Meyers Leonard...Highest Paid Blazer Big Ever?

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riverman said:
Mark Cuban will overpay Meyers...Dirk is getting old...he might offer Wes money or Parsons money and let Parsons walk.
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If we strike out on all the bigs we seem to be after, I wonder if they would take a swing at Parson's?
 
Resign him for $11M and trick Atlanta into thinking he's great so they give us Millsap.
 
Mediocre Man said:
So Pizza guy, working for another team, tells me something. I say it here. Is that "baseless" speculation? I don' think so? Is it true? Who the hell knows, but what I repeated in here, that he said isn't baseless.

Me saying I am going to have sex with Anna Kendrick tonight is baseless because I don't know her, I am 50 and I am happily married.
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So you have a thing for Anna Kendrick.... interesting.
 
This back and forth between the cap rising and player contracts is idiotic...it's like with our economy, minumwage rises, so does inflation, it doesn't work, it puts us tight back in the hole we just started climbing out of....there needs to be a period where there is a cap on inflation, so people can adjust accordingly...just like teams paying way to much for players just because the cap ceiling has been raised...
 
Chris Craig said:
This back and forth between the cap rising and player contracts is idiotic...it's like with our economy, minumwage rises, so does inflation, it doesn't work, it puts us tight back in the hole we just started climbing out of....there needs to be a period where there is a cap on inflation, so people can adjust accordingly...just like teams paying way to much for players just because the cap ceiling has been raised...
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We have had 20 years to adjust. Shaq got $121 million back in 1996. Garnett got $126 million in 2000. The owners were able to slow the rapidly rising contracts, but it's time things caught up.
 
Mediocre Man said:
So Pizza guy, working for another team, tells me something. I say it here. Is that "baseless" speculation? I don' think so? Is it true? Who the hell knows, but what I repeated in here, that he said isn't baseless.

Me saying I am going to have sex with Anna Kendrick tonight is baseless because I don't know her, I am 50 and I am happily married.
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If you are happily married why do you want to have sex with Anna Kendrick?
 
Chris Craig said:
This back and forth between the cap rising and player contracts is idiotic...it's like with our economy, minumwage rises, so does inflation, it doesn't work, it puts us tight back in the hole we just started climbing out of....there needs to be a period where there is a cap on inflation, so people can adjust accordingly...just like teams paying way to much for players just because the cap ceiling has been raised...
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Sports are a part of the entertainment industry and have pretty much no connection to the real world of us working schmucks except for how much we spend for tickets. Top actors in Hollywood films make $20M to $30M per film. The NBA owners aren't hurting and neither are studio executives. My only concern with the cap is that the Blazers not get themselves hamstrung with bad contracts for guys who don't produce results.
 
e_blazer said:
Sports are a part of the entertainment industry and have pretty much no connection to the real world of us working schmucks except for how much we spend for tickets. Top actors in Hollywood films make $20M to $30M per film.
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Does every city have to build a $500 million movie theater? No, so there's no analogy to the NBA.
 
jlprk said:
Does every city have to build a $500 million movie theater? No, so there's no analogy to the NBA.
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I know that probably makes sense in your interestingly-wired mind, but you'll have to explain to me what the cost of the venue has to do with the fact that people are parting with entertainment dollars to go to a movie or to go to a game.
 
Don't care for Meyers honestly. Done with him to be honest. Yeah he can stretch the floor and shoot, that's about it. Let him walk
 
This whole idea is ridiculous. Meyers has never even been able to solidify his spot in the rotation, let alone has he earned a massive contract. And it's not like he's sitting behind a lot of all-star calibur players.
 
What is Leonard's ceiling? Channing frye? Spencer hawes? There's a few stretch big men who specialize in threes and they're all niche role players, but they're not stars. I'm just not optimistic.
 
I'm not the biggest Meyers fan, but he does seem to get under opposing center skin on defense. I count that as a slight positive in the re-sign column.

Still, I never see him as more than the first big off the bench. Avoid a big contract on him like the plague.
 
craigehlo said:
I'm not the biggest Meyers fan, but he does seem to get under opposing center skin on defense. I count that as a slight positive in the re-sign column.

Still, I never see him as more than the first big off the bench. Avoid a big contract on him like the plague.
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Tyler Hansbrough can do that for pennies
 
Natebishop3 said:
What is Leonard's ceiling? Channing frye? Spencer hawes? There's a few stretch big men who specialize in threes and they're all niche role players, but they're not stars. I'm just not optimistic.
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None of those guys can rebound like Myers does. Also, Myers one-on-one post defense has grown leaps and bounds. You aren't budging that guy down low. You can only out craft him, and there's not too many of those types of bigs in the league right now.
 
I'm interested in how people feel about signing a 24-y/o Joel Przybilla in 2004, or re-upping for 5 years and ~ 13% of the cap in 2006...
(Meyers is 24)
 
BrianFromWA said:
I'm interested in how people feel about signing a 24-y/o Joel Przybilla in 2004, or re-upping for 5 years and ~ 13% of the cap in 2006...
(Meyers is 24)
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One was a workman-like, blue collar guy who rebounded, blocked shots, and served as a bit of an enforcer. The other guy is a fucking goofball who likes to shoot threes.
 
you wanna go back and look at their first 4 years in the league? Don't confuse what we paid for with what Przy became. They are (up to this point in their careers) similar rebounders, with Meyers better on the D end and Przy on the O end. Przy was a blocking beast, but also had less-than-zero offensive game, and was injured/DNP'd more.

http://www.basketball-reference.com...eoname01&y2=2004&p2=przybjo01&p3=&p4=&p5=&p6=

Now, you can definitely say that you don't project that type of improvement from Leonard. I'd ask why it's so far out of the realm of possibility. EDIT: I didn't get to follow much last year, but has anyone questioned Leonard's work ethic or inability to improve? Serious question--maybe they have and I missed it.

And while we're at it, Enes Kanter got maxed by our GM last year.
 
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