If Carl Landry Doesn't Stay a Rocket, We Should Send Daryl Morey a Fruit Basket
by David A. Arnott on Sep 25, 2008 8:34 AM EDT
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I like Carl Landry. You like him. Everyone has a reason to like Carl Landry. And the Rockets have no reason to let him go.
In some of my fantasies about turning around the Bobcats, we make a move like this, only it's for real, and we get to keep Landry, start him at power forward, and that way we'd have, essentially, three power forwards grabbing boards and being menaces on defense, able to handle all manner of opposing frontcourts, in Wallace, Okafor, and Landry, with Mohammed and May coming off the bench for a change of pace. Unfortunately, in this situation, Daryl Morey isn't dumb (see: in the running for smartest GM in the game with Kevin Pritchard), so he'll likely retain Landry for the low price of $3 million per year.
Remember, paying someone to be replacement level costs a little under $3 million, and Landry's worth much more than that, even as a bench ace, so this contract is a massive bargain for whichever team gets him. Even after adding luxury tax dollars to Landry's deal, he's still probably well worth the money they'd be spending on him.
(UPDATE: Bingo!)
In some of my fantasies about turning around the Bobcats, we make a move like this, only it's for real, and we get to keep Landry, start him at power forward, and that way we'd have, essentially, three power forwards grabbing boards and being menaces on defense, able to handle all manner of opposing frontcourts, in Wallace, Okafor, and Landry, with Mohammed and May coming off the bench for a change of pace. Unfortunately, in this situation, Daryl Morey isn't dumb (see: in the running for smartest GM in the game with Kevin Pritchard), so he'll likely retain Landry for the low price of $3 million per year.
Remember, paying someone to be replacement level costs a little under $3 million, and Landry's worth much more than that, even as a bench ace, so this contract is a massive bargain for whichever team gets him. Even after adding luxury tax dollars to Landry's deal, he's still probably well worth the money they'd be spending on him.
(UPDATE: Bingo!)
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Just wanted to bring up the fact that Garcia just got a 6M/year contract. Is Francisco Garcia really that much better than Landry? Actually is Francisco Garcia better than Carl Landry?
by Anil on Sep 25, 2008 4:29 PM EDT reply actions
That Garcia got that much shouldn't really have any bearing on what Landry gets. The two are in different stages of their careers and have a different amount and type of leverage. I'm not confident enough in my knowledge of Garcia's game to definitively come down on either side of good/bad contract now, but I do know that the Kings are now paying him significant money. 3 million dollars is the magic number. Anything over that has to bring back real production, otherwise, it has to be made up by teammates performing beyond their pay grades.
by David Arnott on Sep 25, 2008 7:56 PM EDT reply actions
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