It does matter since they lost the two players.... They don't have any way to spend more money on the cap right now except for the tax MLE.
I don't wonder. They're cheap. They're also not entirely out of their mind to think putting that many resources in a center is a bad idea. Well, guess you shouldn't have drafted a center with the #1 pick then, huh? If the Blazers have a chance at getting Ayton for only Nurk and Hart, you take it and run. He's a massive upgrade with potential to get much better at his age.
Value means different things to different people. A team with no guards would be willing to pay more money for a guard. A team with tons of guards.... you would think.... would pay less money for a guard. In the case of GP2, we lack defense, so we overpaid for a quality defender. It's all about value. There's value around the league and there's value to individual teams. Those don't always align. A guy like Dame or CJ or now Ant, are worth more to Portland than they might be to other teams because we can't get star free agents. So we overpay to keep our guys because we know we can't go out and replace them.
if im not wrong, zach lavine is the first klutch client to sign in free agency nurks deal could be coming very soon...
a bunch of Klutch clients signed since the evening yesterday: LaVine, Lonnie Walker, Troy Brown Jr., Juan Toscano-Anderson
You're right--Advanced stats show that Robinson was significantly better than Nurk last year. Better TS%, WS, BPM, Ortg, Drtg, VORP...it wasn't even close.
I question yours all of the time and I think most in here do plus we don't even question your impartiality.
I mean he is UFA, he can sign with any Team he wants, if they want him, but i doubt that's gonna happen, i dont think many teams are interested in him, that should tell you something. He should accept a Blazers offer around 65-70M because that's what he's worth is
This team never learns... We replaced CJ with Ant. We replaced Norm with GP2. I just don't understand how you can look at our results from the past 10 years and then go right back out and make the same mistakes..... and yet.... the FIRST damn thing I said when I heard that we were bringing on Cronin was that I didn't want the stink of Olshey still on the team. Welp.... here we are. The team still wreaks of spray tan and Appletinis.
GP2 is nothing like Powell though. And there's plenty of differences between CJ and Ant to give that a look.
Basically the vast majority of sports have gone to an analytics approach. Facts do matter. It's not to take away from some things Nurk does well, but the whole "Nurk is worth the max" thing is where credibility gets lost for people.