Originally Posted by
23ska909red02
CP1708:
23ska909red02:
Oh, I also forgot to say that $10mil a year for Lamar is too much for my comfort. The $9mil we offered him is the highest I'm comfortable with.
Why the extra 1 mil bother you?
Just in principle. There are plenty of times where there have been shoes that I've wanted that I was willing to pay x amount for, and I'd seen them for sale at places for just barely over what I as willing to pay... and I've never, EVER bought them. If the absolute HIGHEST I'm willing to go is X and I see the for X + $50, I'm o.k. with passing them up, knowing that if I change my mind tomorrow and try to get them, they might not be available because someone else grabbed them.
And that's really based on market value. For me, Lamar is not a $_ _ per year (double digits per year) player. I didn't really like hearing that we had offered him $9mil a year, but I thought 'Alright. That's it, though. We can't go higher than that.' So thinking that we did is discomforting to me.
Like people have mentioned, we grossly overpaid for Walton and Sasha (and I would personally add Bynum to that as well), and I want that trend to be something that is reversed, not something that stands as a precedent. Given the options 'We pay players more than we're comfortable with; that's what we do' or 'We overpaid a few players in recent history, but we're putting a stop to that as we move forward,' I would hope we're going with the latter.
I get what you sayin, but 1 mil?
Look at it this way. We a top 2-3 team with Lamar? Yes.
We a top 2-3 team without Lamar? No.
So if it came down to 1 mil a year, you'd be ok with lettin him walk?
I'm not down with that. If LO asked for an extra 6-7-8 mil, sure, fly a kite, but for one mil, that's nothing. Mamba is correct with the Pau, andKobe extension coming, and the 1 mil could become essentialy 3-4 times that when the cap drops again next year, but we can't worry about that. We have 3-4years to stack chips. After that, this core fades off, and we start anew with maybe Bynum and Farmar (no longer Ariza
) as the conerstones.
For these 3-4 years, spend every dollar it takes. After that, we can switch up our gameplan.
One other thing, Mamba, while right about the one mil, Fish is off the books after this year, so that money basically comes back, we either give the role toBrown/Farmar, or sign Fish to a smaller contract at his extended age. Either way, that mil can come back to us. If it gets LO, make it happen ya know?
