Allen Crabbe signs offer sheet with Nets

8:59 pm according to Quick so who knows?

 

With 20M a year for Ezeli he was 3 times too high. So maybe it's 2.59?

No I think this time it's right.

 

Thanks. But that could just be Quick's bedtime. Might have a strict mother.

 

I forgot about the kicker.

That's a good point in your first sentence. I wonder if that 2nd sentence was necessary after you had made your point?

 

I voted match, but I am starting to change my mind. I have read Crabbe won't be happy if he isn't starting. That's not very likely here.

 

I think Crabbe must have hired Batum's agent...he'll get matched and say he never wanted to leave in the first place. Stotts starts him for a dozen games and puts him back on the bench mob once he's forgotten about the Nets

 

This is an incredibly difficult decision here, and I do not envy Neo for having to be the one to make it. At the onset, I felt that we had to match on Crabbe because we don't want to lose an asset like that. The more I think about it, it is a huge price tag for Crabbe and the thing I worry most about is that trade kicker. I have yet to see or hear what the ramifications of that kicker are. Does anyone know (other than Blazers and Nets brass of course)? I think the severity of the kicker will be the deciding factor in whether or not we match.

 

If Dame, Stotts, CJ, Olshey and Allen want Crabbe badly you'd think they'd be flying to meet him and talk him into tearing up the contract and staying with the good guys like the Clips did with DeAndre Jordan

 

It's not up to crabbe whether he stays or not.

 

Crabe signed the offer sheet, Deandres initial decision was verbal, it os totally in Portlands hands whether to match or not - that is it

 

If traded his contract counts as 83 Mil to another team instead of 75.

 

Jordan was an unrestricted free agent, so he had to be convinced to renege. Crabbe is restricted so, whether he wants to leave or not, Portland can match the offer and keep him. No persuasion necessary.

 

So the question then becomes, is Crabbe unmovable at 83 mil? Or would it behoove us to keep him at that number and possibly use him as a trade asset down the road?

 

I would say YES considering the SG is the weakest position in the league right now and his contract is about the new norm for your mid tier player.

 

No brainer? 80% of our cap space would be going to CJ, Dame, Turner and Crabbe. If you give your starters 75% of the cap, that leaves 25% to the bench, and Crabbe would be taking up 17% of that by himself.

 

It is NOT the new norm, it cannot be mathematically. It's only skewed that high because teams have so much money to spend this offseason.

 

With Meyers extended, don't match. Instead I hope Neil looks to trade some combo of Davis/Plumlee/Vonleh/CLE 1st for one of the following:

Kyle Korver
Avery Bradley
Marco Belinelli
Doug McDermott
Ben McLemore

 

If we keep Crabbe, we'll be a couple mil below the luxury tax, next year so adding anyone with a substantial countract will put us over.

 

Korver fell off significantly last year. I made the mistake of trading for him in my fantasy team.

 

He still shot .398 from downtown and it was a down year for him, he only makes like 6mil a season, could be worth it. Only downside he is a one year guy.