Fred Jones or Luther Head? Anyone?

Great 3point shooter (at least at Arizona)… don’t know about defense.

Not much upside but I liked what I saw out of him.

…but why not Taurean Green? He can shoot from 3 and is a good distributor. He’s a great guy too.

There really is NO ONE left, lol. Watson was the best option. It would’ve probably been better to use the 1.8 million on Watson and then find another wing for the minimum. Cause with PG’s there really is SLIM pickings. The only decent options are Tinsley and Jason Williams, but they’re unlikely to go for the vets min. Tinsley is a more likely possibility because he really just wants to play basketball again and is looking for the right fit over the right price.

…actually I don’t need to say it. I think I’ve made it clear who my choice would be for weeks now.

Carlos Arroyo $???
  NBA experience, Magic experience
  -Magic experience
  Sign him for 2 years with TO on 2nd year (or partially guaranteed 2nd year)
  
Chris Duhon $6.0M
  pretty good PG, time with Knicks showed unless he focuses on conditioning he’s really suited to be a backup
  -expensive one-year rental (since his contract expires…some see this as a plus) & he will cost us an arm and a leg (either AJ and JJ or the full TPE).

If we give up the TPE for one player who is an expiring contract, I’d want to see a draft pick coming our way with the player. I don’t really want to use the TPE for a high priced rental….I want a better return. (Maybe in this case we either get their 2012 pick or swap our 2011 1st rounder for theirs to move up the board, since their 2010 pick is gone).

However, the NYKs would get a $6M TPE which might really benefit them. They’ve already traded away their 2010 1st round pick and because they have sought to target the 2010 free agents by collecting a roster of expiring contracts, they have to replace almost their entire roster next off-season. (And I still think LeBron disses them.)
  
Rafer Alston $5.3M
  pretty good PG, Magic experience, contract expires this year
  -Magic experience, expensive one year rental (see Duhon)
  Compared to the Knicks, the Nets have both a better roster for next year and both draft picks, so they aren’t as in need of a sizeable TPE, but it would be big time cap relief for them, so I’d want a pick.
  
Luke Ridnour $6.5M
  pretty good PG (pure point)
  -expensive one year rental (see Duhon)
  He’s really only available either if Milwaukee matches for Sessions or prefers to bring in a minimum salary vet to tutor Jennings. Otherwise they need Ridnour to start while Jennings learns.
 
At one point, I would have put Steve Blake $4M on this list, but Portland announced no more moves until camp despite having added Andre Miller as the starter with last year’s lottery pick Jerad Bayless as a backup (that’s a real vote of confidence for Bayless).
 
Really, after that, it’s pretty much even, imo We’re not getting a #2 PG as much as we’re getting a #2b to split/share with #2a, Anthony Johnson who I still think is the best of the rest. ‘Cause they all come with either with lots of experience and a whole lotta miles on their odometer OR very little experience. All have some pluses AND minuses (some score, some distribute, some defend, some don’t, some are really SG in PG bodies), but none do it all. And the biggie: very few of them would be a suitable full time PG if Jameer goes down—though splitting time evenly with AJ might be good enough for a stretch of the season.

The FA vets (in my preferred order) are: Anthony Carter, Flip Murray, Jason Williams, Brevin Knight, Tyronn Lue, Luther Head, (below here aren’t really options, imo) Royal Ivey, Bobby Jackson, Jacque Vaughn, Juan Dixon, Tinsley (please, no), Jason Hart.

The rookie-level names include: Boston-reject Gabe Pruitt, SLer Russell Robinson, Laker-reject Sun Yue, and other DLeaguers I’m not yet familiar with.

Or a ridiculously expensive alternative is to offer to take Beno Udrih‘s astronomically over-paid $27M/4yr deal from Sacramento (he’s a reasonable backup who’s sort of a SG, but he’s been their starting PG +his first 3 years were with the Spurs) for the TPE ($6M this year), $3M cash to pay 1/2 2009-10, and one of the Kings’ two first round picks in 2010 (their own or the Suns’). We’d be tied to Beno for 4 years (unless we find someone more desperate than we are), but we’d have a servicable backup PG and turned the loss of Hedo into a high 1st round/lottery pick.

Otis has the situation under control.
IN OTIS WE TRUST

Is he any good?

Looks like a 6-2 Shooting Guard to me, but someone else may have better opinions.

Why not lets trade JJ Reddick for Nash, maybe we can get them to throw in Grant Hill if we include the rights to Fran Vasquez. C’mon we already have done exceedingly well in this off-season, lets be happy with whatever no-name bum we end up with.

to average a triple-double off the end of the bench and win us the championship

Who can shoot the three and play some D.

I am cool with Dad as long as Jameer can stay healthy.. The TPE might be our saving grace.. We are so solid from 2-5.. Almost impossible to have a killer bench player at every position.. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a trade like the Lakers pulled of last year and get a player like Shannon Brown.

I’d prefer a good 3 shooting PG like CJ Watson but since money an issue they get a young point guard make him 3rd string and when AJ contract’s up and he could be the backup

Unless you guys think that would make Jameer feel to insecure… At least Sessions would be playing behind an all-star and not old Luke ridnour, or a rookie. Sessions is going to be a great PG for years to come.

and while that’s ideal, it doesn’t look too realistic (even though as mentioned we kind of have that at the 2-5). starters don’t always like to be bench players (see Duhon, summer 2008 and Gortat, summer 2009).

it can make for an unhappy backup player. CJ Watson would have been icing on the cake (starting PG on a bad team moving to backup on a good team). Oh well. Still waiting for icing, but I’m pretty happy with the cake.