Zach Lowe wrote about O'Quinn. We have plenty of guys who can score - Olynyk, Sullinger, Jerebko, it wouldn't hurt to have a defense only guy too if he is cheap.
- But there’s an intriguing player in here, and some team should pay a bit above market to see if it can coax that player out —
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-nba-groupon-games-which-players-are-the-next-free-agent-steals/
I like O'Quinn. He's a workman. I was always surprised he wasn't getting more minutes in Orlando. If you play fantasy basketball at all, O'Quinn was one of the best per-minute performers over the last couple years. He can do a lot of everything. If Boston wasn't already filled with mediocre bigs, I'd say we should sign him off our bench.
Bummer we didn't sign Biyombo. $3 mil a year seems about right given what he's accomplished thus far. My thing with Bis has always been that he seemed like the kind of kid that filled a real need (rebounding, rim protection) and could be a real surprise "buy low" candidate. I was never salivating over him due to what he's already done. I was salivating over him due to what he could do. He's a solid rim protector with an underdeveloped game, but still has time to figure it out. Some blogs threw out the idea that he'd cost upwards of $10 mil per year in this free agent market, because Bis was a restricted free agent and you'd have to overpay to steal. Once the Hornets made him an unrestricted free agent, the "overpay" scenario was off the table. Zach Lowe had previously written about Biyombo being a free agent steal this year and predicted he'd get somewhere around 3-5 mil. Masai is a quality GM and he snatched him up for cheap. Will be interesting to see what kind of role he has there.
Considering that we just gave Amir Johnson 12 million dollars and gave Jerebko $5 mil... this is a real bargain. It's a win for our division rivals.
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