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Charlotte has been desperate for good players for many years. You've got to ask yourself why they didn't try to keep him if he was playing "meaningful basketball" for them.

This. I don't want JJJ settling on being a one dimensional offensive threat in his second season. He needs to develop all his skills.

It was supposed to be humor, considering there are multiple posts talking about how he worked hard on his conditioning, but not his game. I do realize what kind of a career he has had.

If only he had spent more time on basketball skills instead.

Three Plumlees. Miles, Mason, and Marshall.

I guess I got you wrong then. I thought you were complaining about the deal.

I guess I just don't understand why Kevin keeps beating this dead horse. Even if he doesn't perform well this deal doesn't kill us. If he performs well, we have a solid player on a good deal.

Thar's what I was saying. He said he expected him to just be cut, which still could happen if nothing materializes I guess.

Why not SG? He seems to have the handles for it. Being able to put someone his size at SG could give us a real matchup advantage.

Even better.

Ja could share the floor with Tyus having two PGs on the floor.

I think your estimate may be too high.

Sorry, I have to ask. What would that prove? I'll bet Patty Mills could beat Greg Popovich one-on-one, but I'd bet my bottom dollar Pops knows more about basketball. Jus' sayin'...

Kevin, what is your point? Do you think we should have gone cheap to secure what is probably, at least, the sixth most important spot on a 15 man roster? I don't know how well Tyus is going to perform in Memphis, but critics of the signing seem to agree that he was one of the best backups available. I'm okay with it. The teams that don't take steps to secure the best talent available are the ones that lose - a lot. Your argument about his age is silly. It could have been said the same of Mike Conley when he signed his $150+M contract. After all, there were more senior players, some of them superstars, who never got paid that well. Times change, wages go up. TJones contract is not some huge crippling albatross, so your incessant questioning of the merits of the signing seems to make you look silly IMO.

Then why don't they just cut him then? Why push the date back to October?