He’s the same height as Cisco, but he has about 20 lbs. on him.

He only really played the 2 in New York

The only reason I bring that up is that the 1st year amount may not be as important as the length of the contract and the amount of guaranteed money. After all Dalembert has been one of the best iron men when it comes to injuries, so even at 30 years of age, I don’t think a 4-5 year contract at least partially guaranteed in the final year isn’t out of the question. Also, with our cap space we could front load his contract.

but, since we haven’t already offered an extension, I’m guessing that we don’t want to overbid. Max last season for a 9 yr players was 28% of the salary cap and Sam was at 80% of that. If the Cap drops to $50M, the equivalent to Sam’s salary this season would be $10M under the new Cap and the MLE would be just below $5M. So, a 4yr contract starting a $7M with the final season only partially guaranteed sounds like a reasonable offer to me. I’m also assuming that the raises will drop below the current 10%.

I’d love to see this analysis on how it brings teams down.

But his abilities are more or less where they are gonna be. He may become more consistent, in line with the end of the season, but his room to develop is kind of limited. Remember he wasn’t a one and done guy. He came out after his Junior year I think.

Same reason why I think Kembla Walker doesn’t have that great if value

As a center, he’s a terrible shot blocker, a below average rebounder, and has little to no post game as yet. 67% of his shots were away from the basket and he only shot 50% on the 22% of his shots that were in close. Defensively, he’s easily backed down into the paint where he is easily beaten.

JT is fine as the 3rd big because he can play the PF spot along side DeMarcus or Sammy. Can he play the Center, yes, he’s 6-11 and 260, but he doesn’t yet have the skill set of a low post scorer or defender. And, I don’t see him creating any problem for guards who penetrate the paint.

I don’t think he would be very effective without a big 3 to draw all the attention

Here’s the link: http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/knicks/post/_/id/4920/on-the-matter-of-samuel-dalembert

There is one other point, once the FA market opens, offers to Restricted FA’s can be matched by their original club within 7 days. So chasing after other FA’s, might create a problem in resigning our own. Unless your absolutely certain that you can sign one of your two suggestions, your taking a risk that someone else will sign Sam while your waiting the 7 days for your pie in the sky dream player to chose you.

And, as I said elsewhere, I believe you need a player along side DeMarcus that can defend PF’s until his defense improves. He’s just not quick enough to stay in front of quicker PF’s especially away from the paint. Just because Gasol works well with Z-Bo doesn’t necessarily transfer to DeMarcus.

they always get somebody willing to sell their souls.

I don’t think they can with all the money tied up. He may want to go there but I don’t think he’ll take 2 or 3 mil a year out of his pocket to do it.

Miami will shoot for a decent big or a young developing big.

We’ll offer him 7-8 mil a year.

Thornton is good and after that we have……… Exactly. We would need to get someone else for sure.

But I have an unorthodox reasoning for my comment. We do agree about Iggy, fine. But Gasol is better defensively in my opinion because it also includes his ability to put the ball in the basket.

What I mean is, because Gasol is a much better offensive player, the ball will go in the basket more. This would give our defense more time to set after a made basket because it takes longer for the other teams’ offense to get set and thereby eliminates or hinders fast break opportunities.

Also, Gasol has better rebounds per game and blocks per game this year. But those stats could be misleading because it does not take into account the per minute factor. But I’m too lazy to look it up. If I did, I would not be surprised to find Daly leading in both those categories though.