One of the strengths of the Sonics, last year and again this year, is depth at the four and five spots. |
Rick's playmaking ability, ball-handling skills and size make him a nice complement for our team, ... He is a true point guard, and I think he and Luke Ridnour will give us a good tandem at that position. |
Rick's playmaking ability, ball-handling skills and size make him a nice complement for our team. He is a true point guard, and I think he and Luke Ridnour will give us a good tandem at that position. |
That's no knock against Luke, and in effect, we think this will make Luke even better. It certainly improves our team. |
That's one more free agent we can check off for the year. I'm happy to get that behind us. It gives us some depth at the guard position. |
The importance of getting Ray done; that was our No. 1 priority in the offseason. He's really taken this team under his control in terms of leadership. |
This incident happened before the season and we're looking forward to this matter being resolved soon. |
We are doing center-by-committee, and we have to have that depth there. Vitaly gives us bulk. Mikki gives us length. |
We basically, like most teams in this league, do center by committee, ... We needed to get another committee member. We've got a couple of young guys in (Robert) Swift and (Johan) Petro with Vitaly and now Mikki. Mikki's 7-foot and a little different player than Jerome, but their stats are virtually the same. Mikki runs the floor a little better, Jerome gives a little more bulk. |
We basically, like most teams in this league, do center by committee. We needed another committee member. |
We did discuss a number of proposals, and in the end, they liked the qualifying offer. We're very happy to have him back. |
We knew we were the first. It was a selling point. We also wanted him to feel the belief we had in him. |
We like a lot of things that Chris can do. And we are excited to have him. He's only 23 years old and he can run. Those are the types of guys we are looking for. |
We like him and we've liked him for a long time. We didn't want to do a deal just to do a deal. He's somebody that we targeted and somebody we feel can help us. |
We like him. We want him back. I've said we'll try to get something done, and now we'll have to wait and see how it goes. I can't imagine anything that might happen between now and July 1 to change that. |