First of all, LoL at the picture, good one. Though I still think the brunette looks pretty nice, even with that idiot hat .. that aside :p (I’m a sucker for brunettes with brown eyes and non-curled hair)

1.) I also felt like some weird things in my stumach when I read the 5 year thing. I thought we were done doing this?
As I said, I didn’t mind overpaying him for 2-3 years .. but 5? How can they be sure we’ll need him for that long? Free agency is coming next year?

2.) For some reason team’s just can’t see he’s a bad player putting up good numbers on a bad team (and not playing any D). But he’s in the West again so the better for us…
So again, big agree on this.

3.) Don’t agree this much on this. It all depends on how much they paid him but even though he’s a huge bust he could still play a little back-up? Why not? You could do worse than him for a big man (Blount comes to mind).

4.) Wright? LoL. Best one I’ve heard so far. If I want to believe the FO is doing the right thing (we’ll give em a closed eye (or what’s the expression in English) for the long years on Gomes) so I won’t believe this one.
There has got to be someone else that fits better.

...get the Wright deal either. There’s already too many people on board. If anything, they need to trim things up a bit and move Cardinal’s salary. I could see the Wright deal working if they were able to get rid of Foye or McCants + a draft pick + Cardinal’s deal first. They would also have to get Bellineli in the deal. The Warriors are dangerously close to the lux mark so I’m sure the Wolves could offer up their TPE in part of a deal and the Warriors would be more apt to take the deal.

Way to resign Gomes!

I was hoping for a 10 year contract, but 5 will have to do!

...been able to find the financial details of the deal, but it’s 4 years guaranteed with a 5th year player option. That’s kind of long. I guess they wanted him to match up with Big Al, but I’ll have to withold judgement on this one until I see the numbers. If it’s between $3-5, I don’t have that big of a problem with it. But still…5 years is a long time.

Actually, I don’t think you’re wrong. I just disagree.

On Gomes, yes his contract is the same length as Madsen’s was and it will almost certainly be for more (Mad Dog got $10 million over 5 years). And yes, they’re both excellent off-court ambassadors for the team. But that’s where any similarity ends. Madsen, on one hand, is a plodding energy guy who can score only on putbacks. Gomes is a lean energy guy that can hit jumpers, threes and play solid perimeter and post defense depending on the size of his assignment. Gomes does nothing exceptionally, but everything well. The same cannot be said for Madsen.

And as I’m typing this, SnP made the point that between $3 and $5 million in the first year isn’t a big deal. No way we gave him more than $5 million per.

http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2008/07/29/sports/doc488e8c810488d398113443.txt

“Terms of Gomes’ contract with the Timberwolves have not yet been released. Word on the street is that the deal is for five years and $21 million. Gomes, we’re told, owns a player option and can declare himself a free agent after the 2009-2010 season, if he wishes.”

Something like this?:

$3,500,000 / $3,850,000 / $4,200,000 / $4,550,000 / $4,900,000 (PO)

is the weirdest signing of the summer in my book. As I said yesterday to a friend of mine in LA, the Clippers have just consigned themselves to years of futility. And I forgot they have Tim Thomas too? Baron Davis must be wondering what the hell he just did.

That Gomes contract seems very reasonable for what he contributed this past season and it’s not like they suddenly killed their cap space for 2010 and beyond, either.

which make an extended contract worthwhile. In this case both Gomes and the Wolves having options makes good sense and good business. If they signed him to a strict, 5 year, no option deal, I’d be against that, despite him being a decent player and good guy. The fact that they seem to be learning from their previous mistakes is another sign for me that someone else other than McHale must be structuring these contracts, or schooling him in the ways of the CBA.

that I kind of feel bad for him. It’s always the hardworking team players that agree to the modest contracts and the lazy underachievers that demand the long contracts without options and then don’t live up to it.

As also said in the other comments, since it turns out this is with options, like the deal a lot, it’s even better to have a 5 year deal with options than only 3 year deal. He probably hasn’t got much upside left (he was only drafted 50th btw) but he might be very attractive in 3 years for a team that has just needs someone to fill a role.
Great deal. If they can get dumb some contracts and get Livingston that way they get an A on their summer report card ^^

... you all shouldn’t have overreacted with criticism before actually finding out the details of the contract.

Great, great signing. I haven’t said that in a long time.