He's going to have a lot of time on his hands. Where can we send the Walton, Moses Malone, Wes Unseld, Robert Parrish, etc. DVDs for his viewing pleasure?
I don't understand how so many fans here expect him to be paid $10+ mil per year. Thats totally ridiculous. He hasn't proven to be a backup. He's injured. Even when healthy he has major defensive and offensive limitations. If he is offered anything close to that number let him walk. Maybe he thought he'd get $10+ mil per season before this year happened but he had a horrible season. If I'm a team I only pay that much money to a player with starter upside or a proven quality backup and Meyers is neither.
You don't develop an NBA post game in one summer in you're mid 20's. Just as Ed Davis won't become a 3 point shooter in one summer either. It's something that takes a lot longer than that to refine.
Ed Davis last season at age 26 got 3 years, 20 mil. God, what a fucking steal that deal was. Serious props to NO for locking Ed down. That might be fair price for Meyers. Maybe 4 for 30.
Time to let him go, if we sign another center to start, and make Plum the back up, we don't need to pay a third string center 10 plus million.
We have a glaring hole at starting PF which we know Meyers can't fill. Besides our two guards center is our best position with the Plumlee/Davis duo. We need a starting or backup SF who can create offense as a 3rd scorer when our guards get trapped or overworked. Those stud guards of ours will both be on max contracts a year from now using half our cap space. That leaves half the cap left for 3 starters and 5 backups. We need to use our cap space first for the most critical needs of our roster. Meyers doesn't fill any major holes this roster has.
the hardest thing to determine with the crazy cap increases is what the heck is a "good" or even "fair" contract these days. IMO Meters is not worth more than 5 mil a season but with so much money available and so many teams having a lot of cap he could easily get 10 mil per which would be a travesty IMO
i dont wish ill on anyone...... BUT im 100% not mad about this at all prolly should have taken that contract huh
This will be a fun thread to re-visit in July!! I stand by my prediction. I don't understand how many posters don't think that owners will use the additional cap space as a spending spree!!
Oh I think they will spend most of it. First there will be a bunch of max or near max guys; Ryan Anderson, Dwight, Barnes, Batum, Conley, Parsons, DeRozan, Drummond, Beal, LeBron, Durant, Horford, Evan Fournier, Jordan Clarkson are in that group. The next group is Kent Bazemore, Courtney Lee, Whiteside, Deron Williams, Pau Gasol, Dirk, Marvin Williams who all get $10-15 million+. Crabbe may be in that second group. Other free agents I'd rank ahead of Meyers; Terrence Jones, Dontas Montejunas, Eric Gordon, Jared Sullinger, Festus Ezeli, Ian Mahimi, Gerald Henderson, David Lee, Brandon Bass, Mirza Teletovic, Rajon Rondo, Boban Marjonovic, Bismack Biyombo, Terrence Ross, Jared Dudley, and the old Duncan, Ginobili. I might rank Mo Harkless ahead of Meyers, depends what happens the rest of the season. Harkless can't shoot but does everything else great. Meyers can shoot but does everything else wrong. Harkless is younger. I'd lean towards Harkless but wouldn't break the bank on either. Once you add up all those contracts teams cap space won't be as plentiful. Yeah there will still be money out there but teams won't waste it on players without starter upside or proven backup production. NBA teams also know they will have to pay their current contracted players much more when their contracts end and in two years the cap starts going down. NBA GM's and management are much smarter than a decade ago. Back then it was a bunch of car lot owners and family business. Now its teams of hedge fund owners with dozens of full time elite scouts and analytics personnel on staff. Yes we will see. I will be surprised if Meyers earns $10+ million. If he does I hope its from some other team.
Yeah his shooting can be an issue. I'm not sure of his attitude either. He seems disgruntled when he doesn't get playing time. Some of that is good as you want guys competing hard but it could instead be an indicator of a player with major future attitude problems. There were lots of not so nice rumors about him in Orlando too. Meyers has a great attitude. I'll trust Neil's judgement on that. I feel like we've seen so much of Meyers and its always been the two bad things for one good thing with him. Almost as many question marks as when we first saw him 4 years ago. We haven't seen as much from Harkless so he's more of an unknown which is intriguing.
