shrink wrote:Here's my canned Oden response:
While I like the potential upside Oden would represent, he has more value in Portland because fans have dreamed of it for far longer, and I don't think he could be traded for a fair value. However, he'd probably be a mistake for us financially as well.
Oden is due a new contract in 18 months.
Who here is confident about giving him four years, at $10 mil plus? What has he shown? And even if you are OK locking into a long, risky contract, what do you do when another team (probably POR) offers your RFA $12?
Here's my canned response.
23.9 minutes, 11.1 points, 8.5 rebounds, 2.3 blocks, 26.0 PER, 13.3 opponent PER
Risk, meet Reward. Reward, meet Risk.
C.lupus wrote:I think I'd have to say no to this. Fernandez is someone I'd like to target. Oden has great potential but is pretty scary given his history. I'm not sure how he'd fit in a running offense, either. I'd probably do something involving those two but adding Miller is the deal breaker for me. I don't want to pay an over-the-hill PG $7-8m through 2012. We would need a vet PG that would be a good backup to Flynn or Rubio and Miller seems to want to be the starter. Too much financial risk, chemistry risk, and injury risk for me.
As far as Miller goes, the salaries of Portland's players are equal to the salaries of Minnesota's players next year, and he has a TEAM option for 2012. So it's only 1 year at a semi-bad salary, where as Fernandez has 2 years on a great salary before being a RFA (we could extend him this year rather than wait though). It more than evens out, since it's total salary for the talent vs total salary for the talent.
