With the NBA season in the rear view mirror, we now turn to a summer full of front office decision-making. As fans, we all have our feelings on what needs to be done to improve our Cavaliers team. Rock has laid the figurative cards on the table, but this is where we turn to you -- the readers of WFNY.
The premise is simple. Assume all players are restricted free agents and that they'll likely need at least a small raise from last year's salary. Do you re-sign? Or do you release? Of course, we'll leave LeBron James out of this scenario. And also, a little supporting argument always helps. Do Enjoy.
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Three guards up, three guards down. The Tribe has spoken regarding Delonte West, Daniel Gibson and Devin Brown. We're going to deviate from the "D's" a bit today and take on another guard in Sasha Pavlovic.
Last summer, we dealt with the back-and-forth negotiations with a guy who was a restricted free agent. Restricted! There was honestly a chance that he would have rather not played at all then to play for the salary at which he was being paid. Feel free to use the same logic of thinking as we decide whether or not to bring him back for yet another year. Also feel free to realize that we paid twice as much money last season for about 60 percent of the production.
2007-08 Salary: $4,250,000
2007-08 Statistics:
51 G; 23.3 Min; 7.4 Pts; 1.6 Ast; 2.5 Reb; 0.6 Stl; 36.2 FG%; 68.8 FT%
Unfortunately, the lengthy hold out that was quickly followed by a season of injuries and utter sub-par play may have left a bad taste in the mouths of most fans. Couple this with the fact that Sasha was completely worthless through most of the playoffs, allowing teams to leave him open to double-team LeBron obviously did not help his case.
What you have is a guy that flashes brilliance during some stages, but then fails to appear for games at a time. To me, I see a player that fails to do anything of impact on the court aside from the ocassional score. How many games did we see where Pavlovic would have, say, 14 points, one rebound and no assists? How does that help this team?
We desperately needed someone to hit open shots against the Celtics. Instead, Sasha went 4-for-14 in 55 minutes through games six and seven. He will be 25 year-old this November, so do you think there is room for growth?
However, I do not want to sway your opinion one way or another. Perhaps I'm missing the boat on this - so feel free to steer me in the right direction.
The premise is simple. Assume all players are restricted free agents and that they'll likely need at least a small raise from last year's salary. Do you re-sign? Or do you release? Of course, we'll leave LeBron James out of this scenario. And also, a little supporting argument always helps. Do Enjoy.
*****
Three guards up, three guards down. The Tribe has spoken regarding Delonte West, Daniel Gibson and Devin Brown. We're going to deviate from the "D's" a bit today and take on another guard in Sasha Pavlovic.
Last summer, we dealt with the back-and-forth negotiations with a guy who was a restricted free agent. Restricted! There was honestly a chance that he would have rather not played at all then to play for the salary at which he was being paid. Feel free to use the same logic of thinking as we decide whether or not to bring him back for yet another year. Also feel free to realize that we paid twice as much money last season for about 60 percent of the production.
2007-08 Salary: $4,250,000
2007-08 Statistics:
51 G; 23.3 Min; 7.4 Pts; 1.6 Ast; 2.5 Reb; 0.6 Stl; 36.2 FG%; 68.8 FT%
Unfortunately, the lengthy hold out that was quickly followed by a season of injuries and utter sub-par play may have left a bad taste in the mouths of most fans. Couple this with the fact that Sasha was completely worthless through most of the playoffs, allowing teams to leave him open to double-team LeBron obviously did not help his case.
What you have is a guy that flashes brilliance during some stages, but then fails to appear for games at a time. To me, I see a player that fails to do anything of impact on the court aside from the ocassional score. How many games did we see where Pavlovic would have, say, 14 points, one rebound and no assists? How does that help this team?
We desperately needed someone to hit open shots against the Celtics. Instead, Sasha went 4-for-14 in 55 minutes through games six and seven. He will be 25 year-old this November, so do you think there is room for growth?
However, I do not want to sway your opinion one way or another. Perhaps I'm missing the boat on this - so feel free to steer me in the right direction.
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