puppa bear wrote:AirP. wrote:puppa bear wrote:The thing that gets missed is that we couldn’t just spend that money elsewhere. We only were able to spend that because we had his bird rights. We signed him to a deal that will be tradable and will work as a filler.
When he gets used to this ball he won’t look as bad and he’ll win us a game in a series or two in the PO. Then we’ll all be singing. A different tune.
If not, Pat will ship his arse at the deadline.
Well, if there was a demand for Robinson's services a S&T may have been available since Miami had his Bird rights.
The thing that gets forgotten in this theory is that he would be subject to BYC conditions (http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q93) and would have only counted as a minimum salary going out. Now we have a Jan 15 trade restriction for him (rather than the usual Dec 15), because he meets the BYC conditions.
We really only could have gotten anything for him if we were a cap team, at which point we couldn’t have gotten Lowry. For both him & Nunn signing either to keep them or to trading them later were really the only options.
Sure, Miami could have taken back small salary of someone they liked and a draft pick or had him in a package, there were some options other than instantly signing him for 90 mil over 5 years.
If he's going to be utilized as filler and maybe somewhat of an asset in a trade I'm fine with that, I'm just not sure that's whats going to happen this season (maybe in the offseason). If Oladipo looks good by this next offseason, he's going to have to be paid and they year after Herro's going to get paid.
