gunsnewing wrote:They play the same position as Melo, Early & Wear. We need to chill with adding SF's

Thomas is a guy that coaches love and he is called a glue guy. Not a bad guy to have on your team. He is the only small forward of the 3 guys brought in. He is still a young guy and very well may have a much better career then Wear.

F500ONE wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:Yeah, I'm not overly impressed with Amundson or Thomas, but you can do a lot worse for end of the bench guys. It can't hurt to have guys who compete on the team.

They better not make the team over the kids

If they do that's another missing rung on Phil's ladder of rebuilding

The lack of development from this franchise is an absolute travesty

Maybe Thomas can be a potential 10-12 man out of desperation

Galloway should make it as he truly fills a needed position role

Lou and Lance do not want looking at our future

Too much emphasis is placed on development. You can't develop guys workout having real professional players around to show them the ropes.

Development has more to do with players as an individual. You can't force guys to be good they have to want it. I have no problems waiving wear and keeping lance and lou once we start to settle in on free agents. Wear to me hasn't improved at all and hasn't shown he will get after it. I want to keep him but I'm not wishing on a star to hope he becomes a nba player. Lance and lou are nba players. In a short time they already proceed their worth. They aren't going to blow you away with stats but they make good things happen and you need these type of guys to win.

VCoug wrote:It's a joke that Amundson is still on this team and that we haven't used his roster spot on some D-leaguer that might have a chance of being good.

he might be let go after this 10 day is up

Question...
It's been a while
How does it work if we choose to sign Galloway & Lance. Can you extend them or just sign them for the rest of the year and extend or lose them in the offseason?

CrushAlot wrote:

VCoug wrote:It's a joke that Amundson is still on this team and that we haven't used his roster spot on some D-leaguer that might have a chance of being good.

Why not waive Bargs and keep Amundson? Seems like he has had a positive impact on the team.

Bargs should be waived after the trade deadline. Same with Amare. They both have large expiring contracts that might be able to bring back an asset for us. After 2/19, both should be waived and their spots filled with D-leaguers.

Amundson, and Jason Smith for that matter, should both be waived for D-leaguers.

VCoug wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:

VCoug wrote:It's a joke that Amundson is still on this team and that we haven't used his roster spot on some D-leaguer that might have a chance of being good.

he might be let go after this 10 day is up

Question...
It's been a while
How does it work if we choose to sign Galloway & Lance. Can you extend them or just sign them for the rest of the year and extend or lose them in the offseason?

A 10-day contract is just that, a player contract which lasts ten days (or three games, whichever comes later). Teams may sign players to 10-day contracts starting January 51 each season. Teams cannot sign players to 10-day contracts that would extend past their last regular season game. In other words, after their 80th game (64th in 2011-12) or after the 10th day before their last regular season game (whichever comes first) teams can no longer sign 10-day contracts.

A team may sign an individual player to two 10-day contracts in one season (they may or may not be consecutive). After the second 10-day contract, the team can only retain the player by signing him for at least the remainder of the season. A team can't have more 10-day contracts than they have players on their Inactive List, except if a team has 13 players on its Active List, it can have one more 10-day contract than they have players on their Inactive List.

The base salary in a 10-day contract is negotiable, although they are almost always signed for the minimum salary. The salary is then pro-rated for the number of days covered by the contract (10 days or three games, whichever is longer).

I interpret that to mean we can offer a multiyear deal either player.

You can do with them what the Jazz just did

With Elijah Milsap, I've made several posts on this

We can even do it with Thanasis if we wanted

There is no such thing as too much emphasis on young talent

When a team like ours hasn't developed any

Go through the rest of the league and every playoff team, elite team

Has done so

TPercy wrote:

VCoug wrote:It's a joke that Amundson is still on this team and that we haven't used his roster spot on some D-leaguer that might have a chance of being good.

You do realize that we are short on bigs right now and there arn't that many decent bigs in the d league that would be good here. Besides, Amundson is a good role player, he plays good Defense and helps move the ball around on offense. A number of the fouls that he got last night should not have been fouls, (reffing was below par last night).

Are we really short?

Acy, Wear, Cole don't count as 4s and 5s

F500ONE wrote:

TPercy wrote:

VCoug wrote:It's a joke that Amundson is still on this team and that we haven't used his roster spot on some D-leaguer that might have a chance of being good.

You do realize that we are short on bigs right now and there arn't that many decent bigs in the d league that would be good here. Besides, Amundson is a good role player, he plays good Defense and helps move the ball around on offense. A number of the fouls that he got last night should not have been fouls, (reffing was below par last night).

Are we really short?

Acy, Wear, Cole don't count as 4s and 5s

Wear is a ginormous 3 really, at the 4 there is no doubt that Amundson is better than him (for now)
Cole has terrible fitness but sure, yes he does count
Acy is a stretch four.

VCoug wrote:

TPercy wrote:

VCoug wrote:It's a joke that Amundson is still on this team and that we haven't used his roster spot on some D-leaguer that might have a chance of being good.

You do realize that we are short on bigs right now and there arn't that many decent bigs in the d league that would be good here. Besides, Amundson is a good role player, he plays good Defense and helps move the ball around on offense. A number of the fouls that he got last night should not have been fouls, (reffing was below par last night).

Willie Reed

Jordan Hamilton

Khem Birch

JaMychal Green was only recently called up by SA.

Tarik Black was only recently called up by LAL.

Lou Amundson sucks: he's 32-years old; he's played for 10 different teams in 9 years, and only once has he played more than one season for a team; he's never played more than 15 minutes/game until he got here.