3ballbomber wrote:AirP. wrote:3ballbomber wrote:Fortunate to have a defensive minded coach & an oragnisation run by Riles who understands the importance of defense & focusing on acquiring & developing players defensively.
Isn't it odd then that they handed out large contracts in back to back off seasons to bad defensive players?
I can understand why they did, i won't justify it as many get paid too much too early in todays league. But that's 2 out of how many defensive players we've acquired & developed. Herro is young & can still be developed - he's in the right organization to do so & we've seen that he's defense has already improved. Hell we acquired Love, we're all well aware of his defense but currently has been sound defensively holding Randle 1 for 3, Barrett 2 for 6 & Brunson 0 for 1 - combined 3 for 10.
I was talking Robinson and Herro and something that's not talked about, what do the other players that aren't highly paid think when they're preached about effort and defense yet see the last 2 big contracts going out to non-defenders. I get why Gabe is overshooting, taking some really questionable shots, defense doesn't pay, offense pays.
Robinson's resigning was way worse than Herro's when talking bad defenders on a defensive team just for the simple fact that there was a replacement on the roster already in Strus under contract. I still don't understand Robinson's contract when it sounded like Miami was only competing with themselves for Robinson's services that summer. This organization has been handing out bad contracts for nearly a decade now. Love the no tanking and keep fighting attitude, don't like the overpaying your own players. Vincent is basically Nunn 2.0 and Nunn was allowed to sign elsewhere for 5 mil a year, I expect a crazy contract to be given to Gabe.
