Udrih had a nice run as the Kings' emergency replacement at the point this past season, but that's the whole point: He was seen as a success mainly because the expectations were so low. Sacramento signed him as roster filler and was pleasantly surprised when it turned out he actually could play a little.
That doesn't mean the Kings should pay him the full midlevel for a half-decade, though. Udrih is 26 and a career 43.9 percent shooter. The most similar players at the same age are Vonteego Cummings, Khalid Reeves and Doug Overton, and his projected PER for 2008-09 comes in at 12.99. He's a good backup, but that's about it.
Given the Kings' recent history with their midlevel (coughShareef Abdur-Rahimcough), you'd think they would be a little more reticent to shell out -- especially given Geoff Petrie's rep as one of the game's shrewdest talent evaluators. One has to wonder whether the Maloof brothers' enthusiasm for their own players was a driving force here, and if so, whether it will come back to bite them again -- just as it did when Mike Bibby hit free agency in 2002.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=FreeAgency-080703&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab3pos1
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oops
screwed up the attribution… Hollinger posted this on ESPN.com.
Beware certitude.
by Reges on Jul 3, 2008 11:56 PM PDT 0 recs
The one thing that Hollinger fails to mention
is the theory of supply and demand. Udrih was going to get a 5 year full MLE. The only question was who was going to land him?
Udrih’s salary remains below last year’s NBA average of $8.5 million for a starting PG (and last year’s average included Udrih at less than a half million).
I was amongst those that only wanted to sign him to a 3 year deal. Alas, supply and demand would not allow that to happen. In the end, I am OK with the signing.
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by section214 on Jul 4, 2008 8:16 AM PDT 0 recs
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Let’s not write him off as a career back-up yet. Give him a training camp and a stable roster and see what he can do.
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