What the Camby Signing Means for Next Year & Oden

[BLAZER PROPHET]

It's a perfect three man rotation.

Start LA and Oden.
Pull one of the two near the end the 1st quarter and insert Camby.
Then pull the other one a quarter of the way through the 2nd and insert the first guy.

Completely interchangeable lineups with LA-GO, LA-MC, and MC-GO. Easily the best defensive front line in the NBA if healthy.

How sweet will that be!!

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Oden is up for an extension this summer, right?

I really hope he doesn't have the audacity to seek a max extension.

This is something I thought about. We're signing Camby for about $10 mil + some incentives. Where does that place the value of Oden? And was this contract structured with the idea of insinuating to Oden, "look, you're good, but not as good as Camby at age 36 so we'll resign you at less (around $8 mil per year)".

Now, I doubt that, but Vulcan works in strange ways.

 

[TripTango]

This is something I thought about. We're signing Camby for about $10 mil + some incentives. Where does that place the value of Oden? And was this contract structured with the idea of insinuating to Oden, "look, you're good, but not as good as Camby at age 36 so we'll resign you at less (around $8 mil per year)".

Now, I doubt that, but Vulcan works in strange ways.

No way will he expect a max extension this summer, unless he's got some evil agent whispering nonsense into his ear.

 

[rocketeer]

This is something I thought about. We're signing Camby for about $10 mil + some incentives. Where does that place the value of Oden? And was this contract structured with the idea of insinuating to Oden, "look, you're good, but not as good as Camby at age 36 so we'll resign you at less (around $8 mil per year)".

Now, I doubt that, but Vulcan works in strange ways.

but oden is better than camby(at any point in camby's career), so that wouldn't really send that message.

 

[WillG]

Love the Camby resigning.
What a pleasant surprise, and a real boon to have a defensive player of the year mentoring Oden for the next couple of seasons.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

No way will he expect a max extension this summer, unless he's got some evil agent whispering nonsense into his ear.

He may not expect one, but that may not prevent him from going after one. Let me put it this way. He was a #1 pick and I think it's safe to say that if we don't offer him a deal worth $10 mil per season, he'll sign a qualifying offer and become a free agent after next season. If he has a remotely good year, teams will line up to give him a max deal. And because Vulcan diss'd him the year before, we won't be in the mix. Or, he becomes a restricted free agent and a team like OKC offers him $12 mil for 4 years. Do we match?

I'm not saying it will happen, but it's a very easy scenario.

 

[Sug]

He may not expect one, but that may not prevent him from going after one. Let me put it this way. He was a #1 pick and I think it's safe to say that if we don't offer him a deal worth $10 mil per season, he'll sign a qualifying offer and become a free agent after next season. If he has a remotely good year, teams will line up to give him a max deal. And because Vulcan diss'd him the year before, we won't be in the mix. Or, he becomes a restricted free agent and a team like OKC offers him $12 mil for 4 years. Do we match?

I'm not saying it will happen, but it's a very easy scenario.

They will let it go to restricted FA and see what happens. If someone makes an offer, they will match.

 

[TripTango]

He may not expect one, but that may not prevent him from going after one. Let me put it this way. He was a #1 pick and I think it's safe to say that if we don't offer him a deal worth $10 mil per season, he'll sign a qualifying offer and become a free agent after next season. If he has a remotely good year, teams will line up to give him a max deal. And because Vulcan diss'd him the year before, we won't be in the mix. Or, he becomes a restricted free agent and a team like OKC offers him $12 mil for 4 years. Do we match?

I'm not saying it will happen, but it's a very easy scenario.

It is certainly realistic. And if he plays well enough (and long enough) to justify it, I think Paul would have no problem cracking open his checkbook for that and more after next season. I just don't see him (or the Vulcans) overpaying for Greg until he can show that he is physically capable of surviving a season relatively intact.

 

[oldmangrouch]

It is certainly realistic. And if he plays well enough (and long enough) to justify it, I think Paul would have no problem cracking open his checkbook for that and more after next season. I just don't see him (or the Vulcans) overpaying for Greg until he can show that he is physically capable of surviving a season relatively intact.

I hope you're right.

Overpaying for Oden would be a terrible decision....but if he leaves, it will be terrible PR. The Oden/Bowie comparisons will never go away.

It really is a can't win scenario for the Blazers.

 

[TripTango]

I hope you're right.

Overpaying for Oden would be a terrible decision....but if he leaves, it will be terrible PR. The Oden/Bowie comparisons will never go away.

It really is a can't win scenario for the Blazers.

If he doesn't play well or gets another major injury next season, it is indeed a "can't win" scenario. However, if he is even moderately successful and (just as importantly) healthy on the court, I wouldn't mind giving him a fat contract in the slightest.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I hope you're right.

Overpaying for Oden would be a terrible decision....but if he leaves, it will be terrible PR. The Oden/Bowie comparisons will never go away.

It really is a can't win scenario for the Blazers.

It's can't win, if he doesn't perform this coming year or doesn't stay healthy, if he performs then he's a restricted free agent and the Blazers can match any contract offer -- presumably teams are going to be a little leery of committing big time money to him with his injury history.

I fully expect him to make somewhere close to Bynum level money when it's all said and done and that is in the neighborhood of LMA's deal.

 

[Draco]

Andre Miller.

Hope JPEC works out as well.

Of course, with JPEC, it'll have to be a trade since Portland can't use it to get under the cap like they could with RLEC. Which KP knows (and hopefully Warkentien understands too, when he takes over).

Miller was signed with cap room. It didn't matter if we had Raef's insurance paid contract or we had kept Theo Ratliff's contract that ended the prior off-season, either way the team was in a position to sign Miller.

Out of the recent 5 large expiring Blazer contracts I listed, none of them were traded for value. Raef, Nick Van Exel, Shareef, Damon, and Sabonis all had large contracts that expired on the Blazers payroll. During every one of those years fans have been speculating that the team would be be in a position to use them to acquire talent. It has never happened.

Is it possible Pryzbilla's contract will be different? Sure, but I'm not going to expect a lopsided trade to happen. I'm not going to expect the team to add payroll when they just signed Camby to ~$25 million extension, have a possible Oden extension, and have a Batum extension kicking in the following off-season. I'll expect Pryzbilla to finish next season a Blazer and the team to keep the savings just as they've done 5 times before.

 

[BlazerBenner]

It means we're Title contenders for the next 10 years (unless Kevin Pritchard is gone in the next 3 years and doesn't get a chance to continue the A+ job he's done since he's been here).