paulpressey25 wrote:giraldo5 wrote:I don't think it changes anything. I think the two most likely landing spots would still be the Raptors and Jazz. The only difference is that they would want us to take bad a bad contract.
You and Baddy get this. But I'd like others on the board who really like Jennings to at least construct one trade where they send out $8-10 million of Jennings for four years and get back something positive.
That really should be the gauge of whether or not it makes sense to sign a guy to an extension worth "x" dollars. The minute after the guy signs the deal, can you move him for something positive?
I'd use that rule if I were Hammond on every contract he offers a player or accepts in a trade.
Only when we get a top ten team can we then maybe start to think about taking on neutral or trade negative contracts if we need to fill a role. But even then, we got screwed with Jason Caffey and Anthony Mason thinking we could overpay since we had the big three in place and really needed a PF.
I admit, if we sign BJ to a 5 year 10 mil per deal he either has raise his level of play to live up the deal or he won't be movable. If he is signed for 8.5 per however, even if there is no discernible difference in his play I think he will be easily movable for an expiring and a 1st rounder. If he isn't traded in the first 3 years of the deal, once he hits 26 years old (and once again assuming no improvement in his level of play), I don't think theres any way we could get back the 1st, so any trade after that point would probably have to be for a simple expiring or for a vet on BJs level.
The bottom line is, if we resign Jennings to a contract at any amount, 8 or 10 Mil or otherwise, we do it banking on him improving as a player. If we resign him and he doesn't improve we are pretty inevitably gonna be in a sh*tty situation. For that reason I do understand the people who believe that Jennings is not going to improve from where he is now as a player not wanting to resign him and wanting to trade him now. I really do. There is no guarantee that he is gonna be a better player in a year or two. I think he will, I hope he will, but I don't know how likely it is that he will.