Knightro wrote:The Effect wrote:Knightro wrote:
I would argue that the 2nd round pick strategy is *very* likely to change moving forward given how top heavy the roster is about to be financially.
They're going to need cheap players to fill out the bottom of the roster very soon.
Doubtful, we've always had space for good cheap young talent with potential and weham proved time and time again they would rather sell the draft picks and then sign guys like admiral or Iggy or other league min scrubs they can find
They refuse to scout past the top 15-20 and instead would rather put a few bucks on the owners pockets and then enjoy their vacation til the season starts
It’s not at all about roster space though. It’s all about finances moving forward. The Magic are going to be a luxury tax team for the first time in a very long time.
Indirectly, you’re actually kind of making my point for me here,
The Magic aren’t going to have the 14th and 15th guys on the roster as veterans making $3.5 million dollars when they could have those roster spots being 2nd round picks making $1.2 million dollars.That 4.6M difference may not seem like a lot, but it is when each dollar over the tax eventually starts getting compounded.
Actually, I think YOU just proved my point for me
Pretty sure guys like iggy and admiral were originally signed for league min, $500-600k type deals
They might of been re-signed later for more, but originally they were brought in for peanuts (relatively speaking obviously, pretty sure we would all love to be making 600k a year
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So looking at admiral, he was signed during the 21-22 season originally, earlier that year we had the 33rd pick in the draft and sold it to the clippers who used it on Jason Preston.
Admiral was signed as a 2way player for the remainder of the year for 200k and then 500k the next year, much less than the 33rd pick in the draft (preston), who made $1.1m and $1.6m over those 2 years.
So if we are going just based off money, it seems that the most likely scenario for us NOW would be to continue to punt 2nd rounders (and late firsts) and sign more udfa types off the street for pennies instead of signing these draft picks, especially the first rounders with their guaranteed deals.
Like looking at our Den pick this year, 25th overall, last year the 25th pick signed a 4 year 13m deal......do you think Weltman is really gonna bring in a rookie at that price or do you think he would rather sign a guy like Colin Castleton (michigan and florida man, seems perfect lol) off free agency for 2way\league min money and save the cap space to play basically the same amount of minutes?
