Posted by simrud:

A rebounder of his ability is invaluable. Just look at Ben Wallace.

No... seems to me like he was drawing a comparison between the two. And to call Sweetney invaluable is gross overstatement. Overstatement of sweetney's contributions was the point of me jumping on the thread.

Invaluable would mean that he's so good you can't even put a price on his head, meaning we wouldn't trade him for anybody. Dude is averaging like 3.5 rpg (impressive considering he's getting 10 minutes a-game). Invaluable? No.

Posted by fishmike:

I DONT want that money used to get Sheed.. he's just too old and mental.

Now, this man is talking sense.

Sheed would have been exciting for the stretch run of this season. But making a long term commtiment to him would have been gross error. Player who are head cases when they're good are bigger head cases as their skills start to decline.

Posted by martin:

TRU, Fish, let me get this straight. You would not want $5M worth of weed? Er, $5M MLE of Weed?

LOL nice...
I'd take the former over the latter anyday!
LOL

Ditto to Fish.

I wonder how the association is going to respond to his free agency.

One school of thought is that he's got talent, so many teams will compete for his service.

The other side is that the free agent market is deep enough that many teams may not want to deal with his reputation.

But for the MLE? Sign'em.

the thing with Sheed is his options are pretty limited. Our MLE isnt doing it but a sign and trade including cash isnt impossible. Nazr, Moochie, $3 mill and a #2 isnt that far fetched.

I just don't see anyone Detroit would want. They don't even need Sheed....Sheed makes them legit though.

I was on real GM and I really couldn't figure out what Detroit would want in a sign and trade....Moochie and Nazr with money and a pick? If we had Sheed and he was gonna be a free agent would you do that sign and trade with Detroit? I seriously doubt it.

The only thing we have going for us is Westchester. Will Sheed's family absolutely fall in love with it? Will he walk away from a team that has Rip, Chancey, Ben, and a decent bench for a near max contract to play with Marbury for 5 mil? It's just too much of a pipe dream.