If we miss out on Bosh, I'd rather sign Deng (11M) and Gasol (9M) or Deng (11M) Pierce (5M) Carter (4M) than to match Parsons's ridiculous contract.
How would that be a massive black whole? Tucker is a very good 3 and D player, Hamilton and Garcia are solid backups.
I think Hamilton and Garcia both showed this season, and especially post season is that they are in no way shape or form "solid backups" Your scenario would have pj tucker playing 40 minutes a game I'll pass on that
I would not. I believe Parsons is a $9-11 million/year player. I love his game and skillset, but I can't justify overpaying him by $4-5 million or so. He has fantastic skills as a shooter and playmaker, but those are replaceable, IMO, and can likely be found at a more reasonable cost.
This whole Parsons offer has the ball finally rolling. Bosh now has a decision to make REGARDLESS of what Lebron decides.....take the sure max Houston offers or risk playing for whomever at whatever contract he is offered. He can't wait much longer...decide or the offer goes away. My gut feeling is....he accepts and goes to Houston grudgingly knowing he can't risk it. Morey matches Cuban's offer (at the VERY last minute just to screw Cuban and Dallas over as much as possible). Dallas misses out on several key targets. Ironically, Cuban might be the guy who made it all happen for Houston. I hope so...we'd owe Mark a solid!!!
If we match and give Bosh the max we might not even be able to pay PAtBev. How would DH feel about that?
Need a Bimathug explanation on what matching parson's contract would do to our flexibility over the next 3 years (other than that it would be very, very bad). If we lock Parsons down as the last member of our "Big 3" then for the rest of the Howard/Harden window, we are basically going to trot out the same line up that got bounced from the 1st round last year (minus Asik and probably Lin) and pray that something different happens.
Let me show you how much we can't do it: 21.4 - Howard 20.4 - Bosh 14.7 - Harden 14.7 - Parsons That's $71.2 million. No MLE or BAE if we use cap room. Most we could use is the room exception (2.7 over 2 years). If we do a SnT, then we are hard-capped at 80.8 million, and the MLE is useless anyway because we'd only have $9.6 million to fill 8 roster spots. You have to let him walk, and hope you can coordinate a SnT with Miami for Bosh. Before executing the trade, you use your cap room to sign Papanikolaou, Llull, Daniels and PJ Tucker. Beverley / Llull Harden / Daniels Tucker / Papanikolaou Bosh / TJones Howard / DMo
With players demanding so much money, they need to raise the cap. Making it tough to keep even rotation players.
In my mind there is only one hope of resigning him: Lebron goes to Cleveland... and market for Bosh makes a less than max deal doable. Unlikely, but 88 million for a declining 31-34 year old is pretty steep.
