i watched his highlight video today. he doesn't impress me that much. i mean for the 8th pick i'd pick stauskas instead. klay's gonna want to be paid. we'd ooking at adding another high priced guy to the stable. cuz, gay?, thompson. that's alot of cap committed. we could have more flexibility with a younger guy on a rookie contract.
I think this line of thinking will have to stop at some stage! We have been thinink along those lines for 8 years and it has not gotten us anywhere.
We have our franchise piece and its time to put together a team around him that is competing now, not in 5 years time. Hopefully we can keep Gay and if not, I am hoping we can get a genuine #2 and #3 to surround Cousins with. We do not have the luxury of waiting around for these kids to mature. We need impact players now! We cannot afford for a rookie to mature. We keep making the same mistakes over and over again. Last year this board was very confident that McLemore can come in and have an immediate impact and easily replace Reke. That worked out well for us didn't it?
I take some comfort in the fact that front office is very willing to trade the pick for a veteran. It tells me that they understand the urgency of the situation. They don't want to wait for the kids to develo. They want production now. Now with Cousins, Gay and K. Thompson, if you surround them with the right type of players, you have a play off team. You have to pay someone. Gone are the days of getting Peja like or B-Jax like bargains! Good solid player are borderlinemax players these days. Its the trend of the league and we cannot afford to be too selective at this particular point. We have some bad contracts on the roster. Some inheritted, some the doing of this very front office (Landry anyone?!) and these should not be the deciding factor in constructing a team, because if they are, we enter a constant cycle of mediocrity!
Klay Thompson is a known product. He would fit well here and would be benefitted a great deal playing off Cousins. There has been reported interest from PDA and if he is on the market, you make that move now while there is a chance. Reports were that we would go after him when he enters FA. Since Klay will be a RFA we would have needed to overpay anyway in order to scare away GSW from matching which likely would have been a max contract.
Money will need to be spent at some point in time so might as well do it when you have a chance to get a player and improve. There is no such thing as pefection so make a move while the sun shines. Klay is FAR FAR away from a max player but the market will dictate a pretty good salary for him....more than he is truly worth but to some teams he is worth more than to others. To us, he would be worth a fair bit. He is everything the front office hopes Ben McLemore turns into and he is still only 24.
We need proven, young veteran players and we need them now....no we needed them as lonh as 3 years ago. Last thing we need is a kid who might or might not be a productive NBA player.
