Resign McCants (split from Petrie grade thread)

Well, tonight's game against the Pacers is my first time watching McCants in a Kings uni..

My first thoughts are that he scores well and in different ways but I would NOT break the bank for him. and that includes MLE. If he's not playing pg on this team, he is otherwise pointless if we have Martin, Cisco, Noc and Greene.
 
DocHolliday said:
The Kings simply can't re-sign McCants in my opinion. The Kings can't keep on nickel and diming themselves, or they won't have the big money to pay the right person when the opportunity presents itself.
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The Kings are stil going to need to field a team of 12 NBA players next season. They will all have contracts. I guarantee you McCants will be better than some of those guys. So it all becomes about the $$$.
 
Bricklayer said:
The Kings are stil going to need to field a team of 12 NBA players next season. They will all have contracts. I guarantee you McCants will be better than some of those guys. So it all becomes about the $$$.
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If I remember correctly when Bobby was with us during the "good ole days" wasn't he making somewhere around 3.5 mil?? Which was a hell of a bargain for a great 6th man. Do you really think that McCants won't get an offer for more than something like that? That's all I'd be willing to give him.
 
DocHolliday said:
If I remember correctly when Bobby was with us during the "good ole days" wasn't he making somewhere around 3.5 mil?? Which was a hell of a bargain for a great 6th man. Do you really think that McCants won't get an offer for more than something like that? That's all I'd be willing to give him.
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I don't think there is a team in the league that will risk full MLE on Rashad McCants given his history and this market.
 
Rashad Maccants

I'm liking what I've seen from Rashad Maccants so far. He seems very comfortable coming off the bench, and he is a better passer then i thought. He is prolly one of the best defenders on our team right now other then Garcia. I like his "enforcer" style of play that he brings which is pretty much the opposite of Garcia and Martins game and I think this team needs that to balance us out. He brings a toughness that we really need.

I'm saying we re-sign this guy for a cuple years.
 
I've thought about McCants as well. The market isn't looking too good for off the bench combo guards, so we could probably get him on the cheap. I think a 3 year, (last one at player option) contract at around 3 Mil/year is what he could fetch reasonably.

McCants cannot run the point, even in the second unit, but w/Garcia off the bench, I like the pairing. Garcia can run point duty, while McCants operates as a 2 guard on offense. They would, obviously switch to guarding pg for McCants and off guard for Garcia.
 
I don't want him around next year. He is more than capable at contibuting next year, but I would rather have Donte get those minutes, and he is a little too selfish for my liking. He is a talented offensive player, and a physical defender, but I would much rather have Donte play 15-20 min a game next year, and use that money to fill a different need, like a pg.
 
McCants is all the thing I hope Douby could have turned into. A scoring shooting guard with a bigger point guard body that can play defense against oppossing PG and will blend well when Cisco plays the PG.

If we are to get a PG in this years draft, I would gladly vote to resign McCants and ship Beno and not resign Bobby J.(as what some fans seem to want). He does not really steal Donte's minutes as a lineup of

PG - Cisco
SG - McCants
SF - Greene

can actually play good and provides a variety on offense defense option
from the bench.

This of course will mean that our starting five will be.

PG - Rubio
SG - Martin
SF - Nocioni
PF - Thompson
C - Hawes
 
I think it would be wise to sign Rashad. One thing ive noticed about him is his ability to fill in for injured players and super produce. Injuries are going to happen in the next few years and I wouldn't mind McCants starting for Martin in that situation. When we are a good team again we are going to need to win without our star(s) once in a while and I think McCants can fill that need pretty good.
 
What I've seen of McCants in his short stint with the Kings, I like. However, with emphasis on the word short. Really not enough time to come to any kind of conclusion on who is, the real McCants. Is he the selfish player I watched play in Chicago, or has he suddenly seen the light of unselfish play. I don't know, and because I don't know, I wouldn't go beyond one guaranteed year, and a second year with a team option.

I won't put a price tag on him. I'll leave that up to the powers that be. But I would try to get him as cheap as possible. He's undersized for a shooting guard, and he certainly not a pt guard. Based on past history, asking him to be a pt guard is equivalent to asking a drug addict to guard the drugs.

I don't know the mind set of management, but I suspect McCants future with the Kings depends on whether Petrie and company have plans for whatever cap space we have in the off season. If their waiting for 2010, then McCants is certainly worth a reasonable short term gamble.
 
We've had this discussion before in a previous thread. 2 year $6 million--the emphasis on the shorter years and definitely below the mid-level exception. He's a strength scorer with a jumper and can play a physical brand of D, but he has clear limitations in height, passing ability, and seems to have a bit of a hotheaded temper at times. It just evens out, and tweener gunner guards, although he's stronger and plays defense better than the prototype, just shouldn't be overpaid at all. If he doesn't take the $$$ or goes for bigger dough from another team, he's definitely expendable--after all, scorers are easily replaceable, and his few extra dimensions are not special in a star sort of way.
 
I would not be comfortable signing him for more than one year. He hasn't been here long enough to make a good judgement on his character, and if you want to invest in him longterm. There was a reason he fell out of the rotation in minnesota. You can't deny the possibility he is trying hard to be on his best behavior until he signs a new contract.

He is talented enough to be a consistent scorer off the bench, and I really like how physical he is. But with all the salaries we have been dumping and the options we will have over the next few years, we can get a player just as talented without the risk. If we do bring him back, it should be for only a year to see if he can gel with the team and also to see if he is a real team player.
 
rainmaker said:
I would not be comfortable signing him for more than one year. He hasn't been here long enough to make a good judgement on his character, and if you want to invest in him longterm. There was a reason he fell out of the rotation in minnesota. You can't deny the possibility he is trying hard to be on his best behavior until he signs a new contract.

He is talented enough to be a consistent scorer off the bench, and I really like how physical he is. But with all the salaries we have been dumping and the options we will have over the next few years, we can get a player just as talented without the risk. If we do bring him back, it should be for only a year to see if he can gel with the team and also to see if he is a real team player.
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2 year deal, 2nd year team option

i like him but not that much. seems like a selfish player imo
 
Let him walk. I'm tired of his one on one. Seems everytime he gets the ball in the half court he holds it for 10 seconds then takes a jumper. I'd rather have Salmons back.
 
Section 101 said:
Let him walk. I'm tired of his one on one. Seems everytime he gets the ball in the half court he holds it for 10 seconds then takes a jumper. I'd rather have Salmons back.
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I think it would be hard to get the Bulls to give him up right now. He's started 16 games, and performing better than he did here. As far as talent goes, Chicago got the better part of that trade. We didn't even get the cap space to become a player in the FA market. So, basicly all we got out of the deal was a few million in savings for the Maloofs.
 
HighTopKicks said:
I think it would be hard to get the Bulls to give him up right now. He's started 16 games, and performing better than he did here. As far as talent goes, Chicago got the better part of that trade. We didn't even get the cap space to become a player in the FA market. So, basicly all we got out of the deal was a few million in savings for the Maloofs.
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I think he meant that he dosen't want McCants so much that he would rather have Salmons (Which is pretty bad). He was basically saying that he dosen't want McCants because he plays like Salmons does so why keep him if we didn't keep Salmons.
 
HighTopKicks said:
I think it would be hard to get the Bulls to give him up right now. He's started 16 games, and performing better than he did here. As far as talent goes, Chicago got the better part of that trade. We didn't even get the cap space to become a player in the FA market. So, basicly all we got out of the deal was a few million in savings for the Maloofs.
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And a better chance at Griffin/Rubio
 
GeraldWallace#3 said:
I think he meant that he dosen't want McCants so much that he would rather have Salmons (Which is pretty bad). He was basically saying that he dosen't want McCants because he plays like Salmons does so why keep him if we didn't keep Salmons.
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I understood what he was saying. I'm not one of those that thought that Salmons was a problem. And, obviously he isn't a problem for Chicago.

The point I was trying to make is that it isn't always the player but the situation. McCants is fighting for his NBA career. He's without a contract for next year, and is trying to prove his worth to the Kings and any other team that might be watching.

Given a contract for 2 years, he might be a very different player than what we're seeing right now.
 
I am tired of all these guys who do well while playing for a contract and Geoff falling for it.

We have plenty of mediocre guys on this team. I say let the ballhog walk.
 
For real....

I get nervous when Geoff hands out contracts. It tends to end in disaster.

Martin and Salmons had decent ones, but besides those two..
 
McCants is far from being one-time wonders of being Mikki Moore or Beno (although I say Beno has been clicking lately). Mikki had only one stellar season in New Jersey and the rest being a journeyman. Beno had only one stellar year in Sac while being an injury prone backup to Parker all his career and merely seeing minutes.

On the flip side you have McCants who have been playing a lot of minutes in Minny and was once even considered as one of the solid young cores in their until they had a logjam at the wings (Foye, Brewer, Miller) and decided to ship him here for our dear Sheldon or for whatever reason those wise guys in Minny again thought of. :rolleyes:

The way his playing in Sac is almost the same way he's been playing in his career with the Wolves. So I doubt they'll be very drastic negativity of performance change once we resign him for maybe 2 more seasons(the last being team option).
 
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