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kekgeek1 wrote:This is where I dislike the Taj contact.

Patrick Patterson signed a 3 year 16 mil contact with a player option for the 3rd year.

9 mil a year difference between him and taj. Still don't think whoever we signed would have moved the needle a ton but we would have 13 mil left going the Patterson route instead of taj

Yeah, as others have said, Taj isn't a bad player by any stretch, but this feels like a classic overpay.

kekgeek1 wrote:This is where I dislike the Taj contact.

Patrick Patterson signed a 3 year 16 mil contact with a player option for the 3rd year.

9 mil a year difference between him and taj. Still don't think whoever we signed would have moved the needle a ton but we would have 13 mil left going the Patterson route instead of taj

Wanted Patterson all along. Though the Taj signing was shortsighted. Maybe OKC is more attractive to him, but even 3/18 would've been 10x better. Plus we couldve offered him a starter role with about 24-28 mins. Love his perimeter d/switch d and three point shot. This sucks.

TheFuture wrote:

kekgeek1 wrote:This is where I dislike the Taj contact.

Patrick Patterson signed a 3 year 16 mil contact with a player option for the 3rd year.

9 mil a year difference between him and taj. Still don't think whoever we signed would have moved the needle a ton but we would have 13 mil left going the Patterson route instead of taj

Wanted Patterson all along. Though the Taj signing was shortsighted. Maybe OKC is more attractive to him, but even 3/18 would've been 10x better. Plus we couldve offered him a starter role with about 24-28 mins. Love his perimeter d/switch d and three point shot. This sucks.

In the end neither of taj or Patterson are moving the needle significantly so don't get mad.

kekgeek1 wrote:

TheFuture wrote:

kekgeek1 wrote:This is where I dislike the Taj contact.

Patrick Patterson signed a 3 year 16 mil contact with a player option for the 3rd year.

9 mil a year difference between him and taj. Still don't think whoever we signed would have moved the needle a ton but we would have 13 mil left going the Patterson route instead of taj

Wanted Patterson all along. Though the Taj signing was shortsighted. Maybe OKC is more attractive to him, but even 3/18 would've been 10x better. Plus we couldve offered him a starter role with about 24-28 mins. Love his perimeter d/switch d and three point shot. This sucks.

In the end neither of taj or Patterson are moving the needle significantly so don't get mad.

Sure they do. We can't play with just 5 guys and expect to be competitive. One signing could've netted us 2-3 players, the other nets us one. When you lack a bench (just like last season, he'll even worse) you will lose games, no doubt about it. Especially with how competitive the West is now 1-11/12

OKC getting Patterson for that deal for me does make me frustrated with the Gibson signing. I personally think Gibson is a better player but not nearly 3 times the money per player as Patterson and the fit asa perimeter oriented big is obvious. Let's see what they are able to do the rest of the offseason though. If Patterson only got that deal...that's a good sign that things are starting to get tight and guys like Olnyk are hitting the market and are going to get some decent money.

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Free agent guard Nick Young has agreed to a one-year, $5.2M deal with the Golden State Warriors, agent Mark Bartelstein tells ESPN.

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Free agent guard Nick Young has agreed to a one-year, $5.2M deal with the Golden State Warriors, agent Mark Bartelstein tells ESPN.

I'm fine with this. If he's awesome, let him be awesome with a team that is untouchable anyway. If he sucks, then I'm glad he's not with us.

See how I can rationalize this into good news?

Seriously though, I'm not too upset about "losing" him to Golden State.

I'm not either. Just wondering what the Wolves next move is. It was reported a little bit ago that the Pacers are engaged with 1 other team regarding CJ Miles S&T deals and they were a little further along than the Wolves talks.

Well then here is some more "rationalization": Good think we didn't have more cap space, otherwise we might have outbid Golden State for Swaggy P's services! :-D

CJ miles and Vince carter are the hopefuls now!