The Clippers sign another point guard! Taking over the Rockets abandoned player, their strength is generally controversial, or they may have other intentions

July 27th news, in the early morning of this morning, a new reinforcement news came from the Clippers. According to famous reporter Shams, free agent Tae-Tai Washington has agreed to sign a one-year contract with the Clippers. Later, the Clippers Law Murray also confirmed this statement, but speculation also arose about the Clippers' signing of the Taytai-Washington contract. Because the Clippers' lineup is now complete and there are 14 formal contracts. In addition, there are three two-way contracts. According to general practice, the team will keep the vacant quota and wait until the transaction deadline to operate the transaction, or sign some players at a lower price to supplement the lineup.

In addition, according to the current lineup salary space of the Clippers, this year the Clippers split out two contracts with the middle class, giving 8 million to Lopez, and the remaining 5 million to Bill, so the hard salary cap was triggered, and the total salary this year cannot exceed 195,945 million. On the other hand, after the Clippers made some reinforcements and gave the veteran's basic salary to Paul, the team now has only $1.2 million left. In this space, it is impossible to sign Taeta with a formal contract, because he has been in the league for more than 3 years and his basic salary is 2.16 million. So even if the Clippers want to give Taeta a formal contract, judging from the current situation, it is impossible to sign at all, and it is likely to be a two-way contract.

In addition, Taytai Washington's strength is indeed average. He was selected as the 29th pick in the first round of the Rockets in 2022. At that time, he was also hailed by the outside world as a very potential point guard and also performed amazingly in the development league games. However, after returning to the NBA, Taetay's performance was not satisfactory, and his abilities were very mediocre, and he was abandoned by the Rockets early, and then he began his wandering journey. To be honest, the current strength of Taytai Washington is not as good as Jordan Miller, the Clippers have cut the previous player Jordan Miller, so this time the Clippers signed him, and it is more likely that they just want to scrape the lottery again to see if they can continue to improve the depth of their point guard position.

However, there is another possibility. Of course, this possibility is relatively small, that is, the Clippers may be promoting some small trades, such as Bogdan, who is currently in a dangerous position. If Bogdan is traded with other rookies, the lineup will be vacant for official places. In this extreme case, the Clippers may give Taytai Washington a formal contract. Based on the above information, I personally think that the Clippers signed Taytai Washington this time and may adjust the quota of the two-way contract and increase the depth of the point guard. However, Taytai is just average in combat, and Taylon Lu will not expand the rotation to him, so the impact on the Clippers' strength is negligible.