I’d be fine with signing Arroyo, especially if it was only for two years. One other point – the Clips won’t sign both Beno and Duhon. If they steal Beno, that potentially leaves Duhon for the Kings.

I’d take Arroyo over Duhon because Duhon’s career shooting percentages are horrific. I don’t want to overemphasize shooting in a point guard, but the guy should be able to knock down an open shot. Duhon would be fine as a defensive specialist playing short minutes, but I don’t think you should ever sign a guy to play major minutes who struggles to shoot 40% over the course of a season.

One more point – Arroyo’s numbers in one season as a full time starter are pretty similar to Beno’s numbers last season.

I’m not the biggest Arroyo fan, because he doesn’t fit either of my hopes: a defensive stalwart, or a good distributor. But he’s probably the best available at our hoped price. And he seems like a Petrie type (not ball-dominant, good scorer, shaved head).

You give a good sales pitch, but let’s talk turkey (mmm, turkey). How much are you paying him and for how long?

For the record I’d be happy ending up with (in no particular order) Arroyo, Duhan, Beno, or Williams . . . and I could live with Johnson/Carter/Lue for the minimum if that’s the only other option, although I wouldn’t want any of them for more than a year or 2 (team option?).

I live in Utah and watched him play some. He’s kind of a poor-man’s Mike Bibby.

I’d still rather sign Beno, even if we have to offer him the full five years.

Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll only want the shorter contract (prove himself now for a bigger payoff later) and be loyal to Sacramento because we gave him a chance last season after two teams dumped him in rapid succession.

As the best of the worst until I noticed his .458 FG% last year was a blip – he’s a career .399 FG% player.

If for some reason Arroya is not available, of the other 3 I’d still prefer Carter as he has the best defensive numbers.

I’l take the Garcia/Singletary tandem at the point over any free agent within our reach. Garcia’s has shown skill at the point and would have no fiscal impact on payroll. Free agency isn’t the answer this year. If anything happens it should be through a trade.

I’d say Rodriguez from Portland is the answer.

that i’d rather see Cisco run point than any of these guys if we can’t resign beno?

Rodriguez only played eight minutes a game last year after playing 12 minutes a game as a rookie, but I still liked what I saw int he limited stretches.

Unfortunately I don’t really see a trade adding up for Rodriguez because he makes so little ($817k). Even Douby for him doesn’t work. This 1726275027543025&teams=2222232323&te=&cash=” >bloated trade brings Frye, Rodriguez and Diogu from the Blazers to the Kings for Salmons and Douby, but that would just add some dead bigs to our roster. Maybe there is a three-team trade that would work.

Bring Dickau’s career full circle, back to the team that drafted him and then shipped him off to the hellhole that was the Atlanta Hawks.

As I said on a different thread – don’t reach for a PG.

If there’s not an answer out there, get hte best, cheapest bandaid you can and see if the Virginia kid can play at this level.

Once again, i’m fine (even good) with Beno at a reasonable price but wouldn’t go past three years except with team options. Duhon and Arroyo are good options as well and if we could get either one for an inexpensive (2-3mil), short term (2yr + opt) deal to see how things work out – great again.

BUT DON’T REACH and get us stuck.

If he doesn’t opt out, I figure we’ll get a PG as part of a trade.

You guys complain about Artest’s occasional crazyness – that guy IS crazy! (he’ll do time someday)

....preparing for 2010 summer issue needs to be put into perspective. Every team is preparing for that summer. EVERY team. We are not unique in that.

...undrafted free agent PGs of any interest to anyone? Even just to give a decent burn this summer/preseason?

With this list, I would almost certainly rather go with Garcia, Singletary at PG and save some $$.

the most exciting and petrie-ish move, for my money, is shaun livingston. take a flyer on him. worstcase? he never plays, goes under the knife again on your dime, you eat a few mil. bestcase? he’s the same shaun freaking livingston that once upon a time had magical court-vision powers and we’ve got a truly thrilling addition to the skeleton army.

if nothing else it gives us something to tantalize our brains as we wait for the rebuilding jell-o to congeal. no?

Might sound unrelated at first but ESPN just reported Elton Brand is opting out of his contract with the Clippers. His agent is saying that he is probably not signing with them if they don’t get some good players via free agency and show him they are committed to winning. With Maggette already out this means the Clippers are not going anywhere anytime soon. Hope Beno realizes that and doesn’t take the midlevel offer he would probably get from them and opts to take a more modest offer in Sac, with a better team. Maybe a 3 year deal with team option in ‘10 and prove he’s the point guard the Kings need and that he is worth more money later down the road.

are Arroyo, Dooling and Livingston. I would be more than willing to take a cheap 2 year flier on any of those 3 guys (especially Livingston).