think once you get past a certain point in the draft you should always always draft Euros, not pay any money if they don't come and just hope you hit the next Scola or Gasol, cause between this, Giddens, Walker, and Pruitt I think Erhiden has been the best pick

Or draft Wesley Matthews.

You bang that drum a little much. Not so tough to beat out nobody. He literally had to beat out nobody to make it into the Jazz rotation.

*Bang* Wesley Matthews *Bang*  Wesley *Bang* Matthews *Bang*

[scoop]

Erden is a bum who will never play in the NBA.

The times of a player like Ginobili falling to the late 2nd round are long gone. As the times of a guy like Skita going 5th. Teams now make a much better scouting job, it's not only the Spurs any more. There were some good European players in the last draft, but they were all off the board when the Cs picked. Guys like Kravtsov and Vidmar are probably the best 2009 draft eligible European players who went undrafted. If they ever play in the NBA, it'll be as a 4th/5th big man.

[Eja117]

to be fair Powe made the team years ago when we didn't have a championship squad.  

I just would rather have had 5 euros than Baby, Hudson, Pruitt, Giddens, and Walker.

Even if the Euros don't pan out we can probably sign guys like this anyway and to less money too.

I find it hard to believe that you could include Baby in that list. Davis definitely has high end rotational player talent.

Oh I totally agree with you. He's phenomenal value where he was picked. An excellent example of a high 2nd rounder being better than a low 1rst.

It's just that I said I'm at the point I'm willing to give up on picking players that we try to add to the team right away once you get to the lower first round and I can't pixck and choose so I realize I gotta give him up.

Well, it's not like the various misses in the second round have cost us all that much.  We've paid Walker, Hudson, and Pruitt less than $3 million combined (or one year of Scalabrine).  Yes, that's money that could have been saved, but Danny's approach to second rounders has also landed us Powe, BBD, and Gomes.  I think a $3 million investment is worth that kind of potential.

True. On the other hand M Gasol was on the board when he picked BBD.

[Fafnir]

to be fair Powe made the team years ago when we didn't have a championship squad.  

I just would rather have had 5 euros than Baby, Hudson, Pruitt, Giddens, and Walker.

Even if the Euros don't pan out we can probably sign guys like this anyway and to less money too.

I find it hard to believe that you could include Baby in that list. Davis definitely has high end rotational player talent.

Oh I totally agree with you. He's phenomenal value where he was picked. An excellent example of a high 2nd rounder being better than a low 1rst.

It's just that I said I'm at the point I'm willing to give up on picking players that we try to add to the team right away once you get to the lower first round and I can't pixck and choose so I realize I gotta give him up.

Well, it's not like the various misses in the second round have cost us all that much.  We've paid Walker, Hudson, and Pruitt less than $3 million combined (or one year of Scalabrine).  Yes, that's money that could have been saved, but Danny's approach to second rounders has also landed us Powe, BBD, and Gomes.  I think a $3 million investment is worth that kind of potential.

True. On the other hand M Gasol was on the board when he picked BBD.

Gasol made an atypical massive improvement to get to his current level of play. He wasn't that hot as a rookie and wasn't a great prospect.

[Eja117]

to be fair Powe made the team years ago when we didn't have a championship squad.  

I just would rather have had 5 euros than Baby, Hudson, Pruitt, Giddens, and Walker.

Even if the Euros don't pan out we can probably sign guys like this anyway and to less money too.

I find it hard to believe that you could include Baby in that list. Davis definitely has high end rotational player talent.

Oh I totally agree with you. He's phenomenal value where he was picked. An excellent example of a high 2nd rounder being better than a low 1rst.

It's just that I said I'm at the point I'm willing to give up on picking players that we try to add to the team right away once you get to the lower first round and I can't pixck and choose so I realize I gotta give him up.

Well, it's not like the various misses in the second round have cost us all that much.  We've paid Walker, Hudson, and Pruitt less than $3 million combined (or one year of Scalabrine).  Yes, that's money that could have been saved, but Danny's approach to second rounders has also landed us Powe, BBD, and Gomes.  I think a $3 million investment is worth that kind of potential.

True. On the other hand M Gasol was on the board when he picked BBD.

Gasol made an atypical massive improvement to get to his current level of play. He wasn't that hot as a rookie and wasn't a great prospect.

True, but you could say similar things about Gomes and Powe and could say BBD regressed

[KCattheStripe]

to be fair Powe made the team years ago when we didn't have a championship squad.  

I just would rather have had 5 euros than Baby, Hudson, Pruitt, Giddens, and Walker.

Even if the Euros don't pan out we can probably sign guys like this anyway and to less money too.

I find it hard to believe that you could include Baby in that list. Davis definitely has high end rotational player talent.

Oh I totally agree with you. He's phenomenal value where he was picked. An excellent example of a high 2nd rounder being better than a low 1rst.

It's just that I said I'm at the point I'm willing to give up on picking players that we try to add to the team right away once you get to the lower first round and I can't pixck and choose so I realize I gotta give him up.

Well, it's not like the various misses in the second round have cost us all that much.  We've paid Walker, Hudson, and Pruitt less than $3 million combined (or one year of Scalabrine).  Yes, that's money that could have been saved, but Danny's approach to second rounders has also landed us Powe, BBD, and Gomes.  I think a $3 million investment is worth that kind of potential.

True. On the other hand M Gasol was on the board when he picked BBD.

Gasol made an atypical massive improvement to get to his current level of play. He wasn't that hot as a rookie and wasn't a great prospect.

Atypical for a young big man? To be exceptionally efficient your rookie year (after being MVP of the Spanish League) to being a great big man?

[Fan from VT]

Is Von Wafer still a free agent? I'd take him right now.

[Who]

Is Von Wafer still a free agent? I'd take him right now.

Failed his medical for the Grizzlies. He's still available.

I'd be interested in him too.

[Rondo_is_better]

If we just did this to be retarded...I'm gonna be annoyed. There better be a [dang] good plan behind this, or I'm gonna be p---ed. Redundancy.

[Cman]

Surprised that he was waived.  I agree with other posters that Lue or some other player might be signed.

[CbrewEra]

I think Danny is getting ready to make a move or PreParing for buy outs, as we were full with 15 with Lester.

[celticsclay]

. . . I talked to him about his contract and he had no idea whether his deal was guaranteed or whether he would be waived.

"I let my agent handle all of that," he said this morning.

It's shocking to me that an NBA player could be so oblivious to something like this.

I don't think this move is all that surprising, assuming that Hudson's deal is non-guaranteed.  It saves the team a bunch of money and opens up a roster spot.  I was pleasantly surprised by Hudson's play, but ultimately, he wasn't going to contribute much this year.

With Eddie having the flu, and Quise banged up. Who are our second and third string pg's?

[Jon]

Gotta say that with the way some people talked him up, I'm surprised that there aren't more posters calling for Danny's head.

That said, I wouldn't be one of them.  More than likely, if Danny has a hankering to get Hudson back in the next couple of years, he'll be able to.  I don't see him getting a long term deal anywhere and it's quite possible no one picks him up.  Even more likely (though certainly not set in stone), Hudson will be out of the NBA in 3 years and no one will care. 

[Reggie's Ghost]

For the record I was dead wrong on this one, and I am surprised and disappointed.  I recognize that it's not a move that has any significance to this season, but I was a fan of the guy and hope they bring him back on a non-guaranteed deal for the remainder of the season...