In the short term I was looking at 8th/9th seed which is a serious improvement, and is what I'm still looking for. However the DeMar deal handcuffs the future of this franchise. Paying $9M+ to a mediocre player is not the right way to build a club. There were guys just last year like Afflalo, Thornton and Young that got paid much less, who are all arguably better than DeMar.
I still don't understand why the "wait and see" approach couldn't work for Bryan. Guys like Jennings and Evans were not given extensions yet, and those guys are also arguably better than DeMar.
Not the right thread I guess for my rant.. but my expectations were to have long term flexibility to help get more talent to get us over the top (ie, perennial playoff contenders), but now I have to hope and pray that DeMar becomes a stud because as of right now he hasn't proven it to me anyway and we don't have as much flexibility as we did before.
The sad thing is that Lowry will need to be resigned to an extension and I'm not sure how he would feel coming back to the core we currently have otherwise we may have to offer him a max contract which would be ridiculous.
I still don't understand why the "wait and see" approach couldn't work for Bryan. Guys like Jennings and Evans were not given extensions yet, and those guys are also arguably better than DeMar.
Not the right thread I guess for my rant.. but my expectations were to have long term flexibility to help get more talent to get us over the top (ie, perennial playoff contenders), but now I have to hope and pray that DeMar becomes a stud because as of right now he hasn't proven it to me anyway and we don't have as much flexibility as we did before.
The sad thing is that Lowry will need to be resigned to an extension and I'm not sure how he would feel coming back to the core we currently have otherwise we may have to offer him a max contract which would be ridiculous.
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