legacyinthemakin89c wrote:HK you really gotta get Boozer out of your head. He will not make us a better team. He is a terrible defender and won't play 30 games a season. He is in no way worth the money, were going to go after him, anyone who pays him is incredibly stupid.
You know, I used to think this way, but in all honesty the fact of the matter is that we're not going to land Bosh or Amar'e, and anyone that can give you 20-10 at 50% or higher is going to help this team at this point, and defense is usually infectious. Was Pierce or Allen know as good defenders before they joined Boston? No, not really. I figure if he's surrounded by players committed to playing defense, he will at the very least improve.
There are some injury questions with Boozer, obviously, but prior to this season he only missed 9 games over the past two seasons, which isn't bad by any stretch of the imagination.
Now, we can either take Boozer or simply watch Bosh go to Texas and Amar'e go wherever the hell they run. We can then blow our load on some over the hill players or something of that nature. Or, we can take Boozer, who'll be 28, have Kander work with him (I mean, he pretty much revived Dice's dead career) and then get back to winning.
Boozer isn't going to get much in the ways of offers. No one is going to give him a max contract because most of the teams that are that far under the cap aren't looking to add a deal like that. So we're the frontrunners and I doubt he'd turn down a 5 year, 75 million dollar deal similar to what Mr. Brand got, and really, that isn't that bad considering guys like Bosh and Amar'e could command somewhere around 6 years, 120 million dollars.
