OT: Bobcats Review
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:34 pm
http://thesportcount.com/2009/07/29/the ... yre-doing/
That list is sad.
I actually like the Okafor/Chandler trade for them, although it reeks of "accidentally good". They were paying Okafor like a franchise player, when he is most certainly not. They're still paying Chandler like one, when he isn't either, but in his case they're only doing so for 2 years instead of 4. A team can grow if they can find a way to overpay a guy like Okafor or Chandler after their core is built, but not if they overpay BEFORE it's built. At that point you've got 1/5 of your cap tied up in a marginal guy. Say you drafted all the rest of your players in the 3-18 spots (likely, if you're building), each of them will cost 1.5-6m per year for you to keep them, multiply by 10 - you're likely to land in the ~25-40m range. Add Okafor's 12m, and BOOM you're already somewhere between 40m and the cap - on unproven draft picks. You don't overpay for a C just because he's a C, you can only do it if it makes sense, and Okafor didn't. Factor in that they're hemorrhaging money, effectively lowering their cap, and that they have to have a few "savvy vets" for 4-7m, and BOOM, no proven talent, no proven leadership, no chemistry, no financial flexibility, money tied up long term in areas that don't produce to their needed levels, all of which sums up to Michael Jordan graduating from the Isaiah Thomas School of Wtfgm. They haven't changed any management, so as I said, I don't see this as a calculated good move, but it is.
That list is sad.
I actually like the Okafor/Chandler trade for them, although it reeks of "accidentally good". They were paying Okafor like a franchise player, when he is most certainly not. They're still paying Chandler like one, when he isn't either, but in his case they're only doing so for 2 years instead of 4. A team can grow if they can find a way to overpay a guy like Okafor or Chandler after their core is built, but not if they overpay BEFORE it's built. At that point you've got 1/5 of your cap tied up in a marginal guy. Say you drafted all the rest of your players in the 3-18 spots (likely, if you're building), each of them will cost 1.5-6m per year for you to keep them, multiply by 10 - you're likely to land in the ~25-40m range. Add Okafor's 12m, and BOOM you're already somewhere between 40m and the cap - on unproven draft picks. You don't overpay for a C just because he's a C, you can only do it if it makes sense, and Okafor didn't. Factor in that they're hemorrhaging money, effectively lowering their cap, and that they have to have a few "savvy vets" for 4-7m, and BOOM, no proven talent, no proven leadership, no chemistry, no financial flexibility, money tied up long term in areas that don't produce to their needed levels, all of which sums up to Michael Jordan graduating from the Isaiah Thomas School of Wtfgm. They haven't changed any management, so as I said, I don't see this as a calculated good move, but it is.