The Rumor Mill: Sheed May Retire

If Dumars is breaking up the old bunch of Pistons, how about the Spurs put together a package for Rip Hamilton or Tayshaun Prince instead of Rasheed?

Or make one of those trades in addition to signing Rasheed to the MLE? (It would sweeten the deal if Sheed could play with a former teammate too…)

A package of Bonner, Finley or Bowen, and Oberto would make the numbers work for Hamilton or Prince…

I don’t know like Artest, Sheed is very unpredictable.
Maybe, he isn’t bluffing. 8 million is a lot of money.

Sheed would look good in the silver and black. But Sheed is one of those players. When he shows up to play he’s pretty darn good. But when he goes in his hole of wackiness. He’s pretty pathetic.

Time will tell ……..

Sweet, let’s move on from ‘Sheed and focus on Carlos Boozer. Sheed seemed un-logical from the get-go.

Why are we not foaming at the mouth to get this guy??????

Prince is the ideal Spur, I think he’d be among the top, if not, my top candidate for replacing Bruce Bowen. He’s one of the top defenders in the league, hits the three with regularity, and in addition to that, as a plus to Bowen, he also can create his own shot. While Rip is “the best catch-and-shoot player since Reggie Miller”.

Paying anything more than an MLE for ‘Sheed is pretty ludicrous so I’d let him retire as well, or sign with another team that’s desperate enough to throw that kind of money at him. While I would love to have Rip and Tay in silver and black, I don’t know that it’s realistic, as Dumars wants to improve his roster, not cut costs. If we assume there is any merit to the rumor of the Hornets trading David West for Rip and Tay, then maybe we can try a three way trade sending our expiring contracts to NOLA and getting Rip and Tay while Detroit gets David West, that would be amazing and I doubt that will happen, though it seems to me to be the most realistic way of landing them.

IF ‘Sheed stands by his asking price I think we need to look elsewhere for our answers. I think it’s pretty realistic to say that outside of maybe Mason (and arguably Bonner), none of the Spurs currently have any sort of trade value beyond being expiring contracts. That gives us about $20 million in 6 contracts that can be traded (assuming that Finley picks up his option). I think one option is the Clippers’ platoon of bigs. I don’t know that Mike Dunleavy Sr is willing to part with Camby, but what do you think about Chris Kaman?

Honestly, since we can only offer savings and future cap space to other teams, I can only think of a handful of teams that are actively trying to cut costs, and honestly not a lot of them have a lot to offer. I mean; Oberto, Bowen, Thomas, and Bonner (or Finley) for Richard Jefferson and Jason Alexander seems like rather a lot does it not? Dunno, my gut instinct says yes.

Oops, I mean Joe Alexander, not George Costanza.

Sheed for 8 million is way too much…. and I agree and find it hard to imagine Dumars parting with either Rip or Tayshaun, especially if it’s just for a salary dump. I know Detroit is hurting (emailing Cleveland ticket holders to buy their unsold playoff tickets), but I don’t quite think they are desperate, at least not yet. And I don’t see them adding Bowen or Oberto or Thomas, just to save some money.

Aside from the fact that Boozer plays the same position as Tim Duncan, is injury prone, isn’t very physical, and would cost a fortune, lets not forget that he once ripped off a blind guy. That’s some nasty karma you want to stay away from….

Yet Sheed has better karma? I wouldn’t mind having another big-man that would average 20/10.

Ian hasn’t done anything, Robertas won’t be joining the team, Tiago who knows what he’ll do. On top of that all of them are still unproven in the league. There’s no depth on the interior. New blood friends, new blood.

A lot of ‘Sheed hating going on here, for reasons I can’t completely fathom. He’s “washed up” and “can’t score or defend anymore” and “8 mil is way too much”.

Frankly, that entire team just gave up. Hamilton, Prince, Wallace, Iverson, and to lesser extents Maxiell and Stuckey, they all just sorta packed it in back in March. The only guy who played hard the last two months was Will Bynum, who I remember as being barely serviceable as a COLLEGE starter. I don’t think you can look at anything that happened for the post-All-Star break period as indicative of any future performance.

And despite basically just not trying for the last two months, Sheed’s numbers for the seasons are?

12 ppg / 7.4 rpg / 1.3 bpg / 1.7 3pg / 42% FG

Which, hey isn’t all-star level. But, hey in 2004 ,when the Pistons won the title, his numbers?

14 ppg / 7.1 rpg / 2.0 bpg / 1 3pg / 43% FG

So where exactly is this big fall off? Sheed’s numbers this year were about the same as the previous two years. This guy has NEVER scored 20 ppg in a season. So exactly where is this big fall off that everyone talking about?

He is who he is, a big, long defender, who can shoot treys, will once in a while punish a puny 4-man on the block, but will most likely sorta float around waiting for the point guard (Chauncey Billups, Rodney Stuckey, Will Bynum, Tony Parker, whoever) to do their thing. He’s always been that way. It’s nothing new.

To me, if you can find a way to get him on the roster somehow around all the cap complexities, he’s easily worth $8 mil for one year. For one year, give him $10 mil. Because if he’s on a one year deal (and again, I don’t know if this works under the cap), he gives the Spurs a chance to contend in 2010 AND preserve the 2010 summer cap space.

I remember reading in an article, most likely on espn.com, that Dumars said that anyone outside of Stuckey is up for possible trade and whatnot. If that’s true, that increases our chances for Prince or Hamilton. If we go for Hamilton, we should definitely include Mason in the deal. Really though, I only want Tayshaun.

As for Sheed, I think Francis has some good points. I think if he does make it here, especially for a 1 year contract.

It we be awesome if we catch both Prince and Wallace.

Dumars is known as one of the smartest execs in the game. He only trades those guys if it makes his team better.

Sheed is a wonderful talent but 8 million is over the top.

His versatility is obviously his calling card but the last 1/3rd of the season he lost his game. He went from an elite club of 1 block 1 steal 1 three per game players to sub in all those categories.

Attitude or Age? Thats the question. Either way he is not a focal point for an offence any longer hence you don’t pitch 8 million at him.

Boozer is a terrible fit for S.A. On a Utah team that is renowned for ball movment he is the square peg in the round hole.

oh and check this out http://dimemag.com/2009/04/end-of-the-road-for-rasheed/