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07-02-2019, 01:55 PM | #2641 | |
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It could be Wiggins but he's at least young and his max was cheaper than Paul's. $40 million/season for that dinosaur is just awful but it's the kind of thing desperate teams will do when they think they see a path to success in front of them.
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07-02-2019, 02:00 PM | #2642 |
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Imagine if you didn't have to guard him at the 3 point line - and he still shot it anyway and made 28% of threes.
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07-02-2019, 02:00 PM | #2643 | |
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If you can't even shoot a free throw, then your stroke is so busted that nothing short of tearing it down and starting over will make you an effective shooter. Jason Kidd is the best example of it. Much like Lonzo and Simmons, he couldn't even shoot free throws and when you watched him on the court, you just knew whatever he put up wasn't going in. Then he hit his 30s, started having some injuries, started slowing down, and tore his jumper apart. He started over from the ground up and completely reinvented himself as a shooter. The guy he was over the last 9 years or so of his career was far different than the player he came in as. But it wasn't just an organic development of his existing game. He recognized that he was going to have to become a different player so he did. Without that recognition, age would've just made him worse.
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07-02-2019, 02:03 PM | #2644 | |
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Back to the original point of "don't draft someone to be a professional when they can't do the basic shit fundamentally well". A team drafted and plans to play a QB in the NFL that can't accurately throw a football but can run. Who knows. |
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07-02-2019, 02:06 PM | #2645 | |
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So you just go to the gym with a shooting coach and you start with your base and work from there. 10,000 shots/day until it's something that your muscles start doing without prompting. Otherwise you'll fall into bad habits the moment you end up in competition. And ideally you do it in a season where expectations are pretty low the following year (and not coming off a playoff run). That gives you a full 4 months or so to really get at it. Moreover, it means the inevitable fatigue that will come from not getting as much rest as you'd like to have gotten in the offseason doesn't sabotage a playoff run. No, there's absolutely nothing easy or ideal about it. But it's the only way that Simmons can be a truly excellent player, IMO. He absolutely has to present a credible threat from outside 14 feet. You almost don't even have to guard him past the free throw line.
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07-02-2019, 02:11 PM | #2647 |
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Can't wait for the in season tournament they are going to have. Been urging the NBA for a long time to do something like this.
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07-02-2019, 02:12 PM | #2649 | |
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The salary cap in the NBA is also a joke. It was supposed to stop superteams from happening and it seems like it has done the opposite. |
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07-02-2019, 02:16 PM | #2650 |
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I think the idea was so that big market teams just couldn't buy players - but turns out if had the opposite effect.
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07-02-2019, 02:24 PM | #2651 | |
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My mind is blown that is way to much math for me In all seriousness I don't see him doing a 5 year deal in Toronto. I could definitely see him do a 1+1 so he could defend the title and if that fails go wherever next year. Probably could do a sign and trade at that point like KD did and get his max contract. |
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07-02-2019, 02:26 PM | #2652 | |
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D'angelo Russell will be a free agent eligible for a 4 year max deal entering his age 27 season having already earned $140 million. Let's just say that he continues to be an all-star level player for the next 4 years; not a superstar but this kind of guy with some marginal improvement. He'll get another 5 year max deal from someone (presumably by sign and trade if needed) and it will be a 30% max instead of the 25%. And then lets say he plays well during that period - he'll hit the market at 32 - a year younger than CP3 was when he hit the market. And someone is ALWAYS stupid in the NBA so he may well be able to get ANOTHER max deal, this time a 35% max. Now I'm not going to say any of this is likely, but it isn't exactly impossible either. If those things happen, D'Angelo Russell will bank lifetime earnings exceeding $700 million. Even if he can't get 2 of those 5 year maxes and 'settles' for a 2nd 4 year max taking him into FA at 31 w/ another 4 year max taking him through his age 34 season, the dude would end up near $570 in lifetime earnings through age 34. And that's what happens when true superstars like Davis and Kawhi and Lebron have their earning potential suppressed by a max contract. It has to go somewhere and it's always going up, so guys like D'Angelo Russell have an outside shot to one day hold the record for most lifetime NBA earnings.
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07-02-2019, 02:28 PM | #2653 | |
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I could be wrong but it is for teams to be able to try to keep their players by giving them the only chance to sign players to a certain level of money and also go over the cap. |
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But it would be DAMN tough sledding to get him to the Lakers. I guess LAL could give Kuzma an extension and make him the centerpiece of the trade going back. Then maybe take on some contracts here and there to balance out the rest. Dunno - that one starts to get a little above my head.
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Hasn't worked that way because now these guys can make the same amount just about anywhere (though for a year less guaranteed) so they simply go where they have friends or they can win a title or they like the city or whatever. With money evened out, teams like OKC and the 'Wolves are still fighting uphill, just for different reasons. I also figure it had something to do with owners just trying to protect themselves from themselves. The best example and maybe the straw that broke the backs was Michael Jordan making literally his teams ENTIRE salary cap. And then some. Dude was making $33 million in an era where the cap was like $27 million. And Pippen was making about 1/6th of that. And no, I have no idea how the hell Jordan managed to get the Bulls to pay him that. Obviously nobody else in the league could have approached it so I guess his leverage would've been 'pay me or I'll retire...again'. But I'm betting a lot of money that whole sage put a serious scare into the owners so they tied max salary to cap percentage and then the minimum spending to revenue (and thus cap) and away we went.
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