chakdaddy wrote:GreenDreamer wrote:This is why I think Ray needs to go. Split his contract into two or three players, and we can still be OK, meanwhile try and concentrate guys like Tony and Veal into a single contract. Then you have the flexibility down the road to wheel and deal.
Turn one All-Star into 2 or 3 role players...no thanks. All these other teams are adding borderline all-stars for nothing...we'd lose ground really fast if we let Ray evaporate like that. The worst ideas have been these Ray for a bunch of Bobcats proposals.
Not necessarily two or three role players, but one good player and a role player. If Ray was 28 years old, I'd be singing another tune, but he's getting on in years, and having 60 million dollars wrapped up in three aging players is very stressful on a team. It makes it hard to do deals and it makes it hard to keep a good bench. Ray is still great, but with no one to back him up this season he was flat out exhausted at the end. Diminishing returns, dude.
We don't just have three max deals, we have three max deals on OLDER players, which means that they make more money than younger players on a max deal, which is the way that the CBA is set up. Our team has three big time players who get paid a bunch of money, and the rest of the roster is low paid, with Perk's 4 million a year (what a steal he's been when most bigs on his level get 8 to 10 mill) being the next biggest contract. Apart from Rondo, who isn't get paid anywhere near he is worth, we have a bunch of guys getting paid exactly what they are worth, peanuts, which is all that we can afford. That is why we have no bench.
We just picked up the only guy in division 1 history to record a quadruple
double. Rondo just found a new best friend.
