1. How did you conclude that a contract extension for 4 years at about 7~8 million per year equate to wanting him to be traded? That was your misinterpretation of the contract extension talks. What I said was if some team is willing to give him $10 million per year, they can have him cause his production is replaceable. And that is agreed upon by other posters.
2. Calling Sacramento inept and saying our organization is smart is completely ludicrous when Sacramento has more wins in the 4 years (98) than us (90). Yeah, they're so inept that they can win more games than our intelligent franchise.
3. I find it funny that you use shitty defensive players as the backbone of your argument when trying to paint TT as a good defender. Zeller? Bennett? Hawes? Are you freaking kidding me? Andy is on the list that you gave us but he's not a shut down any kind of defender. You're using shit to prop up shit. I'm not saying TT is a shit defender but his defense is nothing stellar and is replaceable as well as his inefficient offensive production.
1. Do you enjoy just making shit and and acting like I said it? Go back and find a single post where I said paying him 7-8 million a year means we have to trade him. If you actually read my posts, I said in a perfect world TT signs a 4/32 contract extension and we all move on. That's unreasonable to expect though, and I made several points as to why I feel that way.
2. Thanks for arbitrarily going back 4 seasons to include the 3 years of deliberate losing we went through after I used a 10 year benchmark where they've missed the playoffs 8 consecutive years. Great use of sample size there buddy. And not a peep about all those terrible player transactions I referenced, were those the moves of a smart organization?
I'm done arguing about how inept the Sacramento Kings are as a NBA franchise. The Maloofs ran that team into the fucking ground, they're a complete joke around the league. The Cavs will garner some laughs across the league for missing the playoffs after our owner foolishly declared us a playoff team at last year's lottery, but in no way is this organization looked in the same manner of the Kings. We've got an extremely young, talented core moving forward with ample cap space and multiple first round picks owed to us.
3. I was comparing him to those "shitty defensive players" because they're on the same fucking team as Tristan. They play in the same system with mostly the same players, why the fuck wouldn't I use our bigs as a barometer?
Andy isn't a lock-down defender, but he's pretty god damn close. His man-to-man defense isn't his strong suit though, he's a fucking wizard at defending the pick and roll. He's actually ranked in the top 10 in the entire league defending the PnR with a .72 PPP.
And maybe you forgot, but Andy made a 2nd team all-defensive team in the 09-10 season. That's not an easy accomplishment, this guy can play some tough defense. If, at only 23-years-old, TT is playing at a comparable level to Andy I'm not going to complain about his 'poor defense' like some posters have.
From his post, TT's defensive PER is 0.01 better than Tyler Zeller. Let me repeat, 0.01. So that makes TT a 2A and Zeller a 2B defensively this year. :chuckles:
Truly impressive when you're in Tyler Zeller's defensive stratosphere. If both have similar impact defensively, why don't we start Zeller over TT since Zeller can hit a jumper?
This is the part where context comes in. TZ plays 14 minutes a night against backup bigs. TT plays 32 minutes a night against starters. What doesn't show up in the stats as well is that Zeller blows more rotations a night than Tristan does, and our defensive rebounding goes to shit when TZ is our center.
