Signing John Salmons did NOT make Cisco and Douby better players. Rather he stole their minutes and stunted their development. A year later we still don't know what we have there.
Signing Mikki Moore will NOT make Hawes and Justin better players, for the same reasons.
In order to become better players kids need minutes. Consistent rotation minutes. And as of right now there are zero. I mean really zero. By signing Mikki we basically replaced Corliss. And we have the entire frontcourt crew back again: Miller, SAR, Kenny and now Mikki/Corliss. And last year with that siutuation Justin was totally screwed until we started shutting the vets down at the end of the year. And now we've added Hawes as well -- our two kids are behind FOUR big contract vets. Sans Mikki, ONE of the kids might have gotten some minutes by basically replacing Corliss. With Mikki? Unless Geoff does something, and fast, we are looking at garbage time. And that just doesn't make you a whole hell of a lot better. You gotta play. Not start. But 15-20min a night, every night, at least.
Once we drafted Hawes, the best case scenario was we manage to trade away one of our remaining three old vets (Brad, Kenny, SAR) and then there could be major minutes for one kid, and minor minutes for the other. Instead we went the other way, instead of losing a vet, we GAINED one. And now you've got a mess. If we can somehow magically trade TWO of our vets now before the beginning of the season, leaving maybe Brad as vet #1 and Mikki as vet #2, then Spenser and Justin both get an oppportunity, and its all ok. But there hasn't even been a rumbling of that happening.