c-troop wrote:
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10M x 4 is the MLE. I suspect they give most of that to Birch and save a couple million to sign their 2nd round draft picks. I suspect Birch or Noel would cost the same, can't afford both.
Extremely low usage scorers are a big problem for an offence. Defences can ignore them - which makes those extra shots your shooters "get" very difficult shots. Hence Noel's very poor offensive impact stats. It's not about force feeding extra possessions to Birch vs Noel. It's about defences having to guard him. We saw what happens when you don't have to guard a centre like Aron Baynes. No thanks to repeating that experience. Never mind that Birch had a ~60% TS% in Toronto, and has historically throughout his career had similar shooting numbers, his cold start in Orlando last season notwithstanding.
It is never the right move to try to collect a bunch of MLE sized contracts if you are able to chase better players. Those mid level salaries are usually the most overpaid and least useful in trade contracts because there is always a big market for that price point with basically the whole league able to bid every role player on the market up to the MLE.
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