He still has that number one pick stigma but I didn’t look at him like that. For me it was a way to get rid of Nurk and getting Camara was a mega added bonus.
It's been average. They've had some good & some bad. Just running through the FA contracts that Cronin handed out: Dame was expensive, but had no choice. Grant contract was atrocious. Thybulle was reasonable. Nurk was a tad high. Simons was reasonable given the circumstances Payton was terrible, but he got out of it Little was a bit high, but he got out of it
reasonable takes, although I disagree on Simons based upon the market that season. Very few teams had over 15M in cap-space and the 2 or 3 that did had no need of guards. In terms of the market, Simons was overpaid. I understand a GM wants to keep players happy, but the market was saying Simons should have been happy with 16-19M/year rather than 25M I was speaking more about the total payroll vs wins. This season: that's the bottom half of the NBA in terms of payroll. 7 of those teams made it to the playoffs. 10 teams made it to at least the play-in. Portland was one of 5 teams that didn't, even though they were the only one of the five that didn't actively tank add that to the previous three seasons of deliberately tanking while having a payroll that barely dodged the tax (IIRC one season they were less than 200K below the line) looks like poor cap management to me. And it's hard to blame Olshey for the current cap. Obviously, Portland's cap isn't as poorly manged as Phoenix, but the Suns are setting a new standard this year for worst management
