Mitch will contact Joe Smith, Shelden Williams.

gradymac wrote:

Big Mamma Jamma wrote:

gradymac wrote:gooden is one of those player who has occasional good spurts and will follow it up with a string of terrible spurts ....i know this ive actually followed gooden for quite a while cuz i wasa fan of his when he played in ORL....but that was then and there must be a reason why no team wants him...hes been bouncing around from team to team.....this would be a nitemare......SAY NO TO GOODEN!!

He might not be bad. His stats remind me of another PF: Horace Grant. Although Horace probably had more of a b-ball IQ. If Gooden signed for the vet min that would be a great pickup!

yes dont get me wrong id love to have another big man on my team but i dont want him as odoms replacement...we gotta do whatever it take to get him back odom is so versatile he can play all 5 positions and he causes fits to the defense cus of his size.

jtims3182 wrote:How are they signing either of them for 2 years/$960,000 per? Both can get significantly more.

DHL wrote:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

SignPippenNow wrote:If Odom leaves and they can get Gooden for the vet minimum it would be a steal. Some of you ripping him act as if LA is offering same money they offered LO. Gooden should get 3.5 to 5 in this market and to get him for vet minimum would be as good as LA can hope for barring getting Lamar back. Is Gooden a savior? No, but neither is Odom. As far as being a dumb player as some say, Odom wasn't the smartest player on this planet. As I said, I really, really want Lamar back but Gooden isn't a bad option for the vet minimum. That is about 7 to 8 or so million cheaper than they are offering Odom.

SignPippenNow wrote:If Odom leaves and they can get Gooden for the vet minimum it would be a steal. Some of you ripping him act as if LA is offering same money they offered LO. Gooden should get 3.5 to 5 in this market and to get him for vet minimum would be as good as LA can hope for barring getting Lamar back. Is Gooden a savior? No, but neither is Odom. As far as being a dumb player as some say, Odom wasn't the smartest player on this planet. As I said, I really, really want Lamar back but Gooden isn't a bad option for the vet minimum. That is about 7 to 8 or so million cheaper than they are offering Odom.

magicman32 wrote:

SignPippenNow wrote:If Odom leaves and they can get Gooden for the vet minimum it would be a steal. Some of you ripping him act as if LA is offering same money they offered LO. Gooden should get 3.5 to 5 in this market and to get him for vet minimum would be as good as LA can hope for barring getting Lamar back. Is Gooden a savior? No, but neither is Odom. As far as being a dumb player as some say, Odom wasn't the smartest player on this planet. As I said, I really, really want Lamar back but Gooden isn't a bad option for the vet minimum. That is about 7 to 8 or so million cheaper than they are offering Odom.

As fans, how exactly does the owner saving 7 or 8 million dollars impact us?

we want the best team on the floor as possible. we want LO because he makes the team better than Gooden would. We want championships.

who cares about the owner saving money?

magicman32 wrote:

SignPippenNow wrote:If Odom leaves and they can get Gooden for the vet minimum it would be a steal. Some of you ripping him act as if LA is offering same money they offered LO. Gooden should get 3.5 to 5 in this market and to get him for vet minimum would be as good as LA can hope for barring getting Lamar back. Is Gooden a savior? No, but neither is Odom. As far as being a dumb player as some say, Odom wasn't the smartest player on this planet. As I said, I really, really want Lamar back but Gooden isn't a bad option for the vet minimum. That is about 7 to 8 or so million cheaper than they are offering Odom.

As fans, how exactly does the owner saving 7 or 8 million dollars impact us?

we want the best team on the floor as possible. we want LO because he makes the team better than Gooden would. We want championships.

who cares about the owner saving money?

GinoDB wrote:what if we keep Odom AND sign Gooden

BDG wrote: Worst case scenario is Gooden rides the bench and we go into the season with the same team we would have had if LO walks.

He wouldn't be a replacement for Odom, just a big body that can defend, rebound and absorb some of Odom's minutes. If Bynum can return to the form he was in during the early stages of last season, it will solve a lot of problems whether Odom is here or not.

aansari wrote:

Damian Necronamous wrote:Anyone who thinks Drew Gooden isn't worthy of the P&G is a total moron. The dude would only be a slight downgrade to Odom. Gooden is a good rebounder and would probably average 8/7 off our bench. We could repeat with him as our 6th man. I don't know how we'd get him, though, if we did indeed use our veteran's exception on Shannon Brown.

We can't do a sign and trade because no team owns his Bird Rights.

gooden is dumb as a rock.

tom55 wrote:

aansari wrote:

Damian Necronamous wrote:Anyone who thinks Drew Gooden isn't worthy of the P&G is a total moron. The dude would only be a slight downgrade to Odom. Gooden is a good rebounder and would probably average 8/7 off our bench. We could repeat with him as our 6th man. I don't know how we'd get him, though, if we did indeed use our veteran's exception on Shannon Brown.

We can't do a sign and trade because no team owns his Bird Rights.

gooden is dumb as a rock.

So is Odom. If Phil Jackson can get Gooden to play with some consistency, he'd actually be an upgrade over Odom. Odom may be the Lakers most talent player (including Kobe), but he only uses about 1% of it.

therealdeal wrote:Joe Smith is very solid, even at his age.

Gooden is solid as well, but obviously neither of them can fill LO's shoes. And if (heaven forbid) there is another major injury, neither could step in like LO did.