Captain_Caveman wrote:Ernest wrote:Bad-Thoma wrote:
There really are. For the record, for those people, I don't give a **** about the ownership's money either excepting when it's mismanaged in a way that will cost us chances to improve down the road. The Theis trade was a good financial move, not because it saves the owners money, because it keeps the repeater penalty from limiting the teams ability to pay players should we get to the border of contention again. It's really, really **** simple. I mean really, really **** simple.
It's amazing how many people on here don't understand. It's been spelled out so many times. People are just willingly ignorant. Feel like there are 5 or 6 of us who get it and everyone else is screaming "fire Ainge."
On a board where one of our best posters just got a 12-hour ban for saying this place sucks, I'm not gonna go too far here. Its a message board and all opinions within board rules have a right to be stated. But speaking for myself, as frustrating as the team and last 12 months of life have been, I'll just be honest and say that I am only here for like 30% of the posters here. Beyond that, I don't care for the bulk of the discourse, the rampant entitlement, or what I perceive to be some taking out their COVID fatigue and/or lives out on the team.
To the topic, no, you do not trigger a repeater tax at potentially $20-25m above the tax threshold next year just to go $1m above the tax now for 29 games of Theis on a sub-.500 team that might not even make the playoffs.
Yeah I think you are ok. Unless you are planning on losing your **** like truth.
I agree that the entitlement in this area is extreme. We have a whole generation of Boston sports fan that have been spoiled by Tom Brady and a good amount of success from every major sports team in this city.
On a whole, Danny Ainge has been a reason for that success. But, the last two plus years have certainly been less than spectacular for this management team. I have been willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until we let Hayward walk. But between that move, our subpar drafting, and poor roster construction. It’s been a tough to watch us squander what looked to be an opportunity to win a championship.
I know this isn’t all on Danny as some of the things that happened have been out of his control. But I just feel the organization has only been half way inn on winning. The last two years are prime examples. Kyrie asked for vets and roster improvement his last year here. We weren’t willing to go for it. If we had listened maybe Kyrie isn’t checked out and we win a championship in a down year. IMO these last two championships were winnable. But we weren’t willing to make short term win now moves to go for it. All to preserve picks that became Grant Williams , Romeo Langford, Aaron Nesmith and Payton Pritchard.
Honestly you could argue , we did the same thing during the KG era. Stupidly low balling Tony Allen, and despite it being a bad deal on the back end, not resigning James Posey. All because we wanted flexibility moving forward when we were in the middle of championship contention.
on this team..... Now thats a ten year window 
