It's Time Maloofs ... Fire Petrie (chapter 2)

[AleksandarN]

Anybets that if Petrie does get fired one of the Maloofs would then be the GM if not in name atleast behind the scenes.

 

[fnordius]

At least we have a chip as opposed to nothing. Just letting guys go without getting anything back is not good policy.

An ender is always a valuable commodity; many teams are anxious to let them go without getting anything back. But this subject has already been talked to death here, and there's major doubt about whether the Peja trade was a Petrie decision at all, so let's move on.

Well, he was an all-star at one time, and as of last summer a member of the USA team....it's not like the guy was a bum...until recently

Nobody's arguing that it was categorically dumb to sign him. The problem is that Petrie overdid it. Brad should not be ours, at that price, for another 3 years. Exceedingly few 34 year old centers are worth $12M+ a year, and Brad's not one of them.

Let's see what he does after this signing. It has to be a 2-parter or a means of pissing off KT and/or Miller.

There's where we agree (about a trade, anyway, it's never worth $18M just to pee someone off). If he unloads 2-3 veteran bigs before the season starts, it will be possible to see some sense in it, and the worst thing he'd be accused of would be overpaying for Moore. But if he's worked out something definite, and isn't just inking the guy and hoping that everything will eventually work out, then we should be seeing at least one big traded within the next week. So we'll know very soon whether this is going to have a bright side that's more than luck, or if it's merely another expensive, impromptou bandaid job along the lines of Salmons.

Just for the record, I'm not on the "fire Petrie" bandwagon, if only because I worry about who we'd get as a replacement. I'm sitting on the fence and trying to give the guy a chance, he just hasn't been making it easy these last few years. I'll be keeping a close eye on the sports page over the next couple of days, to see if he pulls it out or not.

 

[fnordius]

Anybets that if Petrie does get fired one of the Maloofs would then be the GM if not in name atleast behind the scenes.

Since we can't tell how true that is now, I doubt we'd be any more able to tell with a different GM.

 

[gunks]

Maybe Cuban will buy the team from the Maloofs and fire Petrie?

 

[Superman]

And hence you will note the word LIMITED credit (as opposed to none).

I however do not write blank checks just because he's the Kings GM. We cut the guy and had absolutely no control over where he went. Its just luck he was still there for us to pickup 3 months later. It was good invite after the draft, but when you then dump that asset out beside the road the fact that its still there when you come back to pick it up is sheer luck, and none of your doing.

Hence limited credit. Got the initial move right, then were shaky once more and had to get lucky. Better than no credit. Worse than actually believing in the guy and keeping control of him.

It's still just Justin Williams. I like the guy as much as anybody else (well, maybe not ANYBODY; Musselman apparently thinks that he's won an MVP award), but he's not going to make or break a team, especially a team as bad as ours is.

And I kind of think of Mikki Moore as a slightly less raw Justin Williams. I think we overpaid for the guy, but it's not the end of the world. It's not like we gave him the full MLE for 5 years or anything.

 

[Superman]

Ummm, Peja's contract wasn't bloated at all. He had been hard to find a trade match for earlier, because there weren't very many players that were as underpaid as him. Plus his contract was ending: we could have just waited until the end of the season and it would have been $0.

It is now, and, at the risk of misrepresenting someone else, I think that's what dude12 meant. Especially when you think about all the talk about giving Peja a max deal from Joe Maloof the summer before he got traded.

 

[kupman]

It's still just Justin Williams. I like the guy as much as anybody else (well, maybe not ANYBODY; Musselman apparently thinks that he's won an MVP award), but he's not going to make or break a team, especially a team as bad as ours is.

Good to hear you say that. I thought I was the only one around here that thought the Justin hype was well past over-hyped. Don't get me wrong. I am hoping that the guy comes into his own and becomes a big contributor for us. But I also realize that may never happen.