The Official I Still Believe In Brandon Roy Thread!

Wait, what?

 

Even if Roy accepts his backup role and loses the attitude, develops a better mid ragne shooting game, the problem is his max level salary....

I just don't see any other option for POR BUT to use amnesty on him....

You have big contracts coming up with Oden, Batum and now Felton....and POR next year will have the 3rd highest payroll in the NBA....

If they keep Roy, then likely they will have to say goodbye to 1 or 2 of those three players, especially if there is some form of hard cap (then it could get really ugly)...or pay a MASSIVE luxury tax bill, and for what? a team that will struggle to get out the 1st round and advance no further?

 

While I see where you're coming from Gramps, I honestly feel like I need to see a full season of Roy, to determine what and what not we can "trust" him to provide. He played a shortened season last year, and missed time in the playoffs the year before after the knee surgeries. We haven't seen a healthy Brandon (whatever his 100% is going to be) in a long time. I've pretty much relugated myself to the idea he's not ever going to be the same Brandon I remember, but I still hold out hope that he can be a very productive player in a shorter amount of minutes each night. Instead of the 23-5-5 we were used to, maybe 14-3-3? Don't know, not sure, but he's still a young guy and has plenty of time to re-invent himself as a key clog to the Blazers machine. It just may be he becomes 6 man of the year canidate every year instead of All-Star.