TH0MAS CR0WN:
With or without Lamar, we are STILL the team to beat, you glum "the sky is falling" bastards
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-without him our road to winning it all is tougher, but not unattainable
-WITH him though, it almost isn't fair for the rest of the league
for the record I do want him back, but at a legitimate price
kthxbye
All of this.
Legitimate is 9 million, but not 10?
Legitimate is 8 million, but not 9?
This is what we are arguing about. If LO asked for 2 years 153 million, I'd be right in line with you guys. He's not.
He's asking that instead of going from 14 million to 8 million, to go from 14 million to 9 mil. Or 10 mil.
Or instead of taking the less money for 3 years, to take it for 4 years.
And he went to the bench in his contract year, and did it well enough to help us win a title. And now we're asking him to take a pay cut for his efforts. Based on bench production, rather then the numbers he coulda put up as a starter instead.
But that 1-2 million dollars means more to us, then an easier path to the championship? Ok.
I can only speak for myself, but you have to understand where I'm coming from. I work in a military camp style of environment, and when myteammate and I tell the kids that the kitchen needs to be spotless by 11:30am or we're canceling the outing we had planned, and we walk in at 11:31 and acouple kids are putting the microwave back where it goes and putting the last loaves of bread in the cupboard, we're canceling the outing. We said 11:30,not 11:31.
I know not everything is black and white, but when you set a parameter that people know you don't really mean, once they know that the actual enforcementof your parameter will be 'parameter + 1 minute or dollar or whatever', you open yourself up to be taken advantage of (word to Bynum and Walton andSasha).
