PG Graveyard wrote:paulpressey25 wrote:PG Graveyard wrote:I'm still confused why Denver maxxed that dude early.
Yep. He had one good year, after two injury plagued seasons. And while he was a really interesting scorer, it wasn't like he was a great all-around great player.
Unless the guy is an all-star (then you max him immediately) or he agrees to a decent extension in exchange for financial security, you should always let your RFA's play it out, to prove themselves one more year at least.
We made that mistake with Larry Sanders and Henson if I recall. Both guys had RFA status, and while we didn't max them, they got at the time pretty big extensions given their play to date.
Yeah the Henson and Sanders deals were early too, but it made some sense in that there was a possibility they both have a great follow up year and get a bag....Clearly that didn't happen. With Porter though they just gave him the max amount they could early to be nice to a guy that no one was sure was that good. He's also crazy and incredibly injury prone. When does Jokic ask out?
Larry Sanders!?!?! OMG! At the end of this season, it looks like Horst will finally have cleaned up Hammond's mess! No more Larry on payroll!
(I've been counting the years on this and then we finally won a chip and I stopped checking).
