The Wolves have agreed to terms with restricted free-agent Craig Smith on a two-year contract and...

The Wolves have agreed to terms with restricted free-agent Craig Smith on a two-year contract and the third-year forward is expected to join the franchise's summer-league team in Las Vegas today.

Smith averaged 9.4 points on 56.3 percent shooting and 4.6 rebounds in 77 games (including 11 starts) last season. He scored a career-high 36 points in a game at Washington last December.

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While I'm OK with bringing the Rhino back...

I’m afraid of what this means for our other free agents (Gomes and Telfair) that I personally feel are higher priorities.

With Craig, the roster has 12 guaranteed contracts. Gomes, Telfair and Richard are all still out there (as are Doleac and Snyder, but whatever), so re-signing all of them brings us to the 15 mark. I know some people are not high on re-signing either, but I’d like both of them back. If those two were re-signed and that’s the end of our offseason, I’d be pretty damn happy with it, depending on the contracts given out.

Two years is a great length for Craig though… I’m just curious on the amount.

by wyn on Jul 17, 2008 10:39 AM CDT 0 recs

Sorry, should've finished my thought...

The thing about Craig is he takes minutes from Gomes at the 4 and maxing out the roster as mentioned above would mean that Telfair and Foye are all we have to play point. Not enough in my eyes. Yes, Love might be able to run the offense (opinions on that?) if someone else brings the ball up, but I’m not sure a young team like this wouldn’t struggle all season trying to learn a brand new, unorthodox offense.

by wyn on Jul 17, 2008 10:42 AM CDT up 0 recs

I’m feeling they’ve all but given up on resigning Gomes. He’s gonna get more money elsewhere and frankly we don’t NEED him. Especially since we got Carney we’re gonna see how that turns out.
If nobody offers Gomes a higher offer though I think we’ll keep him and just see how it works out, but that’s probably not gonna happen.

We still need a PG .. I read somewhere Pargo is looking for a 3 year deal, that’s one too many…

by Wim (Belgium) on Jul 17, 2008 10:54 AM CDT 0 recs

I think...

...they know Gomes will get the MLE. I guess he may not be showing up at the b-ball clinic in Mankato next week.

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by Stop-n-Pop on Jul 17, 2008 1:36 PM CDT 0 recs

Gomes next to Bron-Bron?

Isn’t that the rumor now that Posey signed with Charlotte? I’d like that deal if I was Gomes, but if I’m Cleveland, do I really sign up a good role player long-term if LBJ isn’t goign to be around?

I guess I’m a bit more optimistic - I think we would have heard more buzz around it if there was really a lot of interest in Gomes for big money and/or lots of years. Same thing for Telfair - I think he’s got as much value to us as anyone else, so I’m guessing his agent is trying to get a good offer from sone other team and then the Wolves will have to decide to match or not. I bet they will. As for Richard, it seems to me that he could get signed and sent to the developmental league and he’s a pretty low-cost option. And of course they may buy out Booth too.

Re: Posey, I think that makes the Hornets even tougher, but i still think they need a 2-guard who can start. I don’t think you’re getting out of the Western Conference with MoPete/Peja as your starting 2-3, even if Posey going to get the crunchtime minutes for one of those guys.

by Sterno on Jul 17, 2008 2:59 PM CDT 0 recs

Of course i meant Posey going to NO, not Charlotte

Need to get out of the 1990s, apparently.

by Sterno on Jul 17, 2008 3:00 PM CDT 0 recs

Lol

that one’s funny ^^

(sorry for non contributing post )

by Wim (Belgium) on Jul 19, 2008 4:26 AM CDT up 0 recs

Zgoda's estimate

Here’s some of what he had to say after agreeing to a new reasonably priced two-year contract (still trying to nail down the number, I’d guess $3.5-4 millionish total) after discussions with other teams didn’t yield an offer sheet…

by wyn on Jul 17, 2008 5:42 PM CDT 0 recs