Stop worrying so much about defense guys, if we score more then we'll win, it's simple math lol. But on a serious note, i will only play him alongside Plumlee or Davis. Playing him alongside Legend or Vonleh will be too soft.
Sorry if this was posted. Didn't read this whole thread... http://fansided.com/2015/07/05/nba-rumors-blazers-offer-sheet-enes-kanter/
It seems many basketball fans these days have a defense fetish. A guy like Deandre Jordan who sucks at offense and is good at defense....sure throw him the max, but when you flip it, many don't want a guy with "no defense". Also, if we get McDaniels, that will be another defensive specialist. We'd have an interesting mixture of players.
Yeah, at this point the team just needs a talent injection. They can worry about how it all fits later, that's why they get paid the big bucks.
Not that I want to agree too many times with you, but didn't we already get a bunch of defensive minded "no offense" players already?
In April Kaner put up 24/17 on 11-19 shooting against Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph in 34 minutes. He might suck defensively (haven't seen enough of him to really know), but you're getting a 23 year old center with a polished offensive game and iirc, strong as fuck in the paint. He's a load.
Aminu fits that catagory, but not sure if the Blazers will use him at SF or PF. They might see KJ as being redundant to Aminu...but KJ would just be one more young athletic scrapper. I think he's quicker on the perimeter and could guard guys like Westbrook.
Whose minutes does he take? We just shelled out good money for Davis and traded our first round pick for Plumlee. Does this mean we have already abandoned all hope of developing Leonard and Vonleh?
I'm totally on board with this, but Houston has said it will match. Maybe we can threaten to offer him a lot unless they give us back the rights to Todorovic?
If I understand this correctly, they are limited to MLE. If we offer even a dollar more, HOU would not be able to match.
They cannot match over anything that's over MLE. We can give him an offer over MLE with back end bonuses.
http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q45 Before 2005 it was sometimes possible to sign restricted free agents to offer sheets their original teams couldn't match. This happened when a player was an Early Bird or Non-Bird free agent (see question number 25) and the team didn't have enough cap room to match a sufficiently large offer. For example, Gilbert Arenas was Golden State's second round draft pick in 2001, and became an Early Bird free agent in 2003. Golden State could only match an offer sheet (or sign Arenas directly) for up to the amount of the Early Bird exception, which was about $4.9 million at the time. Washington signed Arenas to an offer sheet with a starting salary of about $8.5 million, which Golden State was powerless to match. This loophole was addressed starting with the 2005 CBA (although not closed completely -- see below). Teams are now limited in the salary they can offer in an offer sheet to a restricted free agent with one or two years in the league. The first-year salary in the offer sheet cannot be greater than the Non-Taxpayer Mid-Level exception (see question number 25). Limiting the first-year salary in this way enables the player's original team to match the offer sheet by using the Early Bird exception (if applicable -- see question number 25), or Non-Taxpayer Mid-Level exception (provided they have it and haven't used it already)1. The second-year salary in such an offer sheet is limited to the standard 4.5% raise. The third-year salary can jump considerably -- it is allowed to be as high as it would have been had the first-year salary not been limited by this rule to the Non-Taxpayer Mid-Level exception2. The salary in the fourth season may increase (or decrease) by up to 4.1% of the salary in the third season. The offer sheet can only contain the large jump in the third season if it provides the highest salary allowed in the first two seasons, it is fully guaranteed, and it contains no bonuses of any kind.
Gotta read further: "As I said above, the loophole was addressed with this rule, but not closed completely. The Gilbert Arenas provision is primarily intended to protect teams from losing their successful second round picks, who are typically Early Bird free agents after two years. There are several situations where a team still might be unable to match an offer sheet: If the player is a Non-Bird free agent, the team only has the Taxpayer Mid-Level exception, and the offer sheet is higher or for more years than allowed by the Taxpayer Mid-Level exception."
