Jon Brockman Signing

[AriesMar27]

Frankly, I think you do.

no, i just want to see this team make moves that will help them win games now and help build a better team in the future.... trading for nocioni was not one of those moves... signing beno was not one of those moves.... trading webber was not one of those moves and i hated it from day one. trading jwill for bibby was nice, eventhough i was a big jwill fan i knew that we would be a bteer team in the long run with bibby and we were. artest for peja was a lateral move... we would have been better off keeping peja and not re-signing him. losing adelman was a bad move, replacing him with musselman was worse and replacing him with theus was just as bad. until he was fired and replaced temporarily by what was his name? exactly..... and now we have westphal to replace that guy.

this team has been on a downward spiral since the day petrie signed anthony peeler to a 2 yr deal the year before the expansion draft. that was the first time that i got a chance to see petrie plan ahead for the future, we all knew it was coming i was looking forward to seeing a new team being created and hoped that none of my kings players would go to that team. he failed miserably.... i cant really convey how i truly feel about the moves that petrie has made because i will get banned for excessive profanity.... its been that bad... since the 2003 offseason petrie has made 1 good move, he traded hedo for miller... we really needed a center with vlade showing his age, it was a good move. he then ruined it by turning millers future expiring contract into nocioni.... and his 4yr argentinian thomas contract. he turned bibbys expiring contract into beno's full mle deal....

please tell me where he has made a move worth mentioning? am i missing something? was there a trade that i missed? sergio is basically an expiring contract, low risk move... if he pans out fine if not we lost nothing in the process. and we will still have beno for 3 more years....

 

[USNAVY15]

Beno was paid to be a positive ego free team mate. He wasn't paid to demand trades and detract from the teams progress like 80% or NBA players do when they are feeling threatened. He was given a contract and it was a message to other NBA free agents. The message was heard. Sean May and Desmond Mason are trying us out. And if you think about these things in terms of relative value, Beno costs 7 million a year, Mason should be paid 3(but hes getting 1) May should be getting 3 (but he is getting 1). Assuming May and Mason wouldn't sign with us unless they saw what we did with Beno, Beno's 7 million is actually more like 3 million, because his large contract is attracting talent where talent normally wouldn't be attracted. Its simple reverse psychology.

 

[fnordius]

Assuming May and Mason wouldn't sign with us unless they saw what we did with Beno, Beno's 7 million is actually more like 3 million, because his large contract is attracting talent where talent normally wouldn't be attracted.

If May and/or Mason come to Sac and do what Beno did, then Beno's contract would be catastrophically expensive.

 

[nickmcclure]

Beno was paid to be a positive ego free team mate. He wasn't paid to demand trades and detract from the teams progress like 80% or NBA players do when they are feeling threatened. He was given a contract and it was a message to other NBA free agents. The message was heard. Sean May and Desmond Mason are trying us out. And if you think about these things in terms of relative value, Beno costs 7 million a year, Mason should be paid 3(but hes getting 1) May should be getting 3 (but he is getting 1). Assuming May and Mason wouldn't sign with us unless they saw what we did with Beno, Beno's 7 million is actually more like 3 million, because his large contract is attracting talent where talent normally wouldn't be attracted. Its simple reverse psychology.

I think Beno was paid to be our starting point guard, a pass-first kinda guy with scoring potential when needed. He really fell short this season in that regard.