06-28-2022, 09:34 PM
(06-28-2022, 09:29 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I agree, but AGAIN, this is fine, IF:
1) you don't make it seem publicly like you're willing to spend, getting everyone's hopes up.
2) you don't continue to make the same mistakes you did for the first decade without being willing to spend your way out of them.
I'm sure I'm looking at all of this in the most negative possible light today. Letting one of only two good players you've drafted over the past decade walk out of the door over money after you've developed him into a near all star tends to have that effect on me. And, I'm sure I'll be ready to get positive again before the season starts, but OMFG they are asking a lot of us as fans right now, imho.
Contracts are much shorter these days than they were back then. Only mega deals like Wall or Westbrook's contracts are really albatrosses these days. Even if we paid him 30 million a year, there is no doubt in my mind that we would still be able trade him if needed with the cap going up in the next few years. Plus it's not like Jalen is Evan Eschmeyer or Tariq Abdul Wahad, getting paid big bucks to be injured and never play. It wouldn't be the same as the early years.