Will Bird waive Price

[Jose Slaughter]

http://www.storytellerscontracts.info/resources/Indiana.htm

The above web site list Price's 2011-2012 salary as 884,293.

However only 200,000 is guaranteed if he is released prior to the start of the season. I realize that is a very modest savings of just 664,293.

Is Price & what he brings to this team worth the small amount of money he would make or could that money be better used on someone else?

[Winner]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

I say waive him and sign a better third string point guard. Travis Diener?

[Hicks]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

I don't think he should. I don't think he will.

[ChristianDudley]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

At that price (no pun intended lol), I'd say keep him. He's worth every penny I'd say.

[Sookie]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

I would hope that if he's going to waive him, he'd do it now/soon (or perhaps earlier) so Price would have an opportunity to get on a different team before opening game starts. Just because that's the correct way to treat players.

But seeing as Lance is, to put it nicely, a work in progress, and we've just traded our backup shooting guard, meaning Hill is going to have to play pretty much all of those minutes, I'd say waiving Price wouldn't be the brightest idea.

I also doubt you put up with a season of Price coming off an injury just so that you can waive him when he's fully healthy.

[xBulletproof]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

As far as guaranteed contracts go, I believe we still have an open roster spot. Even if we want to sign a free agent it won't change much. If we had a full roster of guaranteed contracts and he found a player he wanted, it wouldn't shock me however.

[D squared fan]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

I don't think it ever crossed Birds mind

[Dr. Awesome]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

You know, I don't get it.

I mean, AJ Price is no all-star, but as a third string PG he is damn good. It seems as if all of a sudden our third string PG can't make mistakes? I mean, obviously that is ideal, but not realistic.

I cant think of another third string PG who can come in and take over the game like he can. I mean, obviously his game has a lot of flaws, but every third string PG is coming with flaws, I'd much rather have his game in that slot than most if not all the other third string PGs out there.

[Dr. Awesome]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

This may be a better way of putting it: How many third string PGs single handedly change the momentum of the game?

Granted, he killed it a few times as well, but with a third string PG your always going to have to take the good with the bad. If anything, when AJ is in black hole mode it should fall on Vogel to take him out.

[Kraft]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

I think it just depends on whether or not he needs the roster spot. Otherwise, why cut someone making minimum wage when your Nos. 2 and 3 PGs might turn out to be more useful as shooting guards?

[Pacer Fan]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

As I've mention on here before about his 200k. I would waive him.

[jeffg-body]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

As far as a third string PG I think it would be stupid to waive Price. Sure he has some flaws to his game but he is a guy that works hard and will try his hardest when called upon. If DC were to have an injury that would require a long layoff I believe that Price could step up to the back-up role and play in an acceptable fashion better than anything that is out there right now.

[Sookie]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

This may be a better way of putting it: How many third string PGs single handedly change the momentum of the game?

Granted, he killed it a few times as well, but with a third string PG your always going to have to take the good with the bad. If anything, when AJ is in black hole mode it should fall on Vogel to take him out.

If Vogel wouldn't put Price in the game where he is the only person who can/is willing to score in a half court offense (come on, Foster, Josh, rush, and Dahntay...and Josh was hurt.) you wouldn't have to worry about "black hole mode" for AJ. (Not really Vogel's fault there either, he was under pressure to change the SG and PF spot, which took away the offense in the second unit.)

When he's with other players who can score, he's much better. In fact, the last five minutes of game two he was fantastic..he could actually run an offense.

I don't like Price because he's an all star talent. He's clearly not. He was hindered last year, but he is a guy that actually doesn't have too many flaws, and his best asset is running an offense, which he has rarely been able to do here..and that playoff game showed he can. (Although I curse Jim O'brien's name every time I see him drive to the basket and kick it out for a three..) I like Price for many of the same reasons I like Rush. You win with guys like AJ. Solid, and an incredibly high BBall IQ..which I find to be more important than any skill (other than dribbling) for a PG. It's not a coincidence that our record is significantly better when Price plays than when he doesn't.

Yes, he can "get going" and swing the momentum of a game. That's also been a quality of his I've always liked, but that's not his best quality. And it really isn't the way he should be played. Although if it happens while he's playing, good for us.

[Psyren]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

No, Price is good as a 3rd string PG.

Hes not great, but you can do a lot worse when it comes to a 3rd string PG

[Naptown_Seth]

Re: Will Bird waive Price

This may be a better way of putting it: How many third string PGs single handedly change the momentum of the game?

Granted, he killed it a few times as well, but with a third string PG your always going to have to take the good with the bad. If anything, when AJ is in black hole mode it should fall on Vogel to take him out.

And as I would have done with Josh and Rush, isn't it realistic to say "lets see what these guys can do with more time under Vogel and further away from the JOB era"?

Some of what Price and the rest of the team was doing was created by JOB and his ability to deny PT if he didn't like what he saw. Guys could play well and get yanked.

We might as well dump George and Tyler too since they struggled to show much with JOB in the way. And even post-JOB those 2 were up and down as you might expect.

I just hate that JOB was such a problem and was ruining the chance to do something with surprisingly cheap talent and right after you finally remove him (at least a year too late) you then start dumping all the guys he was holding back.

AJ can play as far less of a scoring type of PG because he has done it. It's not crazy to think that JOB was part of the problem there and that given a different system and focus that he could still return to his UConn style of PG play.