The entire idea was Bron shouldered the load until the playoffs so Wade would have something in the tank. Playing only 54 games, Wade had nothing left in the tank for the finals.
will we still have room to sign vet wing players after signing bosh and parsons?..i wish PJ Tucker was a restricted free agent..he would be perfect. imagine having kirk hinrich, PJ tucker, and Tjones as the primary bench players..MOREY DO NOT TRADE TJONES..him in a lineup with bosh at 5 will be crazy
Pretty soon its going to be: "Dwade is only going to play 25 games this year as well as miss the first three rounds of the playoffs so he can be well rested for the finals."
I have a question for those who know about salary cap issues. The Heat have Chris Bosh's bird rights... correct? If so, couldn't they offer him a max contract since they will be able to match any offers and go over the salary cap to re-sign him? If that's the case, why couldn't they sign both LeBron and Bosh to the max and still sign Wade to a nice contract and still sign some decent free agents?
I have no idea how this plays out, but it at least looks as if LeBron told Riley to show him he could improve the roster before he would consider re-signing. Is that why he missed a third of the regular season? Wade's not finished, but he's been steadily slipping the last 5 years. I don't think anyone would feel good about this guy being their team's best player any longer. Spurs whipped them largely because the Heat couldn't play hard nosed defense and had no one able to step up as a consistent second punch.
Of course he isn't. The man isn't going to be known as the guy that "broke up the Big 3". He's going to let this all play out. By signing McBob and Granger, he's not only showing LeBron he's trying to build a team but he's also indirectly letting Bosh know "Hey, your 16/6 last year CAN be replaced (to a certain degree)". Riley gets his rebounding from McBob and he gets perimeter shooting from Granger...two things that Bosh has been whittled down to last year.
I like this a lot. A max deal is a lot of money but a max is what it is going to take to land Bosh. Bosh is underrated and underutilized in Miami. The Rockets could immediately plug him in at the 4 and vastly improve this team. I also like that he will be able to play as a true 4 in our system, whereas Miami often had him playing as an undersized 5. He has an outside shot and pretty decent post moves, and he runs the pick n roll and the pick n pop very well. He is also a active defender and will push his teammates to give more effort on the defensive end (big need for this current rockets team), and he wont mind sharing touches on the offensive end with the offensive weapons our team already has. Overall Bosh seems to be very much a team player. In my opinion the addition of Bosh would improve this team more than the addition of Melo.
If the Heat do, in fact, use the full Non-Taxpayer MLE on McRoberts and/or the Biannual Exception on Granger, then the Heat will be HARD-capped at the "apron" level, expected to be around $81 million this season. The Heat could (hypothetically) re-sign each of Lebron, Wade and Bosh to deals starting at $20.7M. They have full Bird rights on those guys. But they CANNOT then exceed $81 million in total team salary. Not even by a penny.
Thanks David because this answered that question I had before. So with Lebron $20 Wade $20 Bosh $20 McBob $6.5 Granger $2 Cole $2 Napier $1 Haslem $2 (Guesstimate) That's $73.5 million...would that mean they have $8 million left (working with that $81 hard cap figure) to sign players?
so lets assume they do give all of them the max. thats 62.1 McRoberts at full MLE Granger at BAE Napier Norris Cole resign HAslem isn that getting close to 81 already?
They would be above the cap without any exceptions to offer. The way to increase their payroll would likely be through trading. They wouldn't be able to sign free agents, other than minimum guys.
That's what I figured. So I guess my question as to how is it possible for them to fill out a DECENT roster with three max guys still stands.
