Carney is unrestricted.

This may be a side effect of putting things on hold waiting for the Sessions offer to become final on Friday.

Good luck to him. And to think I dubbed him the Carneyvore and will be unable to use it again. That is the hidden tragedy….

The highlights!

But I think that the combination of him being young, exciting, playing for us recently, and being a swingman all led to him being a player worth mentioning for our roster.

The fact is, there aren’t many free agents out there that are better than him anyway, let alone including players at the 2 or 3. This is all even without mentioning how cheap he could be signed for. He’s not great or possibly even average, but given our current roster needs, his age and athleticism, the emphasis on player development we espouse, and the aforementioned state of the free agent market, I don’t see him being too terrible of an option.
Being our 2nd or 3rd option at the 2/3 spots is more appealing to me than Damien Wilkins anyhow.

I believed that Carney would be an excellent role player on a running team. It’s what he does.

At the moment, I really don’t like the composition of the Wolves roster. Not that Carney would significantly change much. Mr. Kahn needs to pull a very large rabbit out of a very small hat.

Some of us liked Carney okay. It’s not that we overrated him as a player. There’s a difference.

The guy was a minor bright spot last year during the team’s only surprisingly good stretch in about four years. He had limitations, like most marginal roster players. Of course he did.

(Just for the sake of a little continuity, at this minimum salary figure, I might have brought him back given the choice. Right now guys like Love and Jefferson are probably feeling like Kahn has pulled the rug out from under a roster full of guys they got on well with. Another, comparable wing at the same contract from elsewhere doesn’t smooth that feeling out.)

I know what you’re getting at and I agree to an extent. He has more weaknesses than strengths. He also isn’t going to improve a lot at his age. For the most part, he is what he is. But being an athletic pre-prime wing player who isn’t injury prone and is not terrible is worth being interested in if you are a young team who wants to run and has a shortage of wings and athleticism. The connections make some sense for our team.

I just think that you’re being a little too harsh while also overstating the hype and expectations people have for him. I doubt the prevailing view was that he was underrated or has all sorts of untapped upside. In some people’s cases, that may be true. Overall I think people were more understated in their interest in and praise of him than you attest.

But do you argue that he’s not worth the minimum for one year to occupy a roster spot at a thin position? He’s making much less than he did last year. That’s pretty good value with very little cap hit for a 1-year rental. Just because it took this long for someone to sign doesn’t mean he’s terrible either. It took us until Friday to sign one of the best FAs in this class. Needs and economic issues possibly played a part, including the fact that like Sessions he probably waited until he could get as much as possible (which in both cases is at a discount). I don’t think he’s worth fretting over losing by any means, but I also think he’s good enough of a value to this team to not dismiss so strongly.