Sean May: The Out-of-Shape Ike Diogu/Currently Healthy Leon Powe

I like this signing. Sean May, when in shape (if you’ve ever had a bad knee injury, you’d know how hard it is to get back to where you were afterwards) was a very efficient player almost immediately after college. This strikes me as a relatively low-risk, high-reward situation.

Need I say more?

This team just needs a backup big man. Shock and Hawes are supposed to be the future anyway. We get too worked up over these things.

I just hope the KIngs sign ONE of the three players. I would prefer Diogu then May but either one. Kings need a backup center and both could do that well enough for a couple million a year. I say sign the cheaper guy.

He has an NBA body, strength, and better offensive skillset than the other two. The thing that worries me about Diogu is what I remember Peaches mentioning about him on a radio broadcast one day: he had asked people from Diogu’s other teams why he wasn’t able to find any minutes, in spite of the fact that he works so hard in practice. Their answers were similar, in that he was a hard worker, but he had a difficult time either catching on to or understanding the various offensive and defensive schemes of each team.

I would still probably go for Leon Powe. He would be my choice if I got to pick, knowing his background of how hard he’s worked against all adversity that has come his way, as well as his success with the Celtics. The toughness and work ethic would be a great boost to this team, IMO, and he just fits into what the Kings are moving towards.

and so are looking – particularly in the case of Sean May – far and WIDE.

Is he close to full fitness, or is he basketball shape (a.k.a round)?

not only is he out of shape but this guy if often injured and has barely played competitive basketball for the past couple of years… the sport he should be participating should be that hotdog eating competition where he challenges joey chestnut and kobayashi…

Ike and an outsider that can legitimately play center signed. None of these three is a center. Given that both our starting PF and C seem to have a penchant for fouling early and often, we absolutely need another player who has the size to match up with average NBA centers.

What about Aaron Gray? I hated him at Pitt, but I think he’s a pretty legit backup and Chicago already has Miller, Noah, and Jerome James on the payroll. I doubt they’d be willing to match much of anything.

Oh, wait, everyone in here is a better judge of talent than our GM now, right? If Petrie – and the coaches, who are certainly there during the workouts – decide a player is the best way to go, I’m not going to suggest that IKE – never done crap in this league – DIOGU is better than Sean May. “Oh wait, Ike Diogu had 2 good games last year,” you say? So what!?! Every player has the chance to go off in this league, doesn’t mean we should sign them. Gah!!

Oh, that was Oliver Miller. I almost forgot.

Sean May = The Big O II

There is zero risk here. I doubt the Kings lock him down to much of a contract and there isn’t much of a market for him. Guys coming off of injury with weight issues that haven’t played serious ball in a couple of years don’t really command much.

Best case is that he is recommitted and in shape and can provide 15-20 minutes a night off the bench. Worst case is he signs, gets killed in camp repeatedly and is sent packing. Zero risk here.

THANK YOU!

All three of those guys are good.

…well, May’s good when he’s in shape. Which isn’t all the time.

But still… Some team is going to be very, very happy with Powe. And I actually wrote a blog post the other day about Diogu – it’s crazy to me how he’s toiled at the end of the bench for so long. I really, really hope that May can remain healthy/fit enough to help the Kings (or wherever he ends up signing).

Because Powe has the heart. Diogu and May haven’t really showed they have the heart.

Sign and trade Noce and Beno and a second rounder to Lakers for Odom on a 2 year deal player option for 3.