Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Bibby Re-Ups....

I'm on record that I would hate this move regardless....but I ESPECIALLY hate it now...

Mike Bibby signs for 3 years/18 million.....yes, the 6 million per is semi-reasonable, I'll grant you that...his open-market value is definitely in that neighborhood....but there are 5 main reasons I dislike this move....

1) 3 years is absolutely absurd for a point guard with declining skills, ESPECIALLY when you just drafted a 1st round PG....
2) Speaking of that 1st round PG, how can you get him enough floor time with Bibby/Crawford/Joe? This has all the makings of an Acie Law burial on the bench....and that can't be justified....
3) You've just signed a point guard who can't push the ball, can't distribute, and may be the worst defensive PG in the entire league right now...So you have 4 guards right now (5 if you count Mo Evans as a guard) and exactly zero of them are distributors....the best passer is Joe Johnson who is also the leading scorer....and Jamal Crawford, Teague, and Bibby are all well-below average defenders (reportedly Teague is flat-out awful at this stage)...
4) Where is the money now? By my calculations...there are still some pretty significant holes on this team....the starting swing position occupied by Marvin Williams is currently open...yes, Marvin is reportedly favoring returning to the Hawks, but if somebody blows him out of the water and the Hawks don't match...that hole is gaping....same for ZaZa Pachulia...he's unrestricted...meaning no matching possibility... and he's the only capable backup to Al Horford OR Josh Smith currently on the roster....that's bad news.....and then there's Josh Childress...still owned by the Hawks...restricted free agent...Milwaukee is interested...but the Hawks are going to instantly match any offer sheet in an effort to engineer a sign-and-trade...needless to say....there isn't a lot of money and there are a lot of holes...
5) Where is this team headed? This move signals a laziness on the part of the ownership/GM by basically bidding to keep a 47-win team together with Jamal Crawford instead of Flip Murray (an upgrade, sure, but an overpriced, minimal one)... You can't pay Crawford $9 million to be this year's Flip Murray when Murray was making 1/5 of that last year to do the same thing (roughly)...I can't wait for the Marvin qualifying offer to round things off for 2009-10 in a stagnant mess...

All in all...I don't hate Mike Bibby...I don't even hate his game...he's a very above-average shooter for the position (maybe one of the top 3-5 in the L), but I dislike the fit...and the length (most of all)....Rick Sund...not on my favorites list...

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