Q12543 wrote:khans2k5 wrote:Q12543 wrote:I guess regardless of the cap jump, $7M is still $7M. That isn't chump change. And since everyone else's spending power goes up too, it's all relative. Small details matter. I think it would be sloppy cap management to pick up his option, unless the front office is very confident in his ability to develop. All indications are Flip didn't like what he saw. If he did, Payne wouldn't be on the roster and the chatter of signing Bjelica wouldn't be happening. So if anything, Flip has validated the impatience exhibited by the fans you are so frustrated with (and my guess is that Cam leads the pack since he has been so vociferous in his animosity toward Bennett).
I do agree with the sentiment that we don't HAVE to do anything now. I'm just trying to present hypotheticals to SJM to see how he would respond.
7 million isn't chump change but you have to have a plan to use it or what's the point of freeing the space over seeing if it clicks with a good prospect? Especially when there is a high likelihood that time will be opening up at his position when KG retires. That's where the cap jump does come in. The 7 million isn't needed space as of now to do anything to make the team better. That will be there regardless if we keep Bennett or not. Money should be a nonfactor for turning down the option because Glenn has plenty of it and keeping Bennett is not restricting us in any way from improving the roster through free agency. There needs to be a higher purpose to dumping him than to just clear cap space and a roster spot because right now both are going to be there with or without Bennett.
I'm not sure what you mean that the $7M is there either way. If we decline his option, that's $7M more in firepower to use next offseason on a FA. Again, the cap is going up for
everybody. That means the market will achieve equilibrium. It's simple economics. So a FA that might cost $10M a year before, might have his price bid up to $13M per year because the overall market has more money to spend.
It's not just us that has more cap room to spend!
It's not that hard to understand. Everybody is getting 20+ million in cap space next year. Bennett's option is about 1.5 million more than this year. That means everyone has 20+ million and we have 18.5+ million (that's not even including the space Bud and KG will net us). You can sign almost anyone in the league for 18.5 million outside of max superstars so what's the difference between 18.5 million and 26 million if superstars are out of play to begin with? Our roster is still going to be mostly full with the PF spot really being the only position that needs significant help at this point. If we need to, I think we can find another PF for 18.5 million. We aren't going to be signing a bunch of guys using up all that space so there's going to be plenty to sign the one or two guys to fill out the roster. Hence his 7 million really isn't going to make a significant difference unless you are delusional enough to believe we could get a superstar to sign with us.
Take KG, Bud and Bennett off the roster, add a first round pick that we'll likely keep and that leaves two roster spots to fill out the roster that has most of it's core in place already. Ricky, Tyus, Lavine, Martin, Wiggins, Bazz, Payne, Bjelica, Towns, Pek, Dieng and the pick will all have contracts for next year and Robbie may still get a two year deal this summer. That's 13 already. We can sign two guys to fill out that roster for 18.5 million> and we shouldn't blow our load on free agency anyway because there's not a ton of open playing time on that team anyway. It's better to lose guys in free agency than overpay them and strap our cap situation in year 1 of the cap going up. Do you honestly think we would lose out on someone because we only have 18.5+ million to offer and other teams have 20+? That's the only reason to dump him because we'll have money to find a better player next year anyway. In your example, we have another 7 million on top of his 7 million to sign a better player. You're essentially arguing we should shoot for 26.5+ million in cap space instead of 18.5+ and I'm saying we can keep him and sign someone if we need to. I don't see his 7 million costing us the ability to sign a free agent which would be the only reason we need the extra cap space.
