Still with a traditional center like Jerome Jordan I dont know how much development he's gonna get in Europe b/c of style of play. We really need to get control of a D-league team so we can hire a coaching staff to ensure the development of our players the way we want. I think we continue to go about this the wrong way.

smackeddog wrote:Actually there was a similar thread to this on another site, and someone explained it so it makes more sense: Rautins was signed first because he was just about to play for the Canadian team (the timing of it was just a day or two before, I think)- maybe he needed a contract for insurance reasons, or Walsh did it as a favour for him. Maybe JJ hasn't been signed because they want him to play abroad, but maybe Fields hasn't been because it basically puts us over the cap (or very very close), which in turn means we then couldn't trade the Golden state players because we'd be over the cap (don't know if this is true)- so he's basically holding off signing the other rookies just to keep flexibility for the rest of the offseason, and the only reason he signed Rautins early was because he was playing for Canada.