sully00 wrote:itrsteve wrote:Somebody needs to explain to him how the CBA works and the implication if the C’s pay him over the QA and the impact of the upcoming seasons. If you sat him down with the numbers then maybe he wouldn’t feel so insulted if the big picture was known?
I’m torn as I don’t want him to leave, but 18/19 isn’t the season to start the luxury tax counter. There’s a very short window to “go for it” financially and it can’t start until next season.
Boston can go over the tax this year and back under next year and it stops the repeater clock. Honestly the tax really doesn't matter the team is going to pay it. What you can't do is overpay role players. Marcus Smart needs to get paid his job isn't to manage Boston's salary structure. Boston can't get into a 4 year deal with Smart that has them vastly overpaying him for the mins he is playing two years from now that make it a problem to sign Brown and Tatum while keeping and Irving, Haywood, and Horford.
If you value a guy at 11-12 mil then pay him his money. But you can't go to 15-16 mil because you might lose him otherwise, lose him and go pay somebody else to do his job for 5 mil.
Agree in general, but with a couple notes:
1.) Repeater penalty applies if you have been in the tax for three out of four seasons. So going under for one year doesn't exactly "reset" the clock - it just gets you partway to resetting the clock. It's still beneficial to put off the beginning of that 3-in-4 stretch, if possible.
2.) It would just be an awful shame to start the clock because you came in above the tax by like a mil. Not the end of the world, but if you're within a hairsbreadth of staying under anyway, it makes some sense to try to do so, and put off the start of the clock for a year when you're going to be clearly, unavoidably over, like we presumably will be next year.
Basically, you don't want the value of a minimum contract to be the margin by which you're over, because then you're basically paying the tax for that minimum player.
