There will be teams tripping over themselves to pay Nic 9 million a year to have him........ we better be willing to or we will lose him and Jamal Crawford will be our starting 3 next year...... oh ya he's leaving....... Luke Babbitt will be our starting 3 then.
I'd only be OK with $9M because there's still a chance (that's getting smaller by the day) that he might be more than just a role player. KP used his genius and wisely set up a similar contract for Aldridge and now Adridge is a bargain. Anymore than $9M probably wouldn't be worth it. $9M is a risk as it is.
What the hell is a "glue guy" anyway? A mediocre player who takes up space? Why pay 9 mil for a guy like that when you can get a similar player for much less, an Ime Udoka type. Save your money for players that are actual difference makers. Someone is almost always willing to over-pay for someone....so let them.
Id rather have a thabo sefolosha type at half the cost. Batum isnt worth 9 million. 6 to 7 ok. But 9 mil is funny.
I don't think it's his motor, but lack of any sort of ability to break his defender down that is holding him back.
Batum doesn't have the 1st step or ball handling prowess to be much of a penetrator. He's weak-sauce inside, so his game is pretty much jump shots. His defense is really over-rated as well. He's can stop penetration and block shots, but he loafs around, doesn't go after rebounds etc... He's a scrub.
I was more getting at the fact that guards pack his shot at the rim regularly is telling Still remember when Nic had a wide open basket against OKC for the win yet he was blocked by Westbrook. Soft.
Ok, so you think we should spend a 9 million dollar "glue guy". And your reasoning is that without Bobby Gross we wouldn't have won a championship? WTF?? LOL!! If he's the 2nd best player on the Blazers, that's just a sign of how badly we suck. If we give guys contracts based on your stategy, we may as well re-sign Felton to 9 mil, because he's the best PG we have, and resign Crawford to 9 mil, because if the Mavs didn't have Jason Terry, they wouldn't have won the title.
His defense definitely is overrated. He loses his man way too many times on defense for him to be to be looked at as some +defender.
Actually, I stated I thought it was too much considering how he's been playing. Exactly. As for the rest of your drunken rant.
Yes we are King. We just barely beat the BENCH UNIT of one of the worst teams in the league at home. The Blazers are abysmal.
