Texas Chuck wrote:Mavrelous wrote:Texas Chuck wrote:
Eh, even if one believes his mid-range based game is worth making him the centerpiece of an offense(I do not), his history tells you that you can't depend on him to play enough games. Then when you consider his game isn't particularly complimentary to legit offensive stars, I'm not sure he is positive value to many teams. 50 games of a subpar 2nd option who doesn't do much to make life easier for your first option or your role players and who isn't a good defender making what he makes? Not sure there is real value here.
He caps the ceiling of the team, but he's a volume scorer on average effeciency as a 1st option, and showed signs of being able to shoot 3s.
At sub 25% of the cap, 2 + 1, that's a good contract, I wouldn't target him if I wanted to win a ring, but to provide the push to make the PO, he's good enough.
We'll see how he fares this year.
If you thought he had a good chance at playing 70+ games, I get what you are saying. But the difference between him and say DeRozan is Derozan is going to play 75+ games and big minutes. BI misses 20 games a year in his best years, but he's averaged 45 games the last 4 years.
That's bad value at his cap figure imo.
Fingers crossed his health is rejuvenated away from New Orleans. At least we are not in the western conference bloodbath so we should still be a playin team even if he misses a bunch of games. 60 gp from him would make that contract worthwhile to me.
