Are Plumlee and Leonard the only guys who got paid in 2016 to get a multi-yr deal in 2020? That cap spike did more harm than good for the players
Plumlee wasn’t a free agent in 2016. And I wouldn’t really even consider Leonard’s contract a multi year deal. It’s only one on paper.
https://apple.news/APaftTo1UQxCcLu3UeOFoig Now THIS is interesting....... Edit; Okay, okay.....should have dug a little farther in the thread.....
CJ got a big extension in 2016 but signed another in 2019 Olshey was the biggest idiot GM in 2016, but he had plenty of company in the idiot GM room
It boggled my mind how many Blazers fans initially supported the signings. Especially Meyers and Turner, we knew those were terrible deals at the time. Crabbe supposedly had 3D upside and same with Harkless so while bad they at least had a gambling chance of maybe being ok one day if players improved. Meyers was proven to have physical limitations and Turner was old coming off a couple million dollar deal as a sometimes useful reserve with nobody offering him anything close... those were so stupid....
what’s funnier is that Turner wasn’t even Olsheys main target, it was Chandler Parsons. This was probably the first offseason where I actually liked, or at least wasn’t pissed, at all of Olsheys moves.
I remember olshey, Stotts and Lillard were at parsons place as soon as free agency opened. I think they might’ve pivoted to Whiteside second.
Meyers was not a bad contract. He only looked bad as part of the over-spending spree. Most people thought it would cost more than $10M/yr to keep him after the breakout season. He was good value at the time. The problem was his stagnation after Kim Hughes was shown the door. Meyers is still getting paid that much despite no bigger of a role (and the growth potential label removed) and tightened purse strings around the league -- by a finanncially sound franchise -- so it can't have been an over-pay back then. Crabbe and Turner were bad contracts by any measure, at the time or in hindsight. Harkless was pretty good value, just a bit frustrating in his inconsistency.
Disagree on Meyers, he didn't have the foot speed to defend well at the NBA level, an inside game, nor the ability to get enough shots off for his offense to be a large positive. We saw 5 years of it at that point but Neil wanted to give him a contract to validate his own drafting mistake (similar to Toronto with Andre Bargnani and many other teams over the years) Miami gave Dion Waiters and Whiteside big contracts too they aren't perfect. You make a good point on Crabbe, but at least there was another team offering the deal. Turner was coming off a couple million salary and had nobody interested around that crazy $70 million price... its as if they just took the failed Parsons contract offer and inserted Turners name.
Its crazy to think that we signed Turner for $70 million and it was a better contract than the 1st choice....
