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TeamRicky - I agree. I think he can be replaced fairly easy.

10 million range is me projecting him to be more than he has been so far. I agree he may not be more than he has been and could be replaceable. I've said I had faith in him. Others don't see it. That's cool. I agree that if he is just a buckets getter and energy guy and especially if he isn't a good enough 3 point shooter we can replace him likely for cheaper and with a better fit. I just really want the guy to succeed and obviously I would like it to be for my favorite team. I assume his age and relative production will have some team give him a bunch of money and really that's fine considering the Wolves have 2 wing players in wiggins and Lavine that should be pretty high level players on this team for years to come. It's not like when we let go of Corey Brewer the first time because we were so loaded with young wings and then it turned out Brewer was sadly probably the most useful of all of them. I'll just enjoy Bazz while he is here it sure seems like he will look for a bigger role and more money. That's reasonable for him.

I'm curious about how they structure Dieng's deal. Aldrich's deal actually goes down every year and that was smart. The Wolves very likely to have more cap space and less worry about Lux tax earlier than later. I wouldn't be shocked if Dieng's deal starts over 17 million and goes down or at least is a flat 16 million per. I hope they start high and drop down. it seems so far Thibs and Laden have been pretty disciplined and savvy in how they have approached signing guys and doing the deals. Hopefully they keep up that trend.

monsterpile wrote:I'm curious about how they structure Dieng's deal. Aldrich's deal actually goes down every year and that was smart. The Wolves very likely to have more cap space and less worry about Lux tax earlier than later. I wouldn't be shocked if Dieng's deal starts over 17 million and goes down or at least is a flat 16 million per. I hope they start high and drop down. it seems so far Thibs and Laden have been pretty disciplined and savvy in how they have approached signing guys and doing the deals. Hopefully they keep up that trend.

I read where it goes up. But not a huge amount... and will still be only about 15% of the cap at the end.

monsterpile wrote:10 million range is me projecting him to be more than he has been so far. I agree he may not be more than he has been and could be replaceable. I've said I had faith in him. Others don't see it. That's cool. I agree that if he is just a buckets getter and energy guy and especially if he isn't a good enough 3 point shooter we can replace him likely for cheaper and with a better fit. I just really want the guy to succeed and obviously I would like it to be for my favorite team. I assume his age and relative production will have some team give him a bunch of money and really that's fine considering the Wolves have 2 wing players in wiggins and Lavine that should be pretty high level players on this team for years to come. It's not like when we let go of Corey Brewer the first time because we were so loaded with young wings and then it turned out Brewer was sadly probably the most useful of all of them. I'll just enjoy Bazz while he is here it sure seems like he will look for a bigger role and more money. That's reasonable for him.

Great take. I agree with pretty much every sentiment. I do generally think it's curious that people think scoring in bunches and high energy is easily replaced for a bench player. He's got some pretty unique NBA skills by my eyes. If he really has an upswing though we can always tender the QO and see how the market truly does value him.

https://soundcloud.com/wolves-radio

Bazz and Gorgui interviews on here about contracts. Gorgui is a great kid. Bazz is classy, the kid keeps impressing me.

thedoper wrote:https://soundcloud.com/wolves-radio

Bazz and Gorgui interviews on here about contracts. Gorgui is a great kid. Bazz is classy, the kid keeps impressing me.

Dieng is just fantastic I knew it was coming but listening to his answer to if he was buying diner on the road was gold.

Bazz said the right things and is confident in himself.

I also liked listening to Dunn's answer about his jump shot. Good stuff.

I'll just bump this to the top, love me some G!

Just readingsome tweets and what you guys posted here about him. Awesome dude and great player.