C's should sign Adonal Foyle

[Kim Malo]

At 10:13 PM 8/13/2007, Mark Piotrowski wrote:
>I've never seen what the big deal was with Scal and his contract

Well I'm not one of the knee jerk Scal bashers and wish they would 
lose the would-be witty little nickname that says a lot more about 
the person using it than about Scal, but I have no problem seeing the 
big deal - it's the 5 years ...tieing up limited resources of cash 
and roster spot that could be better used. I don't care if you pay 
him $3MM for a year or so but you don't sign end of the bench 
infinitely replaceable parts that you should be always looking to 
upgrade ASAP to 5 year contracts. You just don't. He's an improvement 
over the Sundov and Rubens who occupied the end of the bench a few 
years ago, but that's the point - they were only signed to a year or 
so and so you readily turned them over for improved replacements.

>  -- i'm pretty sure we've disagreed on
>that over the years.  They're end of the bench guys.  I would have
>rather gone after guys who fit this team better or filled needs
>(Mikki Moore when he left SEA or Darrick Martin when he signed with
>TOR)

Exactly - see above about why you don't tie your hands by signing 
Scal to a 5 year contract.

>and that's what I see Foyle as.

Fair enough and de gustibus. As I said, my view's probably colored by 
listening to my friend the Golden State fan talk about him the past 
few years, but he's underimpressed me when I've seen him.  Stats are 
fine but you find stats to "prove" anything - I'm very good at doing 
it myself. The results haven't done much for me. And I don't see him 
as somehow outstanding in how well he'll fit here and fit our needs, 
separate from what I think of him per se. But I've never considered 
myself a virtual GM wizard so if they go after him, hopefully your 
evaluation is the right one.

Kim