Byron Scott: Cavs’ Next Move to Sign Alonzo Gee

Does everyone remember when the lockout was supposed to end players forcing teams to move them to desireable markets, and we were tripping over ourselves to congratulate Gilbert?

What Byron’s really saying: “Look at me, Alonzo. At me, this way, not at the agent, at … there you go. You’re wasting time, son, we signed CJ already, no one’s chasing you and this is a good place, I know how to play you. No, forget what the agent told you, that’s old CBA advice … LOOK at me.”

I don’t remember anyone “tripping” over themselves to congratulate
Gilbert as being an integral part in creating a CBA that prevented star player
movement. The current CBA is a
compromise, Gilbert’s view represents some of it, as do the views of other
small market owners. Large market team
owners also have their views expressed as well.
Two positives that won’t show up until next year; First is the end of
the sign and trade that guaranteed players max dollars to go to the team they
want . Now, the team trading can’t move
him just after signing the contract, and the receiving team has to wait until
free agency to offer him a contract, and any other team can make an equivalent
offer. Second the severe luxury tax
doesn’t set in until next year, which is when it is going to become really hard
to construct super teams and pay them accordingly.

If you just want to hate on Gilbert that’s fine, he certainly has done things
that warrant it, but you are stretching this time.

I’ve heard some mixed stuff on this. Apparently a Western Conference scout (love the unnamed sources!) said there were 5-10 guys kicking around summer league they’d take over Gee. That seems to hold some water, since young athletic wings were all the rage this year (see Batum, Nic) and Gee didn’t get a single nibble.

My prediction is he signs the qualifier and if he performs we get the deal done during the season.

you saved me alot of typing.

in the end, if players want to force their way off your team, then there is not much you can do about it. but, there are at least penalties in place to restrict it to some extent.

Yea you think the Cavaliers are gonna find better players somewhere? I’d be happy to see Gibson leave but at the same time a little sad to see Gee go if true. Casspi can go as well as far as I’m concerned.

If Casspi can find his range (his shot looked broke as heck most of last year) he may be a solid compliment to Kyrie/Dion back court.

On paper, Casspi can run, has good size and can hit open threes. He’s my dark horse for “guy who makes the 2nd year with Byron Scott jump” this year.

God that first group really needs to do well because seeing these names listed together along with the words, “two years” doesn’t make me feel all that well. I’m assuming this coming season is one of those two years, right, please say yes?
Please oh please let there be another GM who would take a Walton, Gibson, Harangody or even Casspi if he plays anywhere remotely likely he did a year ago.

You are right though the only way the Cavaliers are going to be able to do anything of significant impact is if they make a trade using the cap space, expiring contracts and draft picks they have accumulated.

The problem will be finding the necessary partners willing to trade players who have more then a year left on their contract because we all know the Cavaliers can’t afford to take a chance on resigning a significant player i.e. a Bynum scenario. The other problem is I have very little faith that Grant will be able to achieve this but we can hope, I guess.

Fine, I’ll pretend that the majority opinion wasn’t that we really helped out small market teams with the lockout, or that people in town were willing to give up a season (or more!) to back Gilbert. It was all smoke blown you know where so that the owners could cut a bigger piece of the pie for themselves, no more, no less.

And while the luxury tax is more severe, it sure didn’t do a damn bit of anything in preventing the Lakers from adding payroll.

we’ll see. you have to be a luxury payer 3yrs in a row or 4/5 to get the real severe penalties. so, in 2 years, the Lakers will have some real questions of what to do on hand.

and, restrictions and penalties are about all you can do in a CBA. you can’t convince players to play in small markets if they are dead-set against it.

giving Gilbert/Grant a season has more to do that in basketball the only way for you to get real good is to get real bad first (even the Celtics needed to be bad for a long time to get the assets to trade for their big3).

I find nothing enticing about Gibson but if another team does please oh please let it happen.

As far as the resigning of guys until there is a player worthy of that again we won’t know but to say I’m skeptical that the Cavaliers can do so would be generous. To be more precise I was envisioning the Cavaliers trading for a player, noone in mind I’m just speaking in generalities and then trying to resign that guy. Not resigning someone like Irving who they drafted.

If you need to pretend then fine, but anyone with common sense knew that the lockout was about guaranteeing more money for owners. The crux of the argument was the profti split Remember he players weregetting 57%? I have no idea what your second senence means. Yes people backed Gilbert tanking to get Kyrie and then Waiters. Regardlss of what you think of the players you can’t possibly argue with the method. Tanking and hitting a homerun n the draft is the fastst route to recovery in the NBAand NFL.
Sure it was smoke blown by the owners -ALL the owners – their job is to make as much money as they can. You seem to continue to push the idea thatthis is all Gilberts fault and it just aint so.