Fuck tanking! Blazers @ Sonics 03/18/2012 - Game Thread!

Apparently he wants $9 million per year as a starting point, which is ridiculous. Swing guys are much easier to come by, I wouldn't spend that much on him. He isn't a huge building block for us. Wilson chandler got 5 years at 37 million, he shouldn't get higher than that.

 

Chandler got 5/37?

More than 8 for Nic is really pushing it then. I fear the Blazers will overpay to keep him.

The highest I'd go and be comfortable with is 5/40.

 

Batum will probably go down as another player the Blazers will have wished they had traded while their stock was high. He's nothing but an average player, he definitely does not deserve 10 mil a year.

Seems that every free agent who isn't a scrub thinks they deserve 10 million a year.

 

He did try to get it going after a timeout with about 5 minutes left in the third quarter; I'm hoping some coach did what I want to do many times; grab him by the shirt and shake him and say "C'mon, be a man out there!" Unfortunately he is a guy that needs to be constantly encouraged and constantly demanded to do more.

 

The way Crawford was playing in the first half, I was thinking Nik is right that it's better we kept him; he'll help us get in the lottery. His idea of good distribution is to pass to Przbilla 15 feet from the basket with two seconds on the clock. Talking about the lottery; is our attempt to play a zone a subtle way of throwing games? I think the zone is OK sometimes but you gotta have some guys who know how to play it!
By the way, i was really disappointed that nobody laid some lumber on that cheap shot punk Collison before the end of the game. hell, I would have gone after him even if i had to pretend to crash into on the bench!

 

Yeh, the kid is kind of growing on me too; now if they would just play him 30 minutes a night.

 

Because he can at least dunk; i'll never understand why Camby couldn't dunk.

 

No, for Parker, 4 years younger. All we had to do was be willing to swallow that Jefferson contract.

 

Nate and his fat, out of shape ass! Of course if he was a real leader he wouldn't have let Nate disrail him. (Andre Miller would be a good example of how to handle a Nate)

 

Smith looks ALOT less hesitant now that he has a little longer leash with Canales.

 

Exactly. Miller handled that perfectly. Nate and Andre didn't clash because Andre can't handle a disciplinarian. He played college ball for Majerus one of the most demanding coaches in college basketball for years. He got into it with Nate cause he realized Nate didn't know what the fuck he was doing. The team got better because of it.

 

We can't give 5 year deals anymore according to the new cba. So it's like 4/32?

 

Yes you can give five year deals to your own guys.

 

The team went from 54 wins prior to Miller, with Steve Blanky as PG, to 50 wins, and then to 48 wins.

How that is "better", only you seem to know.

 

Only you seem not to know.

Getting personal at 8 am, eh? Good coffee. You'll be even crankier by midnight.

 

I thought they took a year off. So the old CBA teams that owned their player's bird rights can offer a 5 year deal and other teams could only offer 4. Now it's 4 years for teams that own their players bird rights and other teams can only offer 3.

 

The team won fewer games, but was somehow "better". Uh huh...

Pointing this out is getting 'personal' only to thin-skinned posters.

 

Explain to me wilson chandler signing a five year deal yesterday then.

 

He said the team got better between the early season and late season because of the midseason adjustment which Miller forced upon McMillan, i.e. letting Miller play in a non-Blake style. So you answered with irrelevant season-to-season comparisons.

 

Oh my mistake.... They took a year off, so I thought the previous was only 5 year max deals. It used to be 6 years. You are right, I'm wrong.

So previous the contracts were 6 years if you are re-signing with your team, 5 years if another team signs you.

Now it's 5 years if you sign with your team, 4 years if someone else signs you.