Jason Quick is an idiot

[Blaze01]

It was cathartic....

 

[KingSpeed]

There's no such thing as ZERO chance of winning the title if you make the playoffs. We should continue to retool our roster as we continue to win. Rebuilding through the draft almost never works. Trades and free agency is how you get it done. You're forgetting how much great young talent we still have. Aldridge, Johnson, Batum, Matthews. And we STILL have Oden. AND Roy who may not be who we was but could still be great. We can't tank with those guys. They're too good. The last team that tanked to get a once in a generation player was Cleveland. They now have no LeBron nor any titles to show for the time he was there.q

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

He will be a Restricted free agent. So other teams will be making him offers at this time, potentially. Making him that qualifying offer gives us the opportunity to match any offer he may receive. If we don't make the QO, he is unrestricted.

It was this from Dave at Blazer's Edge that confused me:
"With his market value at an all-time low, Oden and his agent would certainly accept the one-year, $8.8 million deal, especially since there's no guarantee he'll even be playing ball at the start of next season. Worse yet, a potential lockout looms over next year so there's no guarantee anybody will be playing. The upshot is that Portland could well pay Oden $8.8 million to do little or nothing only to watch him waltz into unrestricted free agency afterwards. The only way around this is offering him a longer-term and more expensive deal instead of the qualifying offer...an even more unpalatable prospect at this point. The Blazers are stuck between the Scylla of paying Oden a fortune for an uncertain future and the Charybdis of letting him go with the only path between costing them $9 million in possibly-lost money then bidding against the entire league for his services with no guarantee he'll stay."

 

[Blazer_Hippie]

I don't think we will know enough after a year to make a better decision so i would not shell out 9 million dollars.

Exactly. So assume we give him $9 mil, he finally gets into shape sometime in training camp, takes a couple/few months to get back in the flow and start playing decent (like last year) and plays well and even miraculously avoids a serious injury for the year...imagine all of that best case scenario stuff happens...are you ready to sign him to a big dollar, long-term deal at that point or are you going to let him walk?

 

[Targus]

Oden will recover? Really? So, you're saying history never repeats itself?

If I disagree with someones opinion, even strongly, I'm thankful to be mature enough to not call them an idiot. Wow.

I say dump Oden. Move on. Rebuild around Batum and Matthews. Seal up this dreadful chapter with a welding bond and move forward.

 

[STOMP]

while fans fret over their hopes and fears regarding the big picture of their rooting interest, players generally just play taking things one day at a time. I really don't think guys worry too much about injured players as thats an everyday aspect a part of their profession. People die every day in driving accidents but I still commute to work with a clear head.

It makes sense that management would examine the angles and keep their options open especially with a player with a big upside. With Batum at the extension crossroads next offseason and several other large contracts on the books, the Blazers aren't dipping below the Cap where an extra 9M off the books means anything useful. Obviously this isn't the desired situation, but I'm for management deciding on the proper course to take regarding the QO depending on how GO's doing physically and mentally a few months from now... there is no need to rush to judgement today

STOMP

 

[oldmangrouch]

while fans fret over their hopes and fears regarding their rooting interest, players generally just play taking things one day at a time. I really don't think guys worry too much about injured players as thats an everyday aspect a part of their profession. People die every day in driving accidents but I still commute to work with a clear head.

It makes sense that management would examine the angles and keep their options open especially with a player with a big upside. With Batum at the extension crossroads next offseason and several other large contracts on the books, the Blazers aren't dipping below the Cap where an extra 9M off the books means anything useful. Obviously this isn't the desired situation, but I'm for management deciding on the proper course to take regarding the QO depending on how GO's doing physically and mentally a few months from now... there is no need to rush to judgement today

STOMP

Serious question: once the QO is extended, doesn't that mean he is no longer an expiring contract? Doesn't that destroy what minimal trade value he might still have?

 

[Minstrel]

Serious question: once the QO is extended, doesn't that mean he is no longer an expiring contract? Doesn't that destroy what minimal trade value he might still have?

They don't have to extend him the QO until after the season. So they can leave him an expiring contract until the trade deadline at least. Once they extend him the QO, if he signs it, he'll be on a one year deal and again be an expiring contract for the next season.

Of course, if he gets a multi-year deal from another team and if the Blazers match, he stops being an expiring contract.

 

[oldmangrouch]

They don't have to extend him the QO until after the season. So they can leave him an expiring contract until the trade deadline at least.

Thanks. That makes more sense.