Zelaznyrules wrote:bwgood77 wrote:LukasBMW wrote:Front page article on realgm: Otto Porter Expected To Receive Max Contract Offers In Free Agency
LOL. Really?
It would be smart for us to sit back on the sidelines and "punt" on free agency once more year. Let teams handicap themselves with another round of maxing role players. We should offer only the true stars max deals AND if (when) they turn us down, we just
And we should absolutely try to move Len. Some team will max him and then we either have to let him walk OR pay him star money when he is only a backup center.
Of course Otto Porter should probably get a max. I was tired back in the day of our owner being cheap. If you can't pony up like the rest of the league is doing, sell the damn team. These guys are making money hand over fist. You can't just let the only assets you have walk out the door everyone involved with this league is overpaid.
You expect to find some really talented chump to come along and say "Hey, I can be a top 10 center for you guys and will take pennies on the dollar!" Not gonna happen.
I haven't really paid much attention to Washington or Porter but is he really that good? I would think max money should be reserved for players capable of being the 2nd best, perhaps 3rd best, player on a championship contending team. Do you see him as that kind of player or do you look at the distribution of cap money differently than I do.
Well, max money comes in layers, depending on how long you have been in the league. So it depends. Theoretically, you can probably have one 6+ year max guy and two under six year max guys plus role players (and guys on rookie contracts (VERY IMPORTANT). But if you nail draft pick after draft pick you can give out as many contracts as you want and only deal with the consequences or move one of the contracts if needed.
I would NEVER let a guy walk that has talent though. Right now Porter is easily their 2nd best player and getting better. A 62% TS % coming off a year with a 56.4% TS%.
You can dive into the advanced numbers which are good, but he is scoring 14.7 ppg, with 8.1 rpg, 2spg, 53.5% FG%, 41.4% 3pt PF %.
He has been more and more having monster games looking primed to break out. Zero chance I'd let the guy get away for any reason.
He's better than any player we have right now. I said this year because I was intrigued to him and was going to think about putting him into a trade deal, read their board, and read that they kind of think of him like we did of Warren. But he is better particularly this year at high volume high % 3s and rebounding. Maybe not quite the crafty scorer. Both have good steal rates though.
I also watch his numbers closely because I have him in fantasy. I earlier said if I was Washington I might try real hard to offer up Beal, Oubre, and a couple of lightly protected future firsts for Boogie, but of course if they can wait and add him to Wall/Porter, and the recent version of Beal in FA, that team could be really dangerous.
