Haynes full of shit (no Nic 4 years, 46.5 Million) (confirmed)

So true. Still mind boggling that Minnesota actually tried to use completely imaginary cap-space to sign a player to an offer sheet. Never seen that one before.

 

We have been sold this song and dance before. Remember? Trading zach people were saying we would have 2 near max contacts in cap space....result....andre miller. Then this summer we had as much cap space as anyone...result.....resigned batum. Yay.

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And we won't have it until next summer. Amount we have not guaranteed. Its a good free agent pool wouldn't mind batum hitting the bricks personally

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Not to me... any other Blazer fans want to weigh in on our evil GM?

 

Well in reality we didn't have the cap space we wanted because Miles played 10 games for the Grizz remember? Now if our cap space had Mile's contract deduction; we would have had some significant cap space to land a top tier talent. Before that; we've only dabbled with 7-8 mil free. And in all reality; Andre Miller was a good pick-up if you ask me.

 

http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/i...tum_says_there_is_a_great_chance_he_will.html


Hmmm "great chance"

 

Not for two years of being so scared to make moves to preserve the imaginary cap space. Its like building through the draft...extremely overrated

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Sounds like Batum isn't being forced to play anywhere. Looks like he wants to play in Portland. Another spit in the eye for Haynes and Khan

 

OKC looked like they did well building through the draft. Also, if our pick was Durant instead of Oden; we would be in a much better place right now. Also, Roy and Aldridge were very good lotto picks.

 

Awesome. This would be the one time I'd be okay with a Blazer blowing out his knee.

Olshey to Minne: "Ya know, we kicked the tires, and at the end of the day, we decided you can have him."

 

Why in the hell would they not give him his physical today before the deadline to match?

 

Hahahahahaha!

 

Maybe if KP could have gotten over his infatuation with his stable of drafted players and been willing to make an unbalanced trade (without just offering garbage and expirings or cap room) then that cap space might have been a useful asset, but instead KP convinced himself that he could sell Portland to Hedo. When that failed he just started flailing trying to make a splash (chasing David Lee, etc.) and got (somewhat) lucky when Andre Miller practically begged him to sign him.

With Olshey, he knew this FA crop wasn't great and loaded with a lot of RFAs, so he went hard after the one guy he thought could be a difference maker and when that didn't work he got the best SF free agent on the market for a slight overpay. I get the feeling Olshey understands that trades are going to be the way forward, and having some cap room next summer might help facilitate a winning play.

 

Okc tanked 4-5 years in a row to make seattle relatively apathetic to their move. Sure, if you can land 3 top 5 picks then it's not bad I guess. But then you are in franchise and league historically bad territory.

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Okay, so if we aren't too concerned about cap space; the Batum signing isn't a big deal to you right? Since we shouldn't be concerned with saving money; we don't have to worry about a couple extra million right?

 

The infatuation was also with preserving the cap space for two years. No real target, no plan, was relatively useless. Damn you tom penn, cap genius.

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This thread has me feeling like this!

 

Komic-Kahn! Brilliant!

I think he has empty cap space between the ears.

 

If you really want to pass that off as the reason that Howard Schultz sold the team to a consortium of OKC oil men and then they subsequently moved the team, you don't really get it.

That team was on the move if they had sucked or not and was a done deal before the ink on the bill of sale had dried.

 

Did anyone see Adelman watching Williams last night in Vegas?

He looked downright depressed.*