mute
01-05-2014, 06:29 PM
With Tiago Splitter going down with a shoulder injury and has status for the foreseeable future in doubt, I tried to think of possible replacements for him... for sure, we would love to have Andrew Bynum, but his contract is too massive for us to take on and we'd have to give up Splitter and Danny Green to make the contacts match.
However, a name that kept coming up over and over was Raef LaFrentz. LaFrentz was one of the best big mans in the early 2000s. He was mobile, could run the floor, and had an arsenal of post moves (mid range game, jump hook, turn around, fadeway). He was a beast defensively (had great length at 6'11") and was just a total bruiser down low (averaged 3 blocks one season) and athletic as hell (imagine Aron Baynes but 20 times better).
I remember his days in Dallas when we played them. I was thinking "Dang, I wish this guy played for us". Now 10 years later, I wouldn't have ever thought it was a real possibility of him suiting up for us.
What do you guys think about the prospect of bringing back LaFrentz for a 10 day contract and seeing what he has left? From what I remembered, he was a great locker guy. He'd be cheap and we can afford him.
In the famous 2003 series against us, he scored in double figures three times, had games of four and five blocks, and had 12 boards in a losing effort in Game 6 (the same game that Steve Kerr, who now works for TNT, went off in).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL4rBFnlq9I
http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/179/542/284153.jpg.6813_display_image.jpg
However, a name that kept coming up over and over was Raef LaFrentz. LaFrentz was one of the best big mans in the early 2000s. He was mobile, could run the floor, and had an arsenal of post moves (mid range game, jump hook, turn around, fadeway). He was a beast defensively (had great length at 6'11") and was just a total bruiser down low (averaged 3 blocks one season) and athletic as hell (imagine Aron Baynes but 20 times better).
I remember his days in Dallas when we played them. I was thinking "Dang, I wish this guy played for us". Now 10 years later, I wouldn't have ever thought it was a real possibility of him suiting up for us.
What do you guys think about the prospect of bringing back LaFrentz for a 10 day contract and seeing what he has left? From what I remembered, he was a great locker guy. He'd be cheap and we can afford him.
In the famous 2003 series against us, he scored in double figures three times, had games of four and five blocks, and had 12 boards in a losing effort in Game 6 (the same game that Steve Kerr, who now works for TNT, went off in).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL4rBFnlq9I
http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/179/542/284153.jpg.6813_display_image.jpg