As long as you have 2-3 of the best shooters in NBA history in your starting lineup, you can be an exception. But it is almost the exception that proves the rule.
In the case of the Pistons...they did it with defense..but they were the true contradiction of what success is supposed to look like in the NBA...they sure didn't have that many elite shooters.
Maybe they already know a team that's gonna offer him a decent contract? That's probably wishful thinking. I'm usually in favor of not stretching contracts, but in this case it could be the difference between still possibly using the RoCo TPE or being very limited the rest of the year.
i think we're just gonna punt that TPE. but this does make it less likely that we duck the tax. the thinking is contradictory in my mind. if you're gonna resign yourself to being a tax team, why not maximize your roster by using that TPE?
I could see Bledsoe taking a deal with a team with championship aspirations as a back up. He’ll probably get the last laugh.
Exactly. If they're not going to duck the tax, they might as well maximize the space they have between the tax line and the hard cap line. Maybe there's another move that makes things make sense, but so far just about every move outside the Grant trade has raised more questions than it has answered.
probably. but at least they have that option if no significant opportunity comes along. That extra 2.6M of Bledsoe's contract would have been an obstacle
More important to save tax than have tax room in two years to contend for a title. Maybe the team doesn't care about trying to contend with Dame. Just win enough to keep asses in the seats and money flowing in.
Oh, thank goodness!! I guess a few of you should sleep better tonight knowing this. Pretty hot non-issue at last weeks Introductory Press Conference.
You must be new here. The CBA, cap space maneuvering, draft pick warchest and on and on has always been incredibly important to the majority of us.
the full BAE is 4.1M so yeah, the Blazers could use it. But I don't believe they want to abandon the margin under the apron they just created by stretching Bledsoe, or make it much more difficult to get under the tax by the deadline. I think they'll keep their powder dry waiting for some golden opportunity. If none appears they may maneuver under the tax line in February but assuming they were looking at adding a player, I'm not sure any are available for the BAE that won't be available for the vet minimum. available centers: Dwight Howard Ed Davis Hassan Whiteside Tristan Thompson DeMarcus Cousins Greg Monroe available PF's: Danilo Gallinari Montrezl Harrell LaMarcus Aldridge Blake Griffin Carmelo Anthony Nemanja Bjelica Eric Paschall available SF's: Andre Iguodala Jake Layman Ben McLemore Rodney Hood CJ Elleby Elijah Hughes Yuta Watanabe Joe Wieskamp (that's a pathetic list of SF's. And has anybody's career collapsed from an Achilles injury like Rodney Hood's) available PG's (blazers only have 2 and they are both score-first PG's): Eric Bledsoe Dennis Schröder Avery Bradley Facundo Campazzo Rajon Rondo Austin Rivers Elfrid Payton D.J. Augustin Isaiah Thomas Mac McClung
casey posted an update from Cronin saying they are stretching Bledsoe. this makes it more likely that we duck the tax, so we probably won't bring anyone in.
