spade57 wrote:Consequence wrote:Cleveland is at a different rebuilding stage, though. Yes, our team stinks, but we have more young pieces playing key roles than they do, since we sucked enough the last couple of years to have lottery picks already added. Gilbert took those contracts on to accelerate their rebuild by getting more young players in the system, which is great, but with out situation, it wasn't as much of a no-brainer to take on big, useless money like Cleveland did. Will the 9th pick in this draft be worth the tradeoff of having to pay Baron for the rest of his contract and having to give him significant minutes if you want him to be tradeable again? I think yes, but there is a tradeoff there that can be dependent on an individual team's situation. I would have liked to have seen something like that trade done for us as well, but I also understand why BC felt that the benefit of having a clearer salary cap picture was worth it.
Yeah I understand. But like you said, it would of really helped us out if B.C was able to get a deal like that done. Hell I'd even take on Rip for their pick.
Not disagreeing either, but if we took on Rip, we'd have less minutes for DeMar, Sonny, JJ, etc to develop with. If we were going to just sit Rip, we'd have a malcontent on our hands with no value to try to trade again, so we'd be eating the whole contract. And if we had played him, who knows, he may have made us better and messed with our own pick. As someone else said a few posts ago, it may have been better to just suck again next year without having that contract on the books.
your right. But yeah. A new owener /majority owner is needed asap
