ShelC wrote:That's how teams get caught in bad contracts and handcuff themselves for the next 3 years. If you're a team with an owner that can pay, go for it. We're not one of those teams.
Yeah, yeah, I'm aware of the first part. But we also need to aknowledge that you need to win to be on the map. We sound as a darkhorse to LeBron, only because we won and played really well last season and came two games short of making the playoffs (I bet we'd sound even stronger if we had made them, tbw). Not being naive, they are in the race, and not many can say that.
And it doesn't need to be LeBron. If you don't get him you are in for the next tier, assuming you pay what it is worth. And it is
always going to sound like insanity to
us. We can discuss if Hayward belongs there, or any other free agent. The point is that in this cainistic environment you have to improve. Or you have to get worse.
Enough worse. As a fan I don't like it but I can tolerate it. But as a business? I believe it makes more sense trying to ride the wave, since we finally have created one. Because in the end everything comes with a risk. Suck too bad too long. Spend too much too soon. Pse. For once I agree with something CBA. At least today it is not 6-7 years, even 5-6.
Make 4 years plan. Suck. Gather assets. Find any worthy piece you can. Clean cap space. Consolide assets. Use cap space. Patch stuff after you are capped out. Don't go beyond X limit unless it is (insert degree of owner resistance against the L-tax). But never, absolutely ever under any circumstance, waste draft picks. Go as far as you can. And like you say, rinse, repeat.
We are in phase 4-5.
Fuck them. We are the Phoenix Suns. 'We rebirth
tm'. Go for it.
Riiiiiiiiiide the Dragooooooooooooon.
