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Ausar Thompson cancels Pacers workout

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Re: Ausar Thompson cancels Pacers workout 

Post#81 » by mattao313 » Sat Jun 24, 2023 6:05 am

tmorgan wrote:
mattao313 wrote:
tmorgan wrote:
If he improves, pay him. If he’s still lost, let him walk.

Having Wiseman walk is a much better result than paying Bey 18 mil a year (or whatever, 14 to 20 is my guess) to not shoot when he should, drive and get blocked, and play mediocre defense because he’s too slow. He just HAD to go, because he was a starter here and couldn’t remain one if we want to get better.

I hope we dump Bagley, and either trade or let Wiseman and Killian walk. None of those three has a role on a good team barring drastic improvement.
We where never going to pay him that we could have just let him walk. You can use all the same arguments with bey as well we lack wing depth and traded a wing for a big when we already have better players there. Bey at 10-13mil is better than Wiseman at the same price.

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I don’t know if we were going to pay him or not, neither do you. But he definitely had history as a starter here and didn’t deserve to be one. It was an uncomfortable situation, given his relationship with Cade in particular. Bad things could have happened.

Now if we pay Wiseman, barring massive improvement, a similar amount, that’s even worse.
Sure I just don't like this idea people keep pushing that we had to pay him. The market dictates his value, If some other team wanted to overpay him go ahead but with thus new cba coming into play I don't see him getting huge money. We had this same discussion about Kennard and he ended up with like 12mil/yr.

The idea of paying a 15min rim running centers is so backwards to me, duren is our true center I'd much rather go with a more versatile player off the bench.

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