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“Guerschon Yabusele no longer has a player option for next season and will be a UFA this offseason, sources can confirm. He had worked with Knicks to amend contract before the Dalen Terry trade.”
This can’t be right, at least technically. Perusing the CBA, waiving a player option is not a permitted contract amendment. Perhaps he was able to give Chicago some form of assurance that he would not be exercising it.
This can’t be right, at least technically. Perusing the CBA, waiving a player option is not a permitted contract amendment.
4) In connection with the trade of a Player Contract, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Article XII, Section 2(a), a player and the assignor Team may agree upon an amendment to the Contract providing for the exercise or non-exercise of an Option contained in the Contract by a player or Team (as the case may be), provided that the amendment also provides that (i) the player will be traded to the assignee Team within a specified period of time not to exceed forty-eight (48) hours of the execution of the amendment, and (ii) such trade and the consummation of such trade are conditions precedent to the validity of the amendment.
Thanks pt. Did you have to look that up, or at least look it up to paste it into the comment box, or you just posted from memory?
i only remembered the original latin so i had to translate
Re: Deuce’s surgery:
One thing about that Pacers trade that occur to me yesterday…
They’ll probably flip the switch.
Nesmith is back after missing a lot of time. Obi’s coming back soon. And Mathurin was so bad he was actually their tank commander.
Nembhardt, Nesmith, Siakim, and Zubac is a pretty good top 4. All they have to do is finish 20th and they’re guaranteed to keep their pick even if they win the lottery. And everyone in front of them is going to be tanking hard to get below them.
Cheeky bastards.
LOL
What are they putting in the water in Charlotte? 😮
Alan, thanks for the Deuce expected timeline, let’s hope he breaks the record. We need him.
Deuce being ready for the playoffs is such a major factor for their final chances.
I really want to see the Alvarado-Deuce-Landry-OG-KAT lineup at the beginning of the second/fourth quarters. I feel like it’s a perfect complement for KAT, and would be ferocious defensive.
I don’t think there’s a reserves+starter lineup out there in the East that is better.
I guess the Lakers missed Austin Reaves
Quite the return performance, 35 points on 17 shots in just 25 minutes.
Chris Boucher was placed on waivers, would he be a good solution for the big man we need?
Reaves will be a very rich man in a few months.
In doing research on return from hernia surgery I was not encouraged. Timeline seems more like 8-12 weeks (assuming laproscopic repair rather than open surgery), and there is a significant period where mobility is restricted, so I’m thinking he won’t be fully healthy and in shape until at least the second round and even then he’d have to be worked back in to the rotation under the most stressful of circumstances.
He’s young and a tough-minded kid so maybe he’ll be ready sooner, but I’m not counting on it.
“Chris Boucher was placed on waivers, would he be a good solution for the big man we need?”
In theory yes, but the Celts hardly used him at all and replaced him with raw rookies, so sounds like he’s totally washed.
When Nick Richards was on the Bucks for a few minutes I was hoping they’d waive him, but it seems less likely with the Bulls given that their starting center is 6’8″ Jalen Smith, as best I can tell.
Nurkic annoyingly makes too much money. The sub-MLE buyout market for bigs is bleak enough that Boucher may well be the guy, which raises the question of whether we should just double down on guards.
Boucher should be a very cheap “reclamation project,” if we wanted to go that route. Could be an utter failure, but it could also be a win/win. I have to look at it as “we weren’t getting anything from Yabu, so this couldn’t be really worse than that.”
The more I think about what Yabu did last night, the more I realize that there was no way we could have given him a regular 33 minutes on this team, as we just have “too many horses” (good problem to have). Chicago is a much worse team, so they can afford to give him that many minutes. He couldn’t do for us what he did for them last night in 3-minute stints.
A key thing to note about the Deuce surgery is the Knicks didn’t reveal it, Fred Katz discovered through investigation. Deuce had the surgery on Jan 29th, and the Knicks were actively covering it up.
Since the whole “could be back for the playoffs” isn’t actually coming from the team, that likely only pertains to his recovery time from the hernia surgery. We still don’t know anything about his ankle, and we now we know the organization isn’t being forthright.
They amputated his foot.
Alvarado was a huge get for Leon and company.
It also seems possible, if not likely, that Katz had this story in his pocket for days but released it after the deadline either as a courtesy to the Knicks or to his sources inside them.
Interesting cloak and dagger stuff.
I think it’s highly unlikely we see Deuce again this year.
I speak with vast experience. I had a hernia when I was five that I had to go to NYP Hospital to fix it.
When I asked the doctor what he had done with my hernia after the operation, he told me he had thrown it in the East River.
I faithfully repeated this fact for years. So I am an expert.
The key question though — were you available for the Playoffs?
I had umbilical hernia surgery a few years ago – which is I think a less complicated type of hernia. The recovery was much quicker than the timelines Deuce was given. I was back to exercising in 5ish weeks, if I recall correctly.
Thinking three months or so on this one. That’s if everything goes right. Also have no idea what the severity of the tissue damage was or how Deuce’s body responds to this kind of stuff. If we get Deuce as we know him back for meaningful games this year it wouldn’t be the craziest thing but not something I’d bet any happiness on.
“Deuce had the surgery on Jan 29th”
Any proof of this?
The report was that he was going to have surgery today.
Ahh, now it makes sense, the person who posted that must think that an MRI is a form of surgery.
Weird trade deadline, huh?
1st game in Chicago and Yabusele cooked lol. But probably because he was in the same position as last season with Philly- no available good options on offense outside of a small guard.
I think a lot of things went well for Yabu…the relief of being in a no-stress tanking environment and knowing that he can make mistakes or miss shots and still stay in the rotation, and playing a team with no bigs.
That doesn’t mean that he had a legit gripe about being poorly deployed here. He reported to the team grossly out of shape. Case closed. I wish him well, as he seems like a good guy, but what happened to him here was pretty close to 100% on him.
Yep, that’s what I keep telling myself so that I’ll feel better.
Did anyone actually see the game? Like, how was Yabu moving around? I’m thinking that it’s like the fat out-of-shape guy we’ve all seen at the gym who knows how to move just enough to get himself open and then drops 30 on everyone.
Weird sequence of events. MRI on the 29th, results would be almost immediate. Surgery yesterday at the earliest. Why wait, especially if the narrative is to try to get him back for the playoffs? Perhaps (1) they believe he will not be available for the playoffs; (2) once operated on, they would have to disclose it as the fiction of ankle management (or whatever they called it) would have to stop on the injury reports; and (3) the Alvarado negotiations would be harder.
If what I posited is true (and I have no evidence it is, just playing connect the dots), a little bit of a stench. Especially if Deuce heals faster than expected and could have contributed a couple of games earlier.
Hollinger list of guys who are candidates to be bought out, some of whom could be available to us: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7026542/2026/02/06/nba-buyout-market-tiers-russell-westbrook-chris-paul-2026/
Among the players he suggests could shake loose, and might be of interest (and don’t make so much that we’re not allowed to sign them due to apron rules): Bagley, Kyle Anderson, Sochan (I’d be surprised if the Spurs buy him out), Lonzo (maybe he’s washed?), Conley (though he’s allowed to just sign back with Minnesota, since he got traded twice this week), Pat Connaughton (already released), the aforementioned Boucher.
Not an inspiring group. But when is it ever with buyout guys?
My apologies, Deuce underwent the MRI on the 29th, not the surgery. It’s in the Fred Katz report:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7024878/2026/02/05/knicks-miles-mcbride-surgery-trade-jose-alverado/
The important fact is that all of this is coming from a reporter, not the Knicks. And Fred is only reporting on his expected recovery time from the hernia surgery. We still know nothing about the ankle.
hey cyber, I hope the day is moving along smoothly for you…
yes charlotte looks pretty okay out there on the court…lamelo is mostly just distributing, nipples ( 🙃 ) and brandon miller power their offense…
miller’s game has really matured offensively, he’s got a pretty complete bag…and the rook, nipples, doesn’t really miss much and knows how to play…
they also have two young (24) big guys that can defend really well: diabate and kalkbrenner…
I don’t know, there’s like 30 games left in the season, they may make it to that 7 and 8 play-in match up…
Given that Yabu was playing last night for the Bulls, do we know if Alvarado will be available tonight? I want to see him bother LeVert.
MRIs have to be analyzed and a once the data is clear treatment options have to be explored. Likely more than one person has to weigh in with a second opinion or three and then you have to organize the surgery if that’s the option with a human being in a place. So like maybe it’s not clear that surgery was an absolute must right now and they opted in for whatever reasons. That could be a good thing if the procedure was really minor.
Maybe being able to pull off Alvarado was the trigger.
Educated guess? Microplastics.
Alvarado is great and all, but wouldn’t Jevon Carter (41% on 3ptas) have given us basically the same thing without spending draft picks?
Does Olynyk make too much money? I think he’d be more useful that Huk as a third string center.
The thing I find strange is that I read the Knicks were surprised by the diagnosis. It’s possible he had few to no symptoms and it was discovered by accident. If that’s the case, it would theoretically be possible to play with the hernia and hope to get through the playoffs and have surgery in the off season. Yet in an “all in” year, they chose surgery now.
It could be they said, “F the basketball, we don’t want this to get worse for you. Just do it now even if you miss the playoffs”.
It could be they are simply confident that given the extent of the surgery he has to get done he’ll be back for the playoffs even if he’s less than 100% for the 1st round.
Plus they probably knew they had Alvarado in the bag just in case.
Maybe, Clarence. I think the Knicks probably have a quick turnaround time on all that, but the point here is that the expected return time table is coming from Fred Katz’ source, not the Knicks medical staff. And that source may not know anything about his ankle.
Also, if he’s missing extended time with a high ankle sprain now’s a good time to fis him up.
We’re all just guessing, Hubert. I’m suggesting possible somewhat reasonable pathways to where we are. Guy gets hurt, team prioritizes the health and wellness of team and player over petting the gallery goers on the knee. Seems fine to me.
Shams: “Free agent guard Mike Conley Jr. plans to return to the Minnesota Timberwolves, sources tell ESPN. The sides are working on timing of him re-signing. Conley was traded twice this week – to Chicago, then to Charlotte – before being released and allowed to rejoin the Wolves.”
I briefly held out hope of him coming here, but once that second trade went through, it was obvious he would stick with the T-Wolves. He likes it there, and he doesn’t have to uproot his life mid-season.
lmao
I just saw that Yabu had his best game of the season off the plane in Chicago. Guys don’t magically get very good or very bad overnight unless they are very young, very old, often injured or have personal issues.
He’s a good enough player to at least be in the rotation for a good team and Towns is still a great offensive player…maybe just not on these Knicks.
Feels like that’s a loophole that should be closed – you’re not supposed to be able to sign the guys you just traded!
People who are fueled by deep dish pizza tend to do well in Chicago.
Deep dish pizza?
Let’s pump the brakes a little and wait for Yabu to do this with a team that has players taller than 6’6.
Yeah, that Yabu line was kind of crazy from a supposedly broken player
yabu seems to perform better in the nba in less stressful, lower expectations kind of environments it seems…
just wonder why he self sabotaged himself prior to showing up here…
Alvarado seems to be a more dynamic offensive player than Carter, who is more of a defensive specialist with limited passing skills (career 3.7 asts/36, 13.9 AST%) and has not been a rotation player even on a mediocre CHI team. Alvarado is somewhat more of playmaker and a viable PG backup, and is also younger.
It is interesting that the ankle hasn’t been discussed much when we all thought that was the reason he was going for an MRI.
That hints at a few things.
1. The ankle can be rehabbed
2. The ankle needs surgery but it can be delayed until off season
3. The ankle was never the real issue to begin with. It was the hernia and they hid that for deadline purposes.
4. They don’t want to annouce he’s out for the season yet and just decided to do the hernia operation first
The 4rd seems like the least likely, but it is the Knicks.
5th option they cloned Deuce and are incubating the once and future deuce in the soft tissue of his left buttock.
High ankle sprains are tricky. One would think that if it was the kind that required surgery, it would have happened already. If anything, the hernia surgery will allow more time for it to heal, and that’s probably a good thing. He seems to have been playing through it, indicated that it was not something that had to be dealt with immediately, so with the additional rest, he should be good to go when the hernia heals.
I was excited to find one or two guys on the buyout market list that Alan posted, but was quickly dismayed to find that there doesn’t seem to be anyone who fits the archetype of what we need: a stretch 4 who can rebound a li’l bit, defend a li’l bit, and shoot 3s a li’l bit.
Again, what Yabu was supposed to do for us. But Yabu couldn’t do it for us in spot minutes. We need someone who can do those things for ~12 minutes a game, who can be OK with those kinds of minutes, and who can thrive in that role.
This is incredible stuff from Alvarado: https://x.com/warriorsger/status/2019572645382222239?s=20
He’s out there Prigioning.
My concern is that the hernia surgery could have waited til after the season but he got bad news on the ankle and now this is the end of his season. But we won’t know anything until the Knicks actually say something. So far only Katz has spoken.
If they got bad news on the ankle and they chose to forgo that surgery for the sports hernia then we have a lot more to worry about than when they tell us what they’re gonna tell us. The hernia surgery suggests exactly what zman just said. At least to me.
Alvarado is an exciting player. He also has minus 2.2 bpm this year, and never cracked zero bpm. Do you really want him on the court for 10-12 minutes against Detroit or Boston in the playoff?
I really wish we were close to full strength for tonight because it’s the ultimate statement game.
The Pistons sincerely thought they were the better team in last year’s playoff battle. Even if they weren’t, it was damn close either way. They came into the season hungry to prove it, had that game at MSG circled on the calendar and destroyed the Knicks at MSG.
A serious contender is supposed to go into Detroit and make a statement back.
That doesn’t mean we are supposed to blow them out in Detroit. They are very good and they know tonight is circled on the calendar. But the Knicks better show up, play really hard on defense and move the ball on offense to make some kind of statement about what to expect in the playoffs if both make it far enough to meet. If they get blown out again, then we have to just say they are better.
IMO, BPM (or any AIO boxscore metric) does not capture his value well. IMO, he’ll be fine as a “backup” PG, but more importantly he has the right profile for what this team needs. He’ll be a pest on defense, hustle, and be a PG.
Strat, that game we played them in last month was in Detroit. Strange we only play them one more time after this and it’s in two weeks. That time it will be at MSG.
Obviously you don’t want him playing major minutes, but Alvarado is a legit change-of-pace backup point guard. He is tailor-made for running a dynamic second unit…not quite TJ McConnell but a balls-out undersized guard in that mold, relentless, fearless, very physical, very quick feet, great 2-3 step burst. This Brooklyn boy is gonna light up MSG.
BPM doesn’t make a serious attempt to value defense.
RAPM is generally very pro Alvarado on defense.
The bigger RAPM samples see him as a plus offensive player, likely because he does actual point guard-y things above and beyond assists.
The schedule is so difficult for the next 15 or so games. It really only gets better a month from now.
@Pistons
@Celtics
Pacers (presumably with Zubac)
@Sixers
Detroit
Houston
@Chicago
@Cleveland
@Milwaukee
San Antonio
@Toronto
OKC
@Denver
@Lakers
There are maybe 3 gimmies there, depending on how you feel about the Pacers (who are mostly healthy apart from Hali). An 8-6 record here would be really good.
Then you do get a sequence of more manageable games: @Clippers, @Utah, @Indiana, Golden State, Indiana, @Brooklyn, Washington, New Orleans.
They’ll have to win most of these I think to guarantee a good seed.
I suspect tonight will be the bellwether for that whole stretch. If we have a good performance I will be very encouraged.
I think the play-in situation is helping to make the first round 1 vs 8 and 2 vs 7 matchups much more competitive…helps to capture a team that finishes strong…
i’m starting to get to that part of the season where i’m just hoping our players are healthy heading in to the playoffs…and for the first time in forever – interested to see how our young guys further develop…
When two box score similar-ish players have very different reputations a la Alvarado and Carter, there are often clues in metrics that account for impact.
Alvarado has had 3 seasons in the 85th percentile or above in DEPM, Carter has had one and it was 6 years ago (though another in the 84th in 2023, before falling off a cliff recently).
Regression results often have a flaw I learned analyzing horse racing and it can be a key to outsmarting the smartest guys in the room as a gambler.
Certain factors that contribute to outcomes are more easily translated into numbers than others. The more difficult ones tend to be incomplete and/or have more errors. A regression doesn’t necessarily know that. So it winds up spitting out weights that underrate the more error prone factors.
In basketball, there are important things on defense that are not even input let alone being measured accurately. So the result is missing some things on top of underrating defense generally because of more innaccuracies relative to offense.
Racing has similar issues.
When I did my very first simple regression (which is all I can do) the results were not line with decades of experience, but I knew I was more right than the results I got. Then I realized that certain things I translated into numbers for the regression were not quite as accurate as other factors that translate easily. Sometimes what I can intuit in my head doesn’t easily translate into code to generate a number.
So one of the “holes” against the smartest guys in the room with advanced stats models and computers is to find things that do not easily translate into numbers because that’s where they are more likely to make mistakes and you at least have a shot to beat them. The other is with small samples. You can sometimes intuit small samples better than a machine.
Back to Aqueduct and Oaklawn…until tonight.
Alvarado is out plus KAT has been downgraded to doubtful and OG questionable.
The book on Alvarado is pretty consistent from people who are very familiar with his playing: he’s too small to effectively guard anybody 6’3” or over, but he claws some of that back with a pestering defensive style that earned him the nickname “Grand Theft Alvarado.”
I think he’s gonna be a fun player for NYK.
Josh is also listed as Questionable, BBA:
Expected Lineup
PG Jalen Brunson
SG J. Hart Ques
SF Mikal Bridges
PF O. Anunoby Ques
C M. Robinson
MAY NOT PLAY
F J. Hart Ques
F O. Anunoby Ques
C K. Towns Doubt
G J. Alvarado Out
G M. McBride Out
I think that maybe one of Josh or OG plays tonight, but not both.
In terms of Detroit:
Expected Lineup
PG C. Cunningham
SG D. Robinson Prob
SF A. Thompson
PF T. Harris Prob
C J. Duren Ques
MAY NOT PLAY
F T. Harris Prob
F D. Robinson Prob
C J. Duren Ques
C D. Saric Out
C Tolu Smith Out
I’d say Duren is 50/50, and I can’t even hazard a guess as to whether he’ll be out there or not.
Yeah, totally agree. I am not sure how good Jose is but I know I will love watching him.
Plus blood in the ground, or whatever that phrase was….
Probably means more Clarkson tonight. Yay.
Hopefully we get to see some extended run for Diawara and/or McCullar instead.
I did not see it confirmed that Alvarado is out, only that he is “not with team, pending physical.” Is it possible that he passes his physical and then gets to DET for the game?
I was so sure yabu was gonna be a fan favorite with his energized play…that was a dud prediction there…
gonna temper my expectations for gta…
mccullar over clarkson by a mile…not sure though what that might do to team chemistry…
cool to see mo handle the ball a bit and play the three…
What I was posted said he’s Out, Z. I’ve never seen a player play who was listed as Out at any point during the day. “Doubtful,” once in a blue moon. “Out,” never (again, in my experience).
This could really be a dud of a game. We’ve had a fast rash of injuries, it’s like the flu suddenly ran through the team.
Might be Brunson and Cunningham trading baskets until one of them is too exhausted to continue…
FWIW, Yabu is listed on BK-Ref as having played his minutes at C. He’s not viable defensively at C for a contender but that may be what he needs to shoot well.
yes, yabu seems to thrive with low expectations for his performance…
How can a game be an “ultimate statement game” if neither team is at or near full strength?
Cade is in incredibly difficult match up for this Knicks roster and I’m sure Brown’s staff has spent much tiempo during the off season looking at ways to guard him better than in last season’s playoffs. I’m fairly certain they won’t be unveiling any new schemes on a Friday night in February.
Pretty surprised KAT is doubtful after he came back in post-laceration and had a great game…weird.
Yeah, that sucks that Alvarado couldn’t be turned around fast enough for this game.
I suspect that this might be a “all hands on deck” kind of game, lots of minutes for our 5 kids.
Let’s say the starting 5 at worst is Brunson, Hart, Bridges, Mitch, and Diawara, with subs Kolek, Huk, McCullar and Clarkson. That could be enough to pul one out. Throw either KAT or OG in the mix and I like our chances.
If the o/u on Dadiet’s minutes is 0.5, anyone taking the over?
“Let’s say the starting 5 at worst is Brunson, Hart, Bridges, Mitch, and Diawara, with subs Kolek, Huk, McCullar and Clarkson.”
Yeah, but unfortunately that’s not the worst possible starting lineup. If Hart is out again like he was in the last game, Mike Brown could start Clarkson again. But even in that game, we had KAT and OG, so this could see a start(l)ing lineup of Brunson, Clarkson, Bridges, Diawara, and Mitch.
Cade was not that good in the playoffs against the Knicks last year. Had a 51% TS% with 5.3 turnovers per game.
I’m kind of mystified how a cut over the eye renders a player “doubtful”
It’s possible that he had considerable swelling after the game, making it hard to keep the eye open. Maybe KAT needs to be proactive…
The huge favorite Knicks won 3 of the 4 games by one, two and 3 points, and don’t tell me you weren’t passing a kidney stone evey time he went to the basket in crunch time, for a first time in the playoffs guy.
25/8.3/8.7 wasn’t that good in the playoffs? Brunson was 29.4/3.4/7.0 in last year’s playoffs. Shai was 29.9/5.3/6.5 in last year’s playoffs
“Not that good” seems to be kindly, inconsistent with the facts. Especially when you take the supporting casts into account.
That is certainly possible (swelling) or maybe he is dealing with symptoms associated with a mild concussion from clashing heads. I think Spencer Jones WAS concussed.
I can’t imagine he’d beg off without real symptoms. Not something to bleep around with.
“I can’t imagine he’d beg off without real symptoms. Not something to bleep around with.”
I would tend to agree, especially after he at least a little “heroically” returned to play the rest of the game the other night—which was longer than usual (before he fouled out)—and played a pretty big role in why we ended up winning it. Wouldn’t make sense to then bow out of the game *after* that one, if he doesn’t have to. We’ll see how it goes, although if Duren doesn’t play and KAT does, KAT could do really well against their backups (although Stewart is good defensively). More disappointed that Alvie can’t join the fun tonight.
Reasonably reassuring, given that 8 weeks still has him ready for the playoffs. Of course, we have no idea how it’ll play out.
The buyout market for bigs really is so bleak I’m somewhat serious about seeing if Cam Thomas wants to avoid moving. There are easily 20 minutes for him on a contender while McBride is out, can anyone else offer him that?
Playing him against the Pistons defense is not going to happen.
Hey Geo, my day was ok and everything’s fine with me and the family. The weather not so much, we’ve been getting storms every 3 days, with heavy rain and heavy wind. The prediction says that our beautiful riverside near the old Eiffel bridge where Z-man probably walked around sightseeing will be flooded with water tonight or tomorrow during the day.
And how are you? Everything fine with you and the kids? How many times a day do you go walk the dog? Do you find it relaxing?
I’m taking the over… i still have land in Dadiet island, i just don’t visit it much! LOL
Cam Thomas is a low-IQ inefficient chucker who plays zero D.
How about a Diawara breakout game?
cyber, sorry to hear about the storms, stay safe! Hope that beachfront restaurant we went to stays high and dry enough! In NY we are bracing for a bitterly cold weekend with high winds (crazy low wing chills) and a bit of snow. I haven’t had a drink in a month, planning to break the streak on Super Sunday during the Knicks Celts game, and I hear there’s a football game afterwards.
sounds like rain rain and more rain there cyber, stay safe driving sir…
man, I do not walk the dog enough…every time I do though I am struck by just how beautiful it is outside…
gonna go pick up the boys in a bit, feels good having them around – especially when they aren’t bickering with each other 😊
“Cam Thomas is a low-IQ inefficient chucker who plays zero D.”
Don’t we have one of those already, anyway?
Yep. Jordcam Clarkmas.
Thanks, and you too stay safe. This is the part of the year when these events happen, so we just have to endure it. Thing is i’m not really used to it, as Portugal typically has mild winters. But as we all know, with climate change and all, we have to be ready for the new normal.
Dalen Terry is back on the market.
I would take Dalen over Cam Thomas every day of the week and twice on Sundays, especially this Sunday! The kid can defend!
“I would take Dalen over Cam Thomas every day of the week and twice on Sundays, especially this Sunday! The kid can defend!”
Wholeheartedly agree on Terry over Thomas. But another guard is not what we need right now. We just gave up a big for a small guard.
Josh upgraded to Probable. I say he plays.
Are we allowed to sign Terry? And ptmilo will have to go translate latin again. 😀
It’s interesting the way people use “inefficient” as more of an aesthetic descriptor than an empirical one sometimes. Cam Thomas had a TS+ of 100 on sky high usage last season.
He’s a chucker who leaves plenty to be desired (we are talking about the buyout market here, after all). But he’s not inefficient!
That’s great, we need his energy and hustle*.
*any of you remember the hustlebunny non sense?
I’m curious about something and I have no idea if it’s legal…if let’s say Nurkic were to sign somewhere for the vet minimum and bought out or cut from the 2nd team, would we then be able to sign him? I’m not convinced he’s the specific archetype of what we need but I’m curious if there’s a loop hole there that Leon can exploit if someone else were to shake loose that fits our needs better that makes over 14M.
You would think with all of the CAA connections across the league, they could get help from a client while staying with the boundaries of the CBA.
It was only 781 minutes last season, and every other year he’s been lower.
Either way, his defense is so bad that I’d pass. If we were rebuilding I’d take a flier on him.
“It’s interesting the way people use “inefficient” as more of an aesthetic descriptor than an empirical one sometimes.”
EB beat me to it, but Cam Thomas has played over 5000 minutes and has a career TS of .551, a career TS+ of 95, and a career eFG+ of 91 on a career usage of 28%. He’s also a career 34% 3pt shooter. Is that empirical enough? If that’s not an inefficient chucker, I don’t know what is. He’s not quite Clank Barrett, but not all that far off.
Not to say he can’t improve, but so far he has been pretty bad.
Josh in:
Expected Lineup
PG Jalen Brunson
SG Josh Hart
SF Mikal Bridges
PF O. Anunoby Ques
C M. Robinson
MAY NOT PLAY
C K. Towns Doubt
F O. Anunoby Ques
G J. Alvarado Out
G M. McBride Out
Expected Lineup
PG C. Cunningham
SG D. Robinson Prob
SF A. Thompson
PF T. Harris Prob
C J. Duren Ques
MAY NOT PLAY
F T. Harris Prob
F D. Robinson Prob
C J. Duren Ques
C D. Saric Out
C Tolu Smith Out
If Clank were on the buyout market, yeah I’d consider signing him.
We’re trying to paper over the temporary absence of Deuce and mothballing of Clarkson here, not giving out a super max.
Is there a more compelling buyout guy I’m not seeing?
This is what Hollinger had to say about Terry in the article about waiver candidates
He’s not a small guard. He’s actually 6’6” and plays small forward. He doesn’t sound awful, but maybe we need a power forward or center type instead.
I think his defense is that bad, so kinda.
Moreso it’s that we have Shamet, Alvarado, and Kolek off the bench for the guard positions. At the 4 we really only have Diawara, who is more fun than good.
I do like Terry. We can’t sign him though.
we can always use one of KAT, OG, or even josh at the 4…
Is there a buy out opportunity though that can give us more than huk or even jemison the third…
Strong no on Cam.
Relentlessly dedicated to not playing defense in my experience
I’m no on Cam too. My intuition is that he is not very coschable and we don’t need that on our team