Skill set and size wise have always been a fan of D-mo. Our inside scoring is rather lacking outside of alley-oops/dunks plus although he wasn't the most athletic I remember a stat showing D-mo having a significant impact on opposing players FG% on the defensive end. Was a big fan of D-mo until the contract situation. We can blame the agent but at the end of the day he agreed to it also. He lost my support then, weak mentally and lost out on millions but still will probably argue today that he made the right choice. #femaletendencies
Even if it is NOT DMo - if we can find a 3pt shooting center....oooooh baby! He would just be super low risk and a rental for this season. DD
Cleveland owns their championship totally to DMo's buttsweat! Curry was not the same player after the injury.
here is the Cliff Notes version... DMo and his agent thought he was worth a lot more than the Rockets or the rest of the league did. Hilarity ensued.
He did sue, and got paid already, they settled last year. He did screw up - but I guarantee he did not settle for low money, he got PAID....for his silence. Too bad it is not public record, folks might be madder than the Matt Maloney contract. DD
That's a bit sticky icky. Good point about size, but I'm fine without headaches. It's not like we're 7 deep in a 9 man rotation.
https://pics.me.me/everybody-knows-you-never-go-full-r****d-28519518.png Glad to hear that DD! Because everybody knows.... ....... ....... .......
Couple key points, DMO and his agent had both a general miscalculation, and a specific miscalculation: 1. (General Miscalculation) - Nets were willing to pay DMO because they were under the min cap by roughly the amount they were willing to pay DMO, thus DMO was basically going to be of zero extra cost to the organization. There was pretty much zero risk for the Nets. However, the fact that they were willing to pay DMO inflated his expectations when dealing with the Rockets. If the Nets hadn't been in this position DMO may have been more reasonable in dealing with the Rockets. 2 (Specific Miscalculation) - DMO refused to take his physical, having passed the Net's physical, as a way to protest the lack of incentives in the matched contract, and perhaps because he was paranoid that the Rockets would try to fail him. However, this put him in breach of contract. What he may not have realized is that according to the CBA was this meant that he now couldn't go back to the Nets if things didn't work out with the Rockets (which they didn't). If he had taken the physical and failed, he would have automatically gone back to the Nets. The Nets and DMO both appealed to the NBA to make their original contract go through and the NBA denied them. So I assume the lawsuit was based on this weird arbitrary rule in the CBA that kept DMO from going back to the Nets, when the Nets were still willing to take him.
8.5 Nets filed grievance about incentive term changes in second contract as not true matching and NBA agreed and nixed deal and DMo's RFA status that I think affected his rights as well. Essentially made it impossible for Rockets to make acceptable changes to deal. This is also after the failed trade to the Pistons due to the physical. I doubt his bad back will ever be right. Another wasted asset.
DD - I totally get where you're coming from. Many won't acknowledge , forget, or couldnt see the player he was becoming before the back injury. 7 footer that could run like a deer ..elite post game, a feel for the floor sees/passes/synergistic .....could bust from downtown. ..good position D. Anyway, that guy's gone...sad, but true..damaged goods..a shell. Add on the confluence of events which concluded with a legal settlement. Look, I was one of his biggest supporters, but don't see this ever happening. Cut the cord.
