…I wanted him badly in the off-season, and this is opportune timing considering that Ollie just went down. It sounds like he’s capable of playing 10-15 minutes a night, which is all we need right now from Telfair’s backup. We could (hopefully) sign him to a ten day, or maybe for the rest of the season. Getting him now would give us an inside track to re-signing him after the season, if his knee keeps healing.

The Sun-Sentinel piece intimated that SL’s knee is still limiting his lateral quickness, i.e., he still looks a little stiff, but that he is healthy enough to play and wanted more minutes. I’m not sure that he’s simply lost whatever talent he had—Spoelstra is a rookie coach who has made some other questionable decisions this year, not least being his allotment of minutes to Beasley, so it’s possible that he’s been “shackled” a bit by Spoelstra. If we sign him, I’m not going to expect a miracle this year, but if he provided 10-15 solid minutes with some improvement toward March and April, we could be optimistic that he could make an impact next year, after he’s had another five months to heal and rehab the knee. It’s a risk well worth taking, in my opinion, especially now that we need another point guard.