akirac73
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So you hate 90% of Jazzfanz posters?...
Where Does Hood End Up?
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mellow
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Boston says hello.
freakazoid
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And if Haywood had re-signed, we'd have a 51(probably 55/healthy) win team that just added the best rookie in the draft and one of the best teams in the league. DL set this team up really well and had the bad luck of Boston having the perfect coach and a ton of assets and perfect timing. **** happens, but acting like DL has been incompetent is a stretch. He could have been better, but is still pretty damn good.
Also, I've said this a million times, and will continue as long as DL is being trashed, but the really big mistake in our rebuild belongs to KOC during the lockout year. That was the year to be proactive in rebuilding and Utah lost by far the most value in terms of assets by deciding to chase the playoffs that year. DL still should have blown it up as well, but by then most of the damage was already done.
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freakazoid
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There are plenty of guys who are going to be higher on wish lists and a very limited amount of money to go around. Not to mention Hood's pre-game jitters that make it certain he's going to miss a certain amount of games every year. I'm betting he gets a 4 year 55-60 deal at best.
elan_prodigy
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Doubt it. I think DL knows what offers Hood will be looking at in RFA. If it was $15Mil/yr we would be crazy to move him.
freakazoid
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As for where Hood ends up, my guess is
Pelicans
Cavs
Sixers
Pelicans
Cavs
Sixers
I expect some team will throw him a contract in the 20 mill per range. Maybe even more than that. Remember when Allen Crabbe signed an offer sheet for like 19 mill per over 4 years? And he never put up numbers anywhere near Rodney's. Basketball fans always expect there to be less money around then there ultimately is and then they are blown away by the numbers some players get offered.
freakazoid
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You mean like he knew what Haywood would be offered? Nobody knows for sure, but it's not hard to find a list of FAs and compare it to the amount of teams who will have money. As of now I believe there are about 5-6 teams that will have enough money to make an offer. There could be several more that can clear some cap, but Hood is nowhere close to the top of the FA class.
DL is not looking to dump Hood because he's worried about a big offer. The FA landscape this year is night and day different than it was with Kanter. If that was the case, DL would have tried to dump Hood a lot sooner.
Look around the league and it's easy to find players who misread the changing FA money available. Hill, Noel, etc. lost out on a lot of money because things have changed drastically from where they were a year ago. The main reason being because the salary cap came in 9 million lower than expected.
Anyway, as I like to say, hide and watch. DL may be shopping Hood, but it's not because he's desperate to dump him like he was with kanter.
Et tu Brute
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Saric is way more valuable though right?
I mean he is becoming a pretty rugged offensive rebound threat and has a versatile offensive game. Seems to have gotten a little better this year defensively - but that is the eye test only.
elan_prodigy
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I really like him.
Hood as a spot up shooter is perfect along side Big Benz and Embiid. Saric is limited playing along side them. Win-win if you ask me.
elan_prodigy
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That makes no sense. Hoods RFA has nothing to do with Benedicts UFA. DL had no control of the decision. He would have guaged interest in Hood over the years and it wouldnt be too hard to find out if a team was going after him in RFA.
Any GM in the league signs Hood at $15Mil/yr.
