And It Begins....Pelicans About to Talk to Tyreke Evans
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Don't fool yourself into thinking Evans would have taken a discount to stay in Sacramento. That's all empty bluster from the Evans camp. If the Kings came out with a lower offer before he even met with NO, Evans still would have shopped around and his agent/camp would have spun some "he was hurt by the offer" narrative. You could have come out of the gate with an offer like NO's, but he's a RFA. There is no reason to bid against yourself.
Only caveat in all of this is if our FO believe McCallum will be a player to build around. Playing Evans at PG means you need to find a facilitator SF. If Evans is out, the guard lineup becomes traditional. Do you pay 11 million plus in the hopes that it finally all clicks for Tyreke? Glad i'm not in our FO.
Normally I might agree with you, but Salmons was god awful last year, and I see no reason to believe he'll be better this coming season. Personally, I want him gone. I had the pleasure of grading Salmons more than any other player, and I got tired of seeing 36 minutes, 2 pts, 2 assists, and 1 rebound. I don't care how good he was defensively, those numbers stink!
wow, i'm gone for a few hours, and things go berzerk. i can't believe the surprise i'm seeing from segments of kf.com. do some of you actually watch what occurs at the level of transaction in the contemporary nba? it's the home of the overpaid, and it flies in the face of history to assume that a new CBA is going to protect the owners from themselves, especially in a league with a soft salary cap that increases every season...
that said, it has never been about what tyreke evans may or may not "actually" be worth. it has always been about his market value, and a great many kings fans have vastly underestimated 'reke's value on the open market. people write things like "well let's just see what the market dictates," as if the kings might have been able to sneak by with the qualifying offer, or as if a slightly-increased offer of $8-9 million would get the job done. and that's just a bad joke. it's a fantasy. always has been. there's more than a dozen contracts already out there to prove it, and those were handed out to players with less natural talent and lower ceilings than tyreke...
if you're a small market team too foolish to extend the contracts of your talented young players before they become free agents, restricted or otherwise, then it's on you when you're forced to pay above market value to keep them, or when you bleed talent in allowing them to walk via free agency. of course, you can't blame the current regime for the maloofs' blunder in not entering into extension talks with tyreke last season, but i sure as **** will blame the current regime if they don't match 4/$44 million (provided 'reke signs the offer sheet)...
here's the facts, kings fans: if the kings don't overpay tyreke evans, they'll be forced to overpay somebody else. i'd rather it be a 23-year-old guard with a high ceiling and an elite rim attack than a player who is considerably less talented that i snagged for a few million less per season. the wins aren't coming if the checkbook isn't opened. it's that simple. you overpay for a player with tyreke's production, and you carefully manage the contracts of your lesser talents...
that said, it has never been about what tyreke evans may or may not "actually" be worth. it has always been about his market value, and a great many kings fans have vastly underestimated 'reke's value on the open market. people write things like "well let's just see what the market dictates," as if the kings might have been able to sneak by with the qualifying offer, or as if a slightly-increased offer of $8-9 million would get the job done. and that's just a bad joke. it's a fantasy. always has been. there's more than a dozen contracts already out there to prove it, and those were handed out to players with less natural talent and lower ceilings than tyreke...
if you're a small market team too foolish to extend the contracts of your talented young players before they become free agents, restricted or otherwise, then it's on you when you're forced to pay above market value to keep them, or when you bleed talent in allowing them to walk via free agency. of course, you can't blame the current regime for the maloofs' blunder in not entering into extension talks with tyreke last season, but i sure as **** will blame the current regime if they don't match 4/$44 million (provided 'reke signs the offer sheet)...
here's the facts, kings fans: if the kings don't overpay tyreke evans, they'll be forced to overpay somebody else. i'd rather it be a 23-year-old guard with a high ceiling and an elite rim attack than a player who is considerably less talented that i snagged for a few million less per season. the wins aren't coming if the checkbook isn't opened. it's that simple. you overpay for a player with tyreke's production, and you carefully manage the contracts of your lesser talents...
If the shoe fits, wear it:
It's hot - at least in California - and we're in the middle of a very unusual occurrence. We actually have an RFA that other teams are interested in. We can debate/discuss without taking things personally. Remember, you're arguing with an Internet persona. There's no reason to resort to insults or snide comments on one hand, or to take offense on the other.
Let's all just take a nice long cleansing breath and relax. It's only July 1. If you don't pace yourselves, you'll be dead by Independence Day.
It's hot - at least in California - and we're in the middle of a very unusual occurrence. We actually have an RFA that other teams are interested in. We can debate/discuss without taking things personally. Remember, you're arguing with an Internet persona. There's no reason to resort to insults or snide comments on one hand, or to take offense on the other.
Let's all just take a nice long cleansing breath and relax. It's only July 1. If you don't pace yourselves, you'll be dead by Independence Day.
It's simple. If the idea is a Reke/MLM/Cuz trio or a Vasquez/MLM/Cu trio, I'd rather have cap space/MLM/Cuz. Vasquez is a decent PG but not good enough to be a replacement ans bringing him in would jsut limit our flexibility to actually add a quality third wheel to the MLM/Cuz duo. That third wheel needs to be able to break down defenses and penetrate since that's the option we currently have with the ability to match on Reke.
If someone takes that personally, oh well. It's a forum driven by opinions.
If someone takes that personally, oh well. It's a forum driven by opinions.
The new reigme couldn't do much besides offer Tyreke a qualifying offer. What is fantasy however is expecting Tyreke to take a hometown discount because his original team showed him some love by being the first to offer a contract. That's the counter-argument to letting the market dictate Tyreke's value.
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