IceColdCubano wrote:QUIZ wrote:MettaWorldPanda wrote:I don't think it's going to be this bad. The team will creatively figure out a way to improve the roster with the expiring of Lowry and the possibility of dumping Oladipo's salary or stretching it giving us the opportunity to use the TAX MLE at very least. If you stretch Oladipo it gives us about 6 million worth of cap space away from the 2nd apron. I still think we need to shave off more or bring back less money when we make a trade. We will be making trades. The league as a whole have some teams in some trouble that need to get off some certain amount of salary. Not saying we are going to be stupid and give up Lowry and Oladipo for one player making a stupid amount of money but we can tactically take on some salary as long as it's within the confines of not destroying the cap next year.
Exactly this. The Heat for the first time in a long time actually have a lot of useful contracts to play with the match salary.
Regardless of the big game hunting stuff, the goal should be to turn the $40million in expiring salary that Dipo and Lowry make and the $19mill that Duncan makes, into usable functional rotation pieces for us.
As much as everyone wants a splashy star, we don’t need that to compete. What we do need though is a more balanced foster. Right now we have almost $60million invested in bench players or injured players (Lowry/Duncan/Dipo).
You have to find a way to turn that money into functional help, particularly in the front court.
A guy like Marcus Morris is a great option, he’s an expiring as well. Maybe he can be bad from the clippers for Lowry plus some sweetener.
I may have been a little too contrived on my previous post but the main point still stands.
Finally looking at our tax situation and listening to the experts along with Pat Riley press, tells me the type of wall that were facing.
You guys make it seem like we have all these moving parts, that interchangeable and capable of giving us lots of options its just not true.
Lets start with Oladipo, it doesn't help the team to stretch him this year, it would be more beneficial for us to let him expire next year to help us get out of the 2nd Apron. You could also trade him but it will need to be for another 1 year rental near his salary but since hes injured why would a team even do that to begin with. Unless Miami puts him a big deal for a big time player because the other team wants some expiring contracts its going to be hard to move his dead weight, which frankly helps us if we keep him.
Lowry again similar to Oladipo except far more likely to be used in a trade falls under the same, issue you cannot pair him up with a multiyear contract because you need his salary to drop at least by 1/3 if Oladipo stays and by 2/3 if Oladipo is traded for non expiring contract. Which means Miami if cannot do a 1 for 1 trade for Lowry would need to get back 2 players, 1 of them can have a multiyear deal, the other needs to be a smaller expiring.
As you can see, its not going to be as easy peasy as we think, contenders who are going to go over the 2nd Apron who have certain needs may be the ones you can get these types of assets where you trade expirings for expirings at different positions of need.
Well it depends on what the goal is. We are a tax team this year and we pretty much will be for the remainder of the run with this core so long as we have Herro/Jimmy/Bam signed for a combined $110mill.
If the goal is to get out of the tax then of course that’s not easy, you’d have to find teams that could eat our big salaries and send nothing back. No one is going to do that for free.
If however, the goal is to turn the salaries that we do have into more useful pieces, I think we’re set up better now than we have been in past years because of the various contracts we have to play with. Because of our cap situation using exception money or singing free agents is out the window, but we have a ton of options when it comes to trading for talent.
We have 40 million in expiring money in Dipo and Lowry. We have Duncan’s $19mill in the event that we’re sending out our bad salary and taking someone else’s bad salary back, and we also have Strus and Gabe’s bird rights which offer us more spending mechanisms.
For example if we let Gabe or Strus walk, we can only replace them with minim guys. If instead they’re signed for team friendly good value deals, that offers us other ways to improve in future years. Like for example, if Gabe is signed for 3yr $36mill or Strus for 3yr $30mill, those would both be useful contracts as trade filler eventually.
Also avoiding the tax and avoiding the second apron are two different things. The new CBA actually encourages you to spend a bit above the tax. It just heavily discourages you from being a massive spending for multiple years. We can walk that fine line.
Actually, that's what Pat wanted to do. He wanted to draft Chris Kaman for fit. I forget who it was, but someone else convinced him to draft Wade instead
