Johnny Bball wrote:What should happen with Dragic, who can play, is he goes for bad salary and pick(s). Boucher I'm not sure yet(he could go piece for piece - bench big for bench guard), but you put Boucher and Dragic together and I'm looking at someone like Cleveland with a year on Kevin Love to net draft picks.
Which is a reason you take Dragic's salary, because you can work above the cap and trade it for bad contracts, or anyone.
If dragic eventually gets bought out there will be a ton of ppl saying "i told you so" and "why didnt we do that from the start". I don't get that perspective. He's in our back pocket. Even if there's a small chance something materializes (ie salary filler in a big trade)....why wouldn't we wait and see? What's the downside in waiting?
I also think there's a tendency to undervalue what we have in precious. He's already far out-peforming his contract. How much would we have to pay on the open market for his contributions? Maybe around 8 million? We're getting him for a cap hit of 2 and he's locked in 2 more years (albeit at an increasing cap hit but it's still gonna be significantly below market value).
Small market teams NEED below market value contracts to be good in thus league. We got 3 in precious, delano and barnes. Hopefully we can add another one for 4 years in the next draft. OG and Fred are also decent contracts. All bodes well.
