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RC said as much in his Q&A sitdown, that they wouldn't have been able to afford him if he were on the open market. Good value, low risk signing.
I watched McCallum a lot during his rookie season; and I can tell you that he's nothing special. A youtube vid of him making some shots does not change that reality.
The fact is that we had a great option in place with Bryce Cotton; but the Spurs were too risk averse to his size.
BC had a 60.2 TS and 22.4 ppg in 40 mpg.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...ottobr02d.html
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To play devil's advocate to my natural line of thinking; McCallum may be more of the system player that the Spurs are looking for. The FO may want a guy who just swings the ball and not have another Cojo, who over dribbled. But from a raw talent standpoint: Cotton > McCallum
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RC said as much in his Q&A sitdown, that they wouldn't have been able to afford him if he were on the open market. Good value, low risk signing.
This seems like faulty thinking, IMO. Salaries at this level are exponential, not linear. It's a mistake to assume McCallum would command that much on the open market. As yet he's essentially untested, plus has the stink of Sacramento on him (while Joseph enjoyed a San Antonio premium). I think Ray would be looking at minimum offers and/or d-League berths, were he not under contract.
Probably to piss you off and it's working like a charm
I don't see any downside to the trade.
My guess is the Spurs like is ability to penetrate and score at the rim. Those kind of players can be more successful as teams move away from 7 footers clogging the lane and essentially replacing them with power forwards. Plus I anticipate with all the power forwards on the team being able to shoot midrange jumpers, the lane should be wide open.
Yep. Not to mention that the Spurs' top 4 bigs all have the ability to step outside and hit the jumper. The Spurs will need cutters and weak side shooters.
Shouldn't it piss off any real Spurs fan since it cost us a series? Only Enrique fans shouldn't have a problem with it tbh.
see... It works... Dat pop is smart tbh
keep on whining it's fun
There's a difference between circular reasoning and tautology.
He's young and quick.... Sounds like someone I used to know.
-Doc.
Shouldn't McCallum be also playing in SL for the Spurs? Shouldn't he have done what Simmons did? Hop on the next plane to Vegas!
Nah, anyone who can do a decent job at starting PG for 30 games is going to get a lot more than the minimum. Mere competence at this position really runs at a premium.
That's because circular reasoning is circular reasoning and tautology is tautology and they're different.
Is starting in Sacramento evidence of competence?
Yes. It's the NBA.
Really? Then why did Aaron Brooks, Shane Larkin, Ronnie Price, Jeremy Lin and others not make bank? Don't say it's because they can't do a 'decent job' at starting PG (starting wasn't the qualifier, anyway) or are demonstrably worse than Ray McCallum. No, McCallum couldn't command $10 million in the open market. Not now, maybe in the future.
I said he would make more than the minimum. All the people you listed made more than the minimum. None of them are looking at D-League berths.
No, you said a lot more than minimum. And I was responding to a specific post which wasn't talking about the minimum in any way.
What you did there was very nice. Very nice was what you did there.
What were you talking about then?
When you were talking about D-League and minimum contracts, you should probably list guys who are making D-League and minimum contracts.
I say the answer i somewhere between that and CJ's salary, which is much more than the minimum when you get right down to it.
arguing market value for a third string PG.
Apparently RC thinks he's s good value for his current salary, but what does it really matter? The kid is likely not going to mean to this team what CoJo meant, but hopefully they won't be put in a position to test it. He looks good enough to give spot assignments or garbage blowout minutes, and that's all he should be called on to do. If he exceeds then it's gravy.
When you reply to a post that is replying to something before it, you should read the quoted post, alright? That way you are actually likely to say something vaguely useful to the topic instead of what turns out to be unrelated nonsense.
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