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BBert said:
Ignorant question incoming:

There is so much talk about different exceptions, and how they can cause a team to be hard capped. And I don't have a good handle on how much the Blazers can spend, if anything, without using that tool. So what I want to know is could Zeller be signed without hard capping the team?
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Yeah, he's either a vet min or more likely we used the taxpayer MLE... neither of those would hard cap us.
 
DDolla said:
Can someone explain how the Heat can overpays Robinson, Lowry, Butler and maybe Bam and we can’t even sign a top FA
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Oh yeah... it's South Beach and Pat Riley is handling the negotiations.
 


First thing Fischer got incorrect. I'm listening to him right now and even he is surprised.
 
I was dredging through the stats on Zeller, hoping to find something encouraging. Pretty blah, definitely doesn't shoot threes or block shots. Only encouraging thing was 11.7 rebounds per 36 and an ORtg last year of 123.
 
Neil, look at the Heat. Money is nothing as they want to win now
 
DDolla said:
Why do we need to save money? Need to spend now as Dame is not getting any younger.
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Like, we need to spend big money, which we don't have, so I sincerely hope we aren't overpaying scrubs or getting hard capped.

:cheers:
 
UKRAINEFAN said:
I was dredging through the stats on Zeller, hoping to find something encouraging. Pretty blah, definitely doesn't shoot threes or block shots. Only encouraging thing was 11.7 rebounds per 36 and an ORtg last year of 123.
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So you're saying it wasn't cut loose Zach for Zeller, more like cut loose Kanter for Zeller.

I hope.
 
DDolla said:
Neil, look at the Heat. Money is nothing as they want to win now
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Yeah but they had to lay the groundwork to spend so much. They had contracts they could move and cap space. They had a lot of avenues to work through. Neil is playing checkers and Riley's playing chess.
 
It's possible that Neil's strategy is to wait things out. Some clubs may not have got the free agent guard they wanted today and may now up the ante in a deal for CJ. He doesn't have the full MLE so has to wait until all the full MLE's are used by other clubs and then the guys left are more likely to sign for the tax mle with Portland.
 
Buffalo Custard said:
How is it that every team in the farkin' league can find money to sign the players they want - except the Blazers? We are at the very bottom of the league for cap management.

And just to be clear - Olshey is the perpetrator here, NOT the victim!
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Cuz guys don’t want to come here
 
I don't know who is the salary cap expert that works with the Blazers, but they need to be fired since they can't seem to see beyond the next year.
 
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