NBA Free Agency: Maurice Evans Returning To Wizards On One-Year Deal, According To Report
by Mike Prada on Dec 16, 2011 7:44 AM EST
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PrintThe Washington Wizards will be bringing back Maurice Evans on a one-year contract, according to multiple reports. Craig Stouffer of the Washington Examiner was the first person I spotted who actually wrote something on the move, while Michael Lee of the Washington Post reports the deal was for the veteran's minimum.
Evans was just a throw-in piece in the trade involving Kirk Hinrich and Jordan Crawford last February, but actually retained a bit of value, playing 27.4 minutes a game and averaging nearly 10 points a contest. On the court, he still wasn't especially productive, but at least he was good enough to be an eighth or ninth man. His real value to the Wizards, though, is off the court, where he seemed to emerge as a veteran leader in the Wizards' eyes.
The Wizards' roster is now at 18 players, including training camp invites Mardy Collins, Aaron Pettway and Mike Wilks. As Stouffer points out, though, there's still room for Nick Young if he re-signs because Larry Owens' contract is non-guaranteed.
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I guess that leadership role means more to him than I thought
If he’s turning down the extra money from NY
by Bullet Nation in Exile on Dec 16, 2011 7:54 AM EST reply actions
Also
Surprised the Knicks didn’t push harder, losing Shawne Williams to the Nets…
by Bullet Nation in Exile on Dec 16, 2011 8:25 AM EST up reply actions
Remember last week when Evans' agent tweeted that an Evans contract signing was "imminent"?
Perhaps I have a mistaken impression of what that word means.
I like the signing. This team is going to be loaded with competent players. Not too many duds on that bench.
Not many wins projected in the Christmas stocking
But at least there’s no coal, eh?
by Bullet Nation in Exile on Dec 16, 2011 8:40 AM EST up reply actions
I have some reservations
Mo Evans is a good pick up – don’t get me wrong…
It’s just that the focus for this year should be on developing the young players – and that means playing time. Flip’s has a habit of benching young players for mistakes, and he loves mistake free veteran guys. Hinrich played 30 minutes a night while here, Evans played 22 minutes a night. Even hobbling Josh Howard (who only played in 18 games) still played 23 mintues a night)…
Now with guys like Turiaf, Evans, Rashard Lewis, and Roger Mason , Flip could have an unconscious tendency to play those guys heavy minutes, especially in the 4th quarters of games.
I used to have super powers until my psychiatrist took them away.
Mo leads by example
Sure, we need to give court time to develop the young guys, but we also need to have guys like Mo that work hard and play defense to show the young guys how to earn that playing time.
I really hope you're wrong, Rook
But I have a sinking feeling you’re right… The kids aren’t going to get any better watching from the bench. We have to figure out what exactly we have. If that means some ugly stretches of basketball here and there, so be it. Ultimately, as much as Flip is a “teacher,” I’m not totally convinced he’s the right guy for a rebuild…
This is my exact reaction as well
It’s nice to have a veteran on the roster to help with leadership but…
we now have two veterans at the small forward position, the position at which we have stock piled young guys at… why are we wasting our time drafting these guys if we don’t plan on playing them?
the drafting moves and the free agency signings don’t seem to be matching each other imo.
From the interview of Trevor Booker that I saw the other day, I would say he wants out of here. And it’s sad because when he got minutes here, he played great. But with all of these veterans on the squad now, he will go back to getting little to no minutes at all in the season he is finally supposed to start getting minutes… who wants to warm a bench for two seasons in a row when you deserve to be playing.
I think there’s gonna be a lot of cursing of Flip this season as he continues to play the vets over the young guys and we continue to lose games. So here’s to a season of Fire Flip comments, unless something in him has changed (yeah right).
That's why I hope Flip is taking marching orders from EG/Ted.
They want to build the team the right way. I don’t think they’ll allow Flip to just play the vets at the expense of player development. Ted said himself that yeah, he wants wins, but more than that, he wants a championship contender. That won’t happen with these middle-of-the-road vets.
Now, if Flip gets the idea that his job security is based on wins, he’ll of course play more vets (so would I). But if management assures him that steady improvement, and player development, is the goal, then we’ll see the young’uns getting most of the PT. And they’ll learn professionalism from the vets.
This is a different season though.
Nobody is going to realistically expect evans to play over 25 minutes a night in a five in six. This season is all about depth. Everybody is going to get significant burn.
Geting it done.
by Knowledge92 on Dec 16, 2011 12:04 PM EST up reply actions
Kind of Surprising. I hope he is okay with playing 5-8 minutes a night.
If we resign Nick our squad looks like:
Wall, Mack
Young, Crawford, Mason
Rashard, Singleton, Vesely, Mo
Blatche, Booker, Turiaf
McGee, Seraphin
That is a pretty good mix of leaders and young guys. I just hope minutes don’t get gobbled up by guys like Mo and Mason. Hopefully Ted and Ernie let the vets know before they signed here what their roles would be.
low risk cheap leader
If this were a 82 game season this wouldn’t make sense. We’re already loaded at both forward spots and center. But we need all we can to make it through the back to backs and it’s better than calling up the d-league when guys get hurt
by Jordo on Dec 16, 2011 9:14 AM EST via iPhone app reply actions
Problem is
That D-Leaguer would be sitting on the bench, inactive… while Singleton, Vesely and Booker would get some serious on-court learning time…
With Evans – it could be Singleton or Vesely sitting…..
I used to have super powers until my psychiatrist took them away.
The more veterans the merrier
I think this is more of a chemistry thing than a playing time issue, even tho I think the pile-up at SF will be just fine in this compressed season. It doesn’t hurt to bring back the gems from last season.
this is a culture move
they are doing everything they can to distance themselves from gungate and change the culture of the locker room.
can’t say i disagree with the approach. quite frankly a hypothetical starting lineup that includes blatche, mcgee, AND young frightens me from a focus and concentration standpoint. i think people understate this factor in the team’s stance toward young.
by DarrellWalkerFan on Dec 16, 2011 11:22 AM EST reply actions
Can Mo play SG? (I know he doesn't shoot very well)
Is the team doing this…. just in case…. NY is not returning?
Good Pickup !!! Wow Our Practice Games Are Gonna get even more Intense
This Will make our young team better. Now Work hard & Earn your Minutes nothing is a given !!!
I'm eating crow and I'm sorry @MrMichaelLee
My comment from an earlier thread
“Maurice Evans, other Wizards happy about agreement”
It amuses me that Mo Evans is the go-to quote when one of the beat writers needs to bring a Wizards angle to a story. Is Mustafa Shakur not available? Even though we have 14 of 15 roster spots locked up, I hope Ernie breaks with all rational decision-making and signs him to a new contract. What’s more important, that 15th roster spot or Michael Lee’s career?
Also see:
Wizards Insider: Evans ‘We were left with no options’ 11/15/11
Wizards Insider: The education of Maurice Evans 10/14/11
Wizards’ Maurice Evans: ‘We have prepared for this fight’ 10/12/11
“Maurice Evans, other Wizards happy about agreement”
It amuses me that Mo Evans is the go-to quote when one of the beat writers needs to bring a Wizards angle to a story. Is Mustafa Shakur not available? Even though we have 14 of 15 roster spots locked up, I hope Ernie breaks with all rational decision-making and signs him to a new contract. What’s more important, that 15th roster spot or Michael Lee’s career?
Also see:
Wizards Insider: Evans ‘We were left with no options’ 11/15/11
Wizards Insider: The education of Maurice Evans 10/14/11
Wizards’ Maurice Evans: ‘We have prepared for this fight’ 10/12/11
by Emmet O'Neal on Dec 17, 2011 2:04 AM EST up reply actions
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