Owners asking for "Brandon Roy Rule"?

How about this amnesty possiby allowing the Blazers give a big contract to Oden. If he performs, then money well spent and we got him locked in. If he is still fighting injury, then we can write him off our cap.

 

If B-Roy can be our Jason Terry off the bench than he's worth it. I think he can, Seattle brotha's.

 

That is a massively huge difference. If the amensty affects cap room it's a no-brainer decision to use it and cut Roy. If it only affect luxury tax then I'm fine with whatever direction Paul Allen wants to do, I wouldn't blame him for taking the savings but if he wanted to spend the money to keep Roy on the roster as a bench player and there is no opportunity cost in the teams basketball talent that's fine too.

If the cap is more of a hard cap then I could see this type of amnesty appling for salary cap purposes. Many teams would be over the cap anyways so this clause would make hard cap provisions more feasible to implement. Much of the savings would not go toward new player contracts but just allowing teams to get under the cap and keep current players on the roster.

 

If LaMarcus and Wesley are the only significant contracts on the books we could give Oden a massive extension and still sign a near max free agent. Personally I don't project Roy as ever being more than a decent change of pace bench player so the flexibility of cutting his salary, while not a guarantee that we would acquire a stud player, gives the team much greater opportunities for improvement then keeping Roy on the roster. If you believe Roy can become an above average starter the outlook would be quite different.

 

I hope you are totally wrong. But... With Roy's condition, chances are you are more right that my homerism that he will come back and do well.

 

Couple thoughts on the Roy thing. Roy will never be able to grind a long season out again on those knees to the level of an allstar. Everybody needs to come to grips with that. Most importantly ROY!! We are paying him allstar money for essentially being a streaky 6th man at VERY BEST now. When BRoy is on the court LA's #'s plummet and so does the offensive movement. Let's not even talk about his defense because he doesn't play any, and every team knows he's got bumb knees and go right at his side of the court. I don't want to go back to the time where BRoy is walking the ball up the court, everyone is standing around waiting for him to let the shot clock expire, to only launch up a prayer shot or attempt to take the other team on 1 on 5 and then scream in hopes of drawing a foul. No thank you! The Roy rule should be allowed because Roy can't live up to his franchise tag. He's killing Portlands chances of getting another star and going very far in the playoffs. I'm sorry for Roy but these are the facts.

 

Hey I loved eating crow for that single quarter and hope for the best from Roy. From the day the trade deadline is over until the day the team is out of the playoffs I’m the biggest homer around because all I need to worry about is rooting for our guys to succeed, we can’t do any roster moves anyways. Afterwards I love contemplating what our team can do to improve and to do that I think you need to be fair and accurate with projections on players. If I get emotionally attached with our players I would never be in favor of any trade or transaction that shipped a guy off our team.

 

Yeah and that's my problem with Roy. I have seriously grown emotionally attached to Roy; which is probably skewing my reasoning behind it. I actually understand why so many would love to get rid of Roy because of his contract. I don't think it would have been such and issue if Roy was getting, let's say, 8 mil a season? And my homerism on Roy makes me feel like this contract was a "contract earned" type deal. I think until this season, Roy has done everything to deserve that type of "Max money".

 

If the amnesty truly counts off cap space; and not just "luxury tax" then it should be fine. I would much rather use it for either Roy or Oden and play it out for one more season. An insurance policy for either one. If Oden comes to the league in "Beast mode" and Roy is just a "role playing spot up shooter", then use it on Roy.

If Roy comes in and becomes a playmaking SG (something like 12 PPG, 6 rebounds and 6 assists) and Oden has another season ending injury; then use it on Oden.

If both bust out, then ask for Roy or Oden to take the insurance and use the amnesty for the other player.

Win win win...

 

I'm hoping he does. But that's just me!

 

If he is able to get 6 and 6 I'd be shocked to see him only average 12ppg.

12/4/4 might be a better hope.

 

...and we could then cut Arenas with our exception? Sounds interesting then.

 

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