Meyers Leonard...Highest Paid Blazer Big Ever?

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    Sports are a part of the entertainment industry and have pretty much no connection to the real world of us working schmucks except for how much we spend for tickets. Top actors in Hollywood films make $20M to $30M per film. The NBA owners aren't hurting and neither are studio executives. My only concern with the cap is that the Blazers not get themselves hamstrung with bad contracts for guys who don't produce results.
     
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    Don't care for Meyers honestly. Done with him to be honest. Yeah he can stretch the floor and shoot, that's about it. Let him walk
     
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    This whole idea is ridiculous. Meyers has never even been able to solidify his spot in the rotation, let alone has he earned a massive contract. And it's not like he's sitting behind a lot of all-star calibur players.
     
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    What is Leonard's ceiling? Channing frye? Spencer hawes? There's a few stretch big men who specialize in threes and they're all niche role players, but they're not stars. I'm just not optimistic.
     
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    I'm not the biggest Meyers fan, but he does seem to get under opposing center skin on defense. I count that as a slight positive in the re-sign column.

    Still, I never see him as more than the first big off the bench. Avoid a big contract on him like the plague.
     
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    None of those guys can rebound like Myers does. Also, Myers one-on-one post defense has grown leaps and bounds. You aren't budging that guy down low. You can only out craft him, and there's not too many of those types of bigs in the league right now.
     
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    I'm interested in how people feel about signing a 24-y/o Joel Przybilla in 2004, or re-upping for 5 years and ~ 13% of the cap in 2006...
    (Meyers is 24)
     
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    One was a workman-like, blue collar guy who rebounded, blocked shots, and served as a bit of an enforcer. The other guy is a fucking goofball who likes to shoot threes.
     
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    you wanna go back and look at their first 4 years in the league? Don't confuse what we paid for with what Przy became. They are (up to this point in their careers) similar rebounders, with Meyers better on the D end and Przy on the O end. Przy was a blocking beast, but also had less-than-zero offensive game, and was injured/DNP'd more.

    http://www.basketball-reference.com...eoname01&y2=2004&p2=przybjo01&p3=&p4=&p5=&p6=

    Now, you can definitely say that you don't project that type of improvement from Leonard. I'd ask why it's so far out of the realm of possibility. EDIT: I didn't get to follow much last year, but has anyone questioned Leonard's work ethic or inability to improve? Serious question--maybe they have and I missed it.

    And while we're at it, Enes Kanter got maxed by our GM last year.
     
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