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Spencer Hawes to the Clippers
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Good deal for Spencer ... good deal for the Clippers.
Always good to see a right wing professional athlete get paid ... at least you know he won't go pissing it away on his entourage.
Always good to see a right wing professional athlete get paid ... at least you know he won't go pissing it away on his entourage.
Comments
1) Lack of quality big man depth behind Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan
2) Difficulty playing Jordan down the stretch of games due to the desire to foul him and lack of offensive game
3) When Jordan is on the floor, it cogs up the lane for Blake Griffin
Spencer addresses all 3 of those issues.
Signing for the mid-level exception is about right for Spencer if he wanted to play for a good team. He's a skilled big man that will help space the floor for a team that has plenty of options to attack the basket but could use another big that can space.
Defensively, I don't think that it's going to be a huge issue. First, you don't play for Doc Rivers if you don't play defense so I do expect that you'll see him improving defensively. Moreover, the bulk of his minutes will be on the 2nd unit and in an offensive/defensive role with Jordan in the last 6 minutes of the 4th.
This is a good move for the Clippers.
Losing Derek Collison is a very underrated hole for them to replace though.
We will see about Hawes. I bet in a year, they are trying to include him in a deal to get someone else. I don't think he's a guy who can play on a playoff team more than 10-15 minutes.