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But you know that is not right for Brockman... it's like "If you love someone, set them free.", you know?
I'd rather be like Lenny, and love him and squeeze him and keep him forever.
But you know that is not right for Brockman... it's like "If you love someone, set them free.", you know?
I'm just as confused because teams can retract their qualifying offer by July 23. So it's not just about letting him go to the Bucks. It's was either pay him peanuts for insurance or trade him for a 2nd round pick. I'd rather have Brockman - even if he wasn't playing.
OK, I get why a trade was made, but why Darnell Jackson?
So in terms of signed players we have 11:
Evans, Beno, Sloan, Garcia, Casspi, Greene, Cousins, Dalembert, Landry, Thompson, Whiteside.
It will be intresting how GP fills out this roster.
I'll miss you Brocky poo.
I just don't know how your agent expects you to find more minutes in Milwaukee than here...
Sloan's not guaranteed, right?
Well, look at it this way - we could have gotten practically nothing (2nd rounder) or literally nothing.
Alternative 3: we could have kept him.
It really is a weird situation. Milwaukee, being over the salary cap, couldn't have even given Brockman an offer sheet if I've got it right. (Veteran's minimum, yes, but the QO was over vet minimum.) But instead they propose a sign-and-trade, sending back an unguaranteed contract and a second-rounder (practically nothing) when we have no risk of losing him. This seems to imply one of three things:
1. We regret giving Brockman the QO and are now trying to pawn him off. Seems unlikely to me. Now we will probably have to sign an emergency big man, and I don't think there's anybody that stands head and shoulders above Brockman. We may as well have kept him.
2. We are trying to "do the right thing" for Brockman, sending him somewhere he's going to play. Well, he was the #6 big man in our rotation, and I would guess he's going to be the #6 big man in Milwaukee's rotation behind Bogut, Gooden, Ilyasova, Mbah a Moute and Sanders. And Tiny Gallon (unsigned) may be in the mix there as well. I don't think he's going to see much more floor time in Milwaukee than he would have here. So are we really helping him out?
3. We really believe the package we are getting is preferable to Brockman. I don't think the mid-second-rounder is better than Brockman, so do we actually value Jackson? If we end up cutting his unguaranteed money, apparently not.
So, if (as seems likely to me) we could have kept him, we would have been perfectly happy keeping him, we're not really helping his career, and we're not getting good value back...why?
i have that bad feeling that sloan is gonna be on the kings roster when next season starts, i hope my feeling is completely wrong......I dont think so...and I hope to GOD not! He really isnt what we need, and reminds me too much of Jason Hart. I am REALLY wondering what GP's got up his sleave, if anything. This move makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Sad to see Brockness out..
But Petrie can somehow turn this 2nd rounder to picking a future allstar, so go figure![]()
I think once they saw they Whiteside could do everything Brockman can do, plus block shots and has a lot more potential, that having Brockman on the roster was kind of pointless for the Kings and Brockman. Now the Kings have more cap space (providing they waive Darnell) for signing Adam Morrison and Quincy Douby. The second round pick is just fodder, but could mean something knowing Geoff.
I think once they saw they Whiteside could do everything Brockman can do, plus block shots and has a lot more potential, that having Brockman on the roster was kind of pointless for the Kings and Brockman. Now the Kings have more cap space (providing they waive Darnell) for signing Adam Morrison and Quincy Douby. The second round pick is just fodder, but could mean something knowing Geoff.
About the emergency big man: normal balance on a 12 man roster would be 5 bigs 7 littles. We have our 5 bigs -- Daly, Cousins, Thompson, Landry, Whiteside -- and right now we have 5 "littles" (Reke, Beno, Cisco, Omri, Donte). So with Brockman or without we already needed to sign 2 more "littles", and Brockman's spot was always just going to be the 13th man to reach the league minimum roster size. That 13th man can be pretty much anything -- big, little, who knows. We didn't move him to be able to take a 13th man who was a little -- we haven't even found our 6th and 7th littles yet, let alone our 8th.
i have that bad feeling that sloan is gonna be on the kings roster when next season starts, i hope my feeling is completely wrong......