Great point. For what we're paying him, Carmelo is the second best value if you use 'Cost per WS' as a metric. He's our best value if you look at 'Cost per Points' alone. Kanter is a damn good value also. I love watching him play. 100% hustle every night.
Our problem is defense, putting Vucevic in at center doesn't help this team contend. Maybe a Dame & Vucevic duo could be dangerous, but they would need a ton of defensive players up and down the rest of the roster. Instead we have guys such as Melo, Kanter, and CJ. It just wouldn't work.
I don't think your conclusion is right... I think by "not including the most recent season" they mean the season that ended a couple months ago.
pretty sure that's what I said: "because if the Blazers go over the tax next season, they'd be in repeater tax the following season" I was talking about the 22-23 season My thinking is that if Portland busts well over the tax line next season (go balls out), they'd probably still be over the following season. They won't be able to re-sign all of RoCo and Powell, and Nurkic and Jones, and whoever else, to 1 year contracts. And if they don't re-sign guys like that they won't be a good enough team to remotely justify busting the tax threshold.
“Jody doesn’t let the finances impact basketball decisions, no different than Paul,” Olshey said. “When I came here, I said I wanted to be with an organization where profit was a byproduct of winning, not the other way around. We have always had the resources and it’s never gotten in the way of making a transaction. "We are going for it.” We are going for Kwahi Leonard !!!
https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/j...s-raises-a-tired-question-whats-the-plan.html Suggested title: “The Fifth-Place Mind.” From Noah Vonleh to Meyers Leonard to Evan Turner to Caleb Swanigan to Kent Bazemore to Anthony Tolliver and a host of others. It’s been a parade of so-so solutions. The holes in the roster remain. Guessing and wishing doesn’t get it done. If we’ve learned anything in the last few years, it’s that making small, imperfect moves just doesn’t shift the trajectory of an organization.
Silly. Turner was a mistake, for sure. But, bringing up min salary guys is dumb. What's San Antonio's plan? Greg supposed to be awesome, but they've been treading water for a long time. Ditto for many other teams.
Turner, Crabbe, Meyers, Harkless, Aminu, Bazemore, Plumlee, DJJ, Roco, Ariza, Curry, Williams... there is a long list of non-minimum guys. I'm not sure what SAS plan is. Having 2-3 all-stars, including the best PF of all-time seemed like the ideal plan.
Maybe one of my trade targets was not available. This article claims Cavs tuned down offers of multiple late first round pi9cks for Larry Nance. https://www.cleveland.com/cavs/2021...avaliers-decision-to-reject-trade-offers.html
