I don't really understand what is going on with the Bucks. Granted, I haven't truly cared about any of this since about 2002, but the landscape of the NBA confuses the shit out of me. Let's retrace this thing back a few years:
1) We give someone named Bobby Simmons a crapload of money.
2) He immediately gets hurt and plays like 4 games for us in 2 years.
3) Due to the money spent on Simmons, the resulting injury and other injuries, we crap out and get a top 5 pick.
4) We spend the pick on Yi even though he made it clear he didn't want to come here, and the Bucks knew nothing about him other than he could work the shit out of a folding chair in workout tapes.
5) We completely give up on Yi after one year, and trade he and Bobby to the Nets for Richard Jefferson.
6) Everyone gets hurt again, and we decide that losing money like every other team isn't worth it any more, so we trade Jefferson for three corpses.
7) Next year we may have like $1 billion in cap room.
So where are we going from here? Is there anyone on our team that is good enough to be the best player on an NBA team? I would argue no.
For the record, I completely agree with Bear on Sessions and Villanueva. Sessions cieling is Redd (who we already have on our team). Villa has already hit his ceiling, and will totally stop caring again next year. But for them to decide to gut the entire team and to rely on draft picks is both exhausting and near impossible.
I can't recall any team that was able to pull this off unless you count Orlando in the mid-90's, and that was only because they lucked out and got Shaq and Penny in the draft (and could've had Webber instead of Penny too). Oklahoma City and Portland appear to be close to making some noise based on similar roster moves, but they may never get there. Teams like the Clips and Grizzlies have been trying to do this for years and have failed miserably.
So what do we do? The obvious answer is to hire the Sports Guy as GM. He seems to know everything about the NBA. I'm clearly not smart enough to figure out all the cap ramifications. And I'm not that good at evaluating NBA talent. But it seems to me that if you get rid of everyone for expiring contracts, you better have someone that resembles an NBA player to replace them. And right now, I don't think the Bucks do. And LeBron, D-Wade and Melo aren't stepping foot in Milwaukee no matter what. Bombing out for the next three years guaranteed and hoping for high picks is stupid. You need to mix the draft with veterans, although hovering around the 8 seed every year isn't going to get it done. You need to pick your spots to bomb (like the Spurs did when they got Duncan), and load up on good vets when you can to make a run or two.
Actually, I think old man Kohl should sell the team to someone who wants to spend money. I'm not saying Herb doesn't because lord knows he has lost enough on the team. But realistically, if the Bucks don't get out of the semi-shithole that is the Bradley Center pretty soon. They may not be in Milwaukee long. Which wouldn't bother me that much other than I like the idea of a team in Milwaukee.
I'm not sure what my point is other than the trade doesn't make me like the Bucks any more, I'll tell you that much.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Hammond is a genius
In case you haven't heard, the Bucks have traded Richard Jefferson to the Spurs for Bruce Bowen, Kurt Thomas and Fabricio Oberto. Their combined age? 108.
Their combined salary that is coming off the books after next year? $11,300,000. Richard Jefferson was due to make 14.2 million this year, so we're already saving 3 million now and 15 million that was due to him the year after. Some folks are already barking about how the Bucks will probably cut one or two of the players they've acquired as well, since their contracts are apparently only partially guaranteed, so we'd end up saving even more cash against the luxury tax this year, but I see that as un-necessary.
Here's what I think the Bucks should do. They can keep any of these 3 players or dump them, who cares really, the only reason they're here is to free up future cap space. I say we pass on both Villanueva and Sessions. Why? They're both mediocre players that are going to get over paid by us or some other team, why put ourselves into another Bobby Simmons type of contract when we can probably get comparable production for much cheaper? Plus there's no way the hairless wonder doesn't go back to dogging it after he gets his contract.
So we just lost RJ and Sessions this year, we might match a CV offer and keep him around one more year, but definitely nothing long term. We would probably draft a PG and have another year of Ridnour starting basketball games for us. Bogut, CV, Mbah a Moute, Redd, Ridnour with Bell, Alexander, and whomever we draft off the bench, plus the nursing home crew and Gadzuric. This team is probably good enough to get 30 wins, so we're gonna have to hope for another injury or two, really. We gotta hope for a shitbomb next year, drop us into a top 3 pick.
After this coming year, if we keep CV for one more year, we're going to be dropping his, Ridnours, and the complete nursing home trio's salary. That's going to be a complete number, minusing Jefferson's contract, Ridnour and CV, of 25 million off the books. Now I'm definitely not saying we're going to get Lebron, or even Melo or Bosh, maybe D-Wade?(ha). But we will have the room and the next year another 25 million comes off with Redd and Gadzuric.
We aren't losing a whole lot of talent, white PG, a probably listless CV after a contract and an unable to defend scoring SG, but we'll clear a cool 50 million off the books in the next two years and if we really bomb next year, which is definitely possible, we'll have a top 3 pick. If we don't get any big name from the 2010 FA class to bite, which I doubt we will, wait it out one more year, bomb again maybe? Back to back top 3 pick opportunities and now we got about 40 million sitting around in cap that we can work with after we evaluate the talent we've drafted onto this team.
I really wanna see what this team looks like in 2-3 years with all these moves. If it's Sessions, Redd, Alexander, CV and Bogut, I'm fucking done with it. If Hammonds uses this money intelligently, we might just have a shot at building something here.
Their combined salary that is coming off the books after next year? $11,300,000. Richard Jefferson was due to make 14.2 million this year, so we're already saving 3 million now and 15 million that was due to him the year after. Some folks are already barking about how the Bucks will probably cut one or two of the players they've acquired as well, since their contracts are apparently only partially guaranteed, so we'd end up saving even more cash against the luxury tax this year, but I see that as un-necessary.
Here's what I think the Bucks should do. They can keep any of these 3 players or dump them, who cares really, the only reason they're here is to free up future cap space. I say we pass on both Villanueva and Sessions. Why? They're both mediocre players that are going to get over paid by us or some other team, why put ourselves into another Bobby Simmons type of contract when we can probably get comparable production for much cheaper? Plus there's no way the hairless wonder doesn't go back to dogging it after he gets his contract.
So we just lost RJ and Sessions this year, we might match a CV offer and keep him around one more year, but definitely nothing long term. We would probably draft a PG and have another year of Ridnour starting basketball games for us. Bogut, CV, Mbah a Moute, Redd, Ridnour with Bell, Alexander, and whomever we draft off the bench, plus the nursing home crew and Gadzuric. This team is probably good enough to get 30 wins, so we're gonna have to hope for another injury or two, really. We gotta hope for a shitbomb next year, drop us into a top 3 pick.
After this coming year, if we keep CV for one more year, we're going to be dropping his, Ridnours, and the complete nursing home trio's salary. That's going to be a complete number, minusing Jefferson's contract, Ridnour and CV, of 25 million off the books. Now I'm definitely not saying we're going to get Lebron, or even Melo or Bosh, maybe D-Wade?(ha). But we will have the room and the next year another 25 million comes off with Redd and Gadzuric.
We aren't losing a whole lot of talent, white PG, a probably listless CV after a contract and an unable to defend scoring SG, but we'll clear a cool 50 million off the books in the next two years and if we really bomb next year, which is definitely possible, we'll have a top 3 pick. If we don't get any big name from the 2010 FA class to bite, which I doubt we will, wait it out one more year, bomb again maybe? Back to back top 3 pick opportunities and now we got about 40 million sitting around in cap that we can work with after we evaluate the talent we've drafted onto this team.
I really wanna see what this team looks like in 2-3 years with all these moves. If it's Sessions, Redd, Alexander, CV and Bogut, I'm fucking done with it. If Hammonds uses this money intelligently, we might just have a shot at building something here.
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