Saturday Morning Cartoons: Serge I-signed-a-four-year-deal-a

 @OBoymuzik paid for no  work, no travel

 @FF_pickups  @justin_mia i think ibaka will drift up into the low 30s. Presti picks and pays, Brooks plays

 @justin_mia

 I don't think that Brooks is going to give out minutes based off of contracts.

 @DennisBerry  @dancassidy35/FreeFestusFromGSW! he was a bust from the standpoint of overall impact for a #5 pick

 @Crow  @dancassidy35/FreeFestusFromGSW!You guys consider Jeff Green a bust? He was a pretty good player IMO, I mean 17/6 is nothing to sneeze at, but he was obviously played out of position here because him and KD are both 3's and getting traded to and resigning in Boston where he's behind all stars in the depth chart isn't going to do much for his stats.

 @dancassidy35/FreeFestusFromGSW! all of Presti's busts or potential busts went to big name basketball schools. Jones is not in that classification.

 @dancassidy35/FreeFestusFromGSW! that and the mock draft consensus that he should have gone 8-10

 @dancassidy35/FreeFestusFromGSW! the no change in Green's college stats year to year was a main reason I was not comfortable with his pick on draft day

 @Crow  @Jooseppi  @FF_pickups Makes it easier to trade him, if necessary, down the road.

 @Jooseppi  @justin_mia  @FF_pickups i messed up that first strategy in two ways.

it appears you could pay $13.4 mil this season and then have it decline to $10.6 mil  by the end. if the player and agent agreed.

 @Jooseppi  @justin_mia  @FF_pickups i see it now, thanks

 @Jooseppi  @justin_mia  @FF_pickups ok. i wasn't motivated to find that kind of detail right now

 @Crow  @justin_mia

 I think you can have them increase based on some estimation of the increase of the cap each year.

 @justin_mia  @FF_pickups  @Crow 7.5 percent decreases are possible. 

 @justin_mia  @FF_pickups i am not sure. just speculating based on what you used to be able to do.

 @FF_pickups  @Crow I think you can make them de-escalate though, like Bulls did with Kirk Hinrich.  i.e. certain percentage decreases instead of increases.  Probably not likely.  

 @Crow  @Lost Ones 

I think we've all got a little "misfit" in us to a degree.  :)

 @ThunderChick2010  @Lost Ones I appreciate your comment and  I accept it. My annoyance is more with myself and what I write and don't write and how I fit or don't  than anything so don't take my talk of annoyance too personally.  I appreciate the banter and teasing to a degree, I just don't want to get sucked up into it too far.

 @Crow  @Lost Ones

Had to google it to make sure you weren't pulling my leg. You weren't.  Btw Crow, if I truly was annoying/offending you with my posts yesterday, that was not my intent.  It was meant to come across as good-natured teasing . . . I really do enjoy reading you.

 @Crow  @Lost Ones

This reminds me of cleandoe's Grape Drink post from yesterday . . .

 @ThunderChick2010  @Lost Ones have you heard of grilling watermelon? i hadnt til sometime  earlier this year. got to use good judgment on the grillin time. would Perk grill watermelon? Probably not. If Perk grilled watermelon would he use good judgment, maybe not the first time. Would Perk like grilled melon? O for sure. And making $8+ million a year he can hire someone to grill his watermelon.

 @Crow  @Lost Ones

 This could leave us scarred.

 @justin_mia  @Arent No way!

 @justin_mia  @FF_pickups  @Lost Ones i would have preferred noah on his first contract over the second one and i am not if i would go big on the third one

 @justin_mia  @FF_pickups  @Lost Ones alright

 @Crow  @FF_pickups  @Lost Ones Right, but many of those games he's hurt to the point that it's clearly affecting his play.  Like Thabo and his feet.

 @justin_mia  @FF_pickups  @Lost Ones he has played 84% of the his possible regular season games. bad but not real bad

 @FF_pickups  @Lost Ones As an aside, I'm a massive fan of Thibs as an assistant but do not like him as a Head Coach.

 @FF_pickups  @Lost Ones For being injured all the time, maybe.

 @Lost Ones

 Noah has a far superior defensive coach.  If he were here, you'd complain about him constantly.

 @justin_mia  @Arent noah has low key emotional issues as well it seems easy to take him out the game mentally. 

 @Arent I think I'd rather be paying Ibaka $12M than Noah though, because Noah can't stay on the court and even then he's playing through injuries half the time.

 @justin_mia and RAPM estimates him at a modest negative overall impact

 @justin_mia well i'll modify this a bit. he did get better this season on boxscore stats but he still is nothing special

 @justin_mia yes but bargnani is not getting better as expected / hoped / promised

 @FF_pickups He's not a scrub he's great but I admit some of the day dreaming about training with Hakeem, post game, etc. compels me to post about him more negatively.  I like Ibaka a whole lot.  But I am concerned about his year two to year three progress, relative to many other good players who make larger gains in that period.

 @justin_mia

 Every time you talk about Ibaka, you make it sound like he's a scrub.  The guy just signed for 12 million a year.  Presti obviously disagrees with you.

 @FF_pickups What are you talking about

 @justin_mia

 I told you it was going to happen.  You are really negatively biased towards our players.  He's held in a much higher view by the rest of the NBA than you hold him.