better than Kevin Ollie
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whoa I didnât even pay attention to that part. w t f
time for Isaiah to get to work on telling him the wonders of some of our NIL collectives
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Highest paid coach in the NBA for the worst team in the NBA
Someone made a good point to me that coaching salary is basically marginal, though. 12 or 8 million is a drop in the bucket compared to the team salary. If you can pay $4 million for an extra two wins, why not?
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No cap for coaches but crazy committing resources like tot hat to an nba coach, my hot take is nba coaches really donât matter that much. Thereâs a reason dudes can role in with no coaching experience and succeed.
Considering Spoelstra has dog walked his coaching Counter parts I canât say I agree
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And the coachâs salary doesnât impact the cap. Itâs just down to the owner agreeing to the money. When youâre a billionaire trying to boost your ego by having your nba franchise not be the worst, why not spend a few extra million to get Monty instead of Ollie.
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The Full Monty!
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Exactly. Thatâs what I mean by just being marginal. Itâs just money, might as well over spend on things that create advantages.
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I mean itâs not our money
Monty is a pretty good coach, better than Ollie
Iâd concentrate on that before the money
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Also means the Pistons have to go free agent shopping. Might package that #5 lotto pick as trade bait. Ticket prices will be going up, too. When next seasonâs goal is Play-In level or Bust, how manyđ° it takes is irrelevant.
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They donât matter until they do
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Kinda wondering what we could get for Bojan and 5.
The teams that want Bojan wonât be trading good players.
You pay a coach of that caliber that kind of money so you can be patient. Donât Stan Van Gundy your way into the playoffs right away just so you can top out as an 8th seed.
Get some solid picks at 5 and 31.
And some Monty approved role players that can play defense and shoot to surround the youngins.
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He basically got an 8 year deal with the 2 option years. He has all of the job security in the world, so I donât think this impacts the Pistons being patient at all.
I think it probably tops out around 3 first round picks, none of which would be as good as 5 in this yearâs draft. But a couple of those picks could be used in a trade later. I just donât think youâre getting anything other than future assets for Bojan.
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This is correct. The teams who will want him are the ones competing right now. That also means they probably are over the cap so they canât give up a $5M rookie with potential and take on Bojanâs $20M salary. Any trade for Bojan is going to be structured where Detroit gets a future pick, maybe some young asset with untapped potential, and some filler contract of a player the trading team doesnât see valuable to them.
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Yeah, the return on Bojan is going to be draft capital basically, which is why I think they should see if they can get a pick in this yearâs draft. Iâm not sure if the Lakers have a pick next year (probably not?) but if they did, the Pistons should see if they can deal him for that 17 pick this year and something else (obviously getting an onerous contract in return) - the Lakers would kill for him.