Not the "renouncing" thing again...

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  1. Rastapopoulos

    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    I will be pissed off if this is necessary:

     
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    Hedo doesn't deserve more than 10 mil a year, this contract better not have increases in it if it does start at 10 mil. We will see if KP knows how to sign players to reasonable contracts soon.
     
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    Hasnt he proven that with trav, blake, joel and martell?
     
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    Freeland will never play here anyway, and Koponen... well, he's got some skills but nothing to fuss over IMO.
     
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    How dare they renounce players we know nothing about and will never see in order to get a guy who just played in the Finals and will clearly make us better???
     
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    Sorry I meant Unrestricted Free Agent signings, he has done a great job with our players who don't deserve more then MLE.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    If the cost of landing Hedo is releasing a player who will never sniff an NBA rotation in Koponen (under athletic) and a guy who would at best play backup power forward for us in 3 or 4 years, then I think that's a price I'm willing to pay.
     
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    Against whom is Portland bidding? How many teams can give him a deal that's a million past the MLE? Detroit can't. Memphis can't.

    Why does Portland need to go to $10m to start?

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    The answer (as shown in the other thread :) ) is one. OKC. Two if Toronto dumps half of it's free agents.
     
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    Not a chance we renounce the rights to Freeland. Koponen, not so sure about.

    Freeland will probably start for the Great Britain squad this summer.

     
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    yeah i don't get it.
     
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    If we are in "WIN NOW" mode, then who cares if we renounce a couple Euros that wont even come over for 3 or 4 years? I say do it!
     
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    Good point. But I believe we (with Paul's $$) can still be in win now mode and still keep this guys for the future.
     
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    Why not light a million dollars in cash, too? Or buy a thousand dead cats and airlift them to the Artic and drop them on the packed snow?

    I think we should do things that we HAVE to do, whether it's "WIN NOW" mode (which I still hope we're not REALLY in... our team is too young) or not.

    Signing Hedo for 40% more than any other team would offer seems like a bad business decision and it has a good chance of catching up to us down the line. If we renounced what might be valuable assets down the line, too? That's just stupid IMO.

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    Because that is essentially his market value. We are not the only players in this, and if you are trying to woo someone, a lowball offer is usually not a good idea.

    That's my take.
     
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    To beat a dead horse...the last time we had FA room we overpaid a guy by bidding against ourselves. Mr. Miles is still on our cap. The last game he played for us was April of 2006.
     
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    Oh gosh that would be awesome!
     
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  18. Draco

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    Wasn't he a restricted free agent?

    That summer was brutal.
     
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    I think we should. But I have to tell you, the market for dead cats is pretty hot, and I can only let you have them for $10,000 apiece if you give me a commitment right now. And you'll need to buy a full lot of 2500, I can't do partial orders.

    barfo
     
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  20. Erroneous Subterfuge

    Erroneous Subterfuge meh

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    Out of curiousity, what hasn't he done well at so far? That's a serious question. I genuinely want to know so that I can start criticizing his decisions before they even happen, and become overly pessimistic about hypothetical scenarios that could happen five years down the line. I feel left out.
     
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