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Is Batum there with McCollum? Oh, I forgot, Batum never spends his summers improving his skills. He's the same player as his rookie year.

This doesn't fit this thread, but I just read this article full of contract numbers about signing Aldridge, with this conclusion.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/oregonspo...aldridge-and-the-115-million-dollar-question/

What it does mean, is that perhaps he’s not the franchise cornerstone he’s expected to be. And if he’s not your cornerstone player, is he worth that much money? Is he still if I told you that unrestricted free agents Marc Gasol, DeAndre Jordan, and Kevin Love could be signed for less money? What if I told you that you could sign one of those players and still afford to pursue Paul Millsap, Omir Asik, Tyson Chandler, Danny Green, and Rodney Stuckey for quality starters and/or depth?...Can you see LaMarcus leading this team to the conference finals? To the NBA Finals? To the NBA Title?? Are you willing to bank on it? That’s the $115 million dollar question.
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jlprk said:
Is Batum there with McCollum? Oh, I forgot, Batum never spends his summers improving his skills. He's the same player as his rookie year.

This doesn't fit this thread, but I just read this article full of contract numbers about signing Aldridge, with this conclusion.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/oregonspo...aldridge-and-the-115-million-dollar-question/
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The Batum jab is golden but you're right, this has no business in this thread. BTW, this organization will spend whatever to keep LA (if he's willing) rather than take the money and divide it on lil less equal talent and depth.
 
It was a good numerical article and there was no Aldridge thread on the front page. So I stuck it into the thread that needed a little help.
 
Someday, somewhere when Rasta least expects it, I will send my men to call upon him to repay the favor. This debt will hang over him like a dark cloud until then, haunting and waking him when he hears a noise in his bed, until he realizes...that was the spaghetti.
 
OneLifeToLive said:
The Batum jab is golden but you're right, this has no business in this thread. BTW, this organization will spend whatever to keep LA (if he's willing) rather than take the money and divide it on lil less equal talent and depth.
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Gasol and DeAndre aren't available, Millsap will get the max like Aldridge. The author falsely assumes the team has the power to choose each and every of the best free agents.
 
Draco said:
Gasol and DeAndre aren't available, Millsap will get the max like Aldridge. The author falsely assumes the team has the power to choose each and every of the best free agents.
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He makes a lot of assumptions on players getting underpaid or rightly paid which is ridiculous when its a normal FA year but especially this year. You better believe agents are going to pull for bigger deals because of whats going to happen to the cap next year, there not stupid so unless its a 1 year deal I expext to see even more overpaying this year on long contracts.
 
According to Meyers, this is him when he "hasn't shaved in 2 weeks". Clearly all his hormones went into height.

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Those luscious, tasty babies are just made for tappin' the pine.
 
The author also makes this statement: "Is Aldridge a better player than Nowitzki and Gasol? Probably. Is he a better player than Bosh? Yes....."

Yet his conclusion is LMA is not worth the money and the smart move is to sign a couple of less talented players instead. This is an analytical way to look at it. This is money ball. But did the A's win the world series that year? Or since? You still have to have stars.

I agree LA is not worth all of that money. Few players are. But if we have the chance to re-sign him we do it, because IMO you go with the best players possible for your team. The gap between LA and the next tier may be close in terms of talent, but how much of a difference is there between that next tier of players and what you can get for the mid level exceptions. Not much. And they are a lot easier to find.

Right now LA is the best PF available to us, so we have to pay him. He alone will not bring us a championship, but he can help.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
The author also makes this statement: "Is Aldridge a better player than Nowitzki and Gasol? Probably. Is he a better player than Bosh? Yes....."

Yet his conclusion is LMA is not worth the money and the smart move is to sign a couple of less talented players instead. This is an analytical way to look at it. This is money ball. But did the A's win the world series that year? Or since? You still have to have stars.

I agree LA is not worth all of that money. Few players are. But if we have the chance to re-sign him we do it, because IMO you go with the best players possible for your team. The gap between LA and the next tier may be close in terms of talent, but how much of a difference is there between that next tier of players and what you can get for the mid level exceptions. Not much. And they are a lot easier to find.

Right now LA is the best PF available to us, so we have to pay him. He alone will not bring us a championship, but he can help.
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To build off your point, moneyball hasn't worked in baseball. The NBA is so much more star-driven then the MLB is, so how would it work here? Some people might point to the Hawks as an example otherwise, but even they have 3 stars that deserve a near max contract.
 
OneLifeToLive said:
The Batum jab is golden but you're right, this has no business in this thread. BTW, this organization will spend whatever to keep LA (if he's willing) rather than take the money and divide it on lil less equal talent and depth.
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It's posts like this that make it seem as if your really Neil Olshey.
 


T-Rob and Will certainly had their moments, didn't they? Why did we trade them again? Oh yeah, for the guy I'm hoping won't opt in.

Of course, while I'm bitching, I complained about the trade for T-Rob because it gave up KPap and Todorovic.
 
Now THAT'S impressive:



One favors the head butt, the other, the ball-punch.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Now THAT'S impressive:



One favors the head butt, the other, the ball-punch.
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My guess is that by the time he reached sixteen, Nicolas gave up trying to be the next Michel Platini.
Good thing too. I hate that Financial Fair Play prick.
 
hey guys, does anyone know if Lopez has spent his past few summers working on his game? or what his routine is?
 
He does a lot of stuff with his brother - does that count? One time they both worked out with Olajuwon...

 
Rastapopoulos said:
He does a lot of stuff with his brother - does that count? One time they both worked out with Olajuwon...

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sure does, you hear so much about a guy like Wes but I have heard little to nothing about Robin's routine - thanks
 
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