OrlandoNed wrote:AshBlackstone wrote:I can't understand why anyone in this thread is ready to open up the check book, and spend $20-$30 million a year on Chandler Parsons, Al Horford, Mike Conley, or Nicolas Batum.
These are not stars. They are role players. Spending large chunks of cap space on role players is how you end up 46-36 every year, and never contending. As a rebuilding team, if you're not landing elite players in free agency, you're better off holding on to your money.
Signing any of those guys is the kind of move you make to put your team over the top, when you're already a contender.
You are underrating those guys quite a bit, those are all-star/near all-star level players. If we were to not pay anybody because they weren't "elite", we'd never get better as fast as we'd like. Orlando is not a major destination team, if we need to improve via free agency we have to pay for the best attainable talent. Some of you have caviar taste for free agents, but don't realize we have canned tuna free agent appeal. The best philosophy we can have in free agency is to gladly accept the doubles and singles that we can actually make instead of fruitlessly praying for home runs.
I would argue that the Orlando Magic rank in the top 5 in the league among NBA franchises, when it comes to signing big names in free agency in the 21st century. I never understand the "no free agency appeal" tag.
We've lured more in their prime free agents to Orlando for long term deals than the Los Angeles Lakers in the 21st century. That is a complete and total fact.
