Post#1051 » by gambitx777 » Wed Jul 26, 2017 12:11 am
wonderful trade by the nets,
Is crabe a "bad contract" sure he is way way way over paid!
But the nets have years of lost youth to make up for and taking on slightly over paid youngsters to help tax struggling teams is a smart way to do it.
They have so much room they need guys like crabe, he could turn into something interesting, if not at least they tried and hes got 3 years left on that deal. much better than over paying someone this summer for 4 years.
Alot of people are saying WOW how did they dump him with out a pick when teams were asking 2 firsts for anderson or the lakers had to pay a first and a young player to dump mosgov.
You have to look at the player and his contract.
Crabbe is 25 and while hes not worth half his money, he does shoot threes and again hes 25 years old. he could still blow up and while he will never EVER be worth 19 and a half a year, to some team, he kind of is, its the one mans trash another mans treasure story ive been pimping for years. The nets have lost so many draft picks they need to take young kids on over paid deals to make up for the lack of youth with them being in rebuild mode till they get back on their feet. This makes perfect sense. mozgov and anderson cost so much to dump because they are what they are, mozgov, finished, and anderson nothing more than an overpaid streaky shooter who can't rebound.
crabe go dumped for cheap because hes still got a marketable skill and when you take away his contract, he is still 25 and useful on the court.
Now Mahinmi for example, is 30, and while over paid by a bit, no as much as crabe, but when healthy he does have an elite skill set. He is one of the better defencive centers in the league. So I think that this more than anything proves that the market, situation and circumstances determines the value of a player, not some preconceived notion of what someones worth that we make up in our heads.