nate33 wrote:prime1time wrote:We decided that Beal was a supermax player the moment we started giving him power over shaping the roster. We gave him leverage by waiting to sign him until his free agency year. At best we save several million dollars, but it's semantics. Our feature is tied to Beal. And to say that we shouldn't pay him supermax is to say that that should no longer be the case. Which is to say that we should tear down the roster and rebuild.
Yes. If Beal finishes the season averaging less than 23 points at a TS% less than .530, we should offer him significantly less than the supermax or be prepared to tear down and rebuild.
Signing Beal to a supermax means Ted is committing to several years of luxtax payments. Ted isn't going to do that unless there is reason to believe that the team can plausibly make the 2nd round of the playoffs. If Beal is no longer a superstar, there is no chance whatsoever that the team can be among the top 4 teams in the East.
Beal is costing himself money with his play AND with his COVID stance coupled with what Kyrie and even with Ben Simmons pulled this year
I think teams are going to be careful not to sign a Wall, Westbrook, Simmons or Kyrie contract with anyone even a slight indication that that they are not going to provide the value to the team on the back half of the contract or if he has even a slight chance of not getting vaccination or if there is a chance that the player may have a mental issue that would keep them from playing or if they represented by rich Paul...
Not saying all of these apply to beal but if you supermax Beal or even max a guy of his level of current pay, you essentially have an Andrew Wiggins- good player but you are going to need some other players to lead the team to prominence-
Maybe Beal is better than he is showing but we keep watching him turn over the Beal with bad handles, missing open 3s and playing sporadic defense...