Travis Outlaw Joins Kings For $12 Million Over Four Years

Shame though, i think he’ll be a better fit for us. But at the rate of Outlaw’s contract, i’m not bummed abut this acquisition.

but can’t shake the feeling that Outlaw is gonna be either a complete steal at 3mil, or a complete bust. Still, at least our bench got a little deeper, and hopefully a lot more consistent (hopefully not consistently bad).

Now all we need to do is install ticketing systems on all our players, we’ll be able to make enough money from opposing NBA teams to build our arena by seasons end.

Because they’re gonna blow past our guys like turnstiles. But that’s a problem for another thread.

But did u guys see westphal ripping tyreke in a sac bee article. http://blogs.sacbee.com/sports/kings/archives/2011/12/westphal-calls.html#

Outlaw grew anxious living up to the big contract NJ signed him to.

Hopefully at 3 mil he becomes the player he was in Portland.

We “won” the Outlaw bidding at $3mil, and Billups goes for $2.5mil?!? This seems odd.

On April 17, 1998, Outlaw recorded 25 points, 13 rebounds, and 10 assists in a 121-109 win over the New Jersey Nets. After the game, reporters asked him how he felt about his first triple-double, to which Outlaw famously replied “What’s that, some kind of hamburger?”

But certainly made the team a bit better than before. For a team striving for any improvement, even incremental ones are a-ok.

Also, I’m looking at that Minnesota team, and I admit I’m a bit jealous.

I think I am done with this whole Garcia thing and say lets just be done with him already. I say we Amnetsy him and focus on getting 1 more big. DO YOU ALL AGREE OR THINK IM WAY OFF BASE???

That Petrie would touch this guy with a ten foot pole shows he’s lost something.

as much as their opinion of Travis Outlaw. (For that I applaud them because both these guys are not part of the future.) But its like an admission is “we are really bad at this position so lets go sign this guy so we are less really bad”.

Its fair to grant that last year was an anomaly, and he was playing slightly out of position (back-up 3 vs 4) since his PER was steady at 15.0 for a few seasons, and he’s young enough to regain his best form, but I still think this signing sucks. It is low risk, low reward signing, but there is no end game to his addition than adding a meddling player with mediocre to worse skill set.

Lets hope Outlaw surprises, but see what Hollinger says and try to get excited:

One of the poster children for the lockout: After signing a five-year, $35 million deal, then playing as if he were an 11th man for the Dakota Wizards, Outlaw’s career is at a crossroads. We saw signs of slippage in 2009-10, but nobody could have expected the crash and burn in 2010-11. Part of the problem, I maintain, is how he’s used. Outlaw was effective in Portland when he could play big chunks of the game as a small-ball 4 against backup power forwards, something he hasn’t been able to do the past two seasons.

He has made surprisingly little advancement in his basketball IQ in eight pro seasons. Outlaw still doesn’t have a great feel for the game off the ball and rarely uses his length and athleticism to get to the rim, preferring instead to shoot long Js off the dribble. He can shoot them over most defenders, but these are good shots only late in the clock; Outlaw routinely takes them earlier. Overall, two-thirds of his shots were from 16 feet or beyond, an odd strategy for an average shooter who stands 6-foot-9.

With all that said, he won’t be as bad as he was a year ago. Faint praise, I know, but that 30.2 percent mark on 3s is bound to improve, and the Nets will probably figure out how to put him in better situations.

Outlaw needs to be a major offensive contributor to be useful, because defensively he doesn’t offer a lot. Although he’s very long, Outlaw is all arms and legs and can’t get out of his own way. Once he starts going one way, he has no chance of changing direction quickly. His lack of coordination leads to near-comic sequences chasing players through screens off the ball, and his lack of strength means he can’t
play 4 more regularly. Synergy rated him among the league’s worst defenders, and his plus-minus supports that.

Yikes.

And if this signing means the end to the pursuit of AK47, or return of Peja-vu, it doubly sucks.

Once upon a time, The good the bad and the ugly, for a few dollars more, the outlaw Travis Outlaw… hang em high

PG: Jimmer
SG: Reke
SF: Salmons
PF: Travis Outlaw
C: DeMarcus Cousins

That’s cold-blooded right there. Each and every one of those guys has proven they can hit the dagger(minus Cousins who’d be there for screens and passes and a threat to hit the 18 footer if the defense sags onto the guards).

It is pretty obvious he just likes playing in the
pacific time zone. His natural clock will be in time again, and that is the difference between hitting the rim on a jumper and swishing it through.

But I don’t like this pickup. Further quagmiring our roster in mediocrity makes no sense. We needed a defensive-minded power forward – Outlaw is not this.

Six Guards; Eight Forwards (Nine Counting Cousins and Outlaw); Three Centers (Counting Cousins), including a possible cardiac case, but at least we have Whiteside——Priceless!

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Salmons will be out with his knee injury l for a long period of time?

So they have to try to improve the squad incrementally while retaining flexibility. So they are trying to add guys that are slightly better than the guys we have and be fairly deep down the roster for when the inevitable injuries occur.

No money? No problem.

Its the new board game put out by the Maloof Brothers, whose philosophy is: Why put out big money for an NBA player, when you can pick up a player for Chump Change?

Teach your children the value of a dollar with this game. Get it in stores now, in time for the holidays.

I bet the Maloofs told Petrie to get whoever he wants, as long as it’s good value. They put in their offer for AK47, figuring he’s probably the only guy out there that would be worth a biggish payday for this team right now (though, I have no idea what they’re thinking on Dally right now, it’s been a weird offseason in regards to Sammy in his dealings with the Kings and with any other team). They’re probably a little frustrated with how the AK situation is going down, were hoping to have the roster set by the start of games, don’t see any remaining FA that they want to throw a deal at, would’ve probably liked to bid on Billups if he wasn’t throwing a bitch fit, saw Outlaw hit the waiver wire and figured this was a good chance to get good value on a probable rotation player.

Now they’re over the minimum, are a lot less reliant on inexperienced players than in previous years, have good depth for a brutal schedule (not the deepest talent, but at least not a huge drop-off through most of the roster), and still have a huge amount of cap and trade flexibility moving forward. Signing Gasol or Nene would have been nice, but if this is the last move the Kings make until the trade deadline, I’d say they feel pretty good about their offseason. There are a ton of reasons to expect that they’ll be a much better team than last year, and a lot of other teams can’t say that. Time to roll the ball out there, hope the guys all gel and take a good step forward this season, and give us all something to cheer for. Let the Outlaw era begin!