Tau aren't bankrolled by a billionaire. I've read their budget is around $12-13M for this upcoming season. Off the top of my head one of the spanish clubs are meant to be cost cutting. No links to verify all that. Closest I could find is: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/europe/2006-04-19-top-teams_x.htm
I would give away ALL of anyone else's cash just to not have to think about this any more? Give him the max possible! Now back to paying my light bill.
Need To sign Him for 3 years garunteed for 4 million a year. Lace the contract with incentives that could qualify him for the full mle but only at the end of the contract. 1st year 3.25 mil 2nd Year 4mil 3rd year 4.25 mil -----5 mil ---considering incentive goals are met
Were he to sign the qualifying offer, it would be great news, IMO. It means we would get him cheaply this year, and he would be gone after that. That would mean that Landry and his agent just don't have confidence in what the medical tests would say, which means that we can definitely afford to lose him, longer term. The point is going to arrive, maybe soon, when we are willing to spend part of the MLE, say $2.5 mil, and take a chance that some team will pay Landry over what's left (a little over $3 mil). All the other NBA teams see that Landry doesn't want to undergo those tests. Of course, all this could be a ploy; maybe Landry thinks he can get more from another team anyhow, and suddenly he becomes willing to do the tests after the Rockets cut themselves out of the Landry derby.
I would say somewhere in the ballpark of $3M. If he had a decent agent I could see him going as high at 3.5...but Buddy has pretty much been taken to the cleaners by Morey up to this point. For that reason I have to lean towards Landry receiving a shade under 3. On a side note...how do you block posters? I have noticed a strong correlation between reading a posters thought on "give him the full MLE" or "let him walk" and me thinking they have no idea what they're talking about...
Not just a matter of yearly salary, but also length. Might think about full MLE if it's, say, 1 year with 2nd year team option. This wya, if his health is a problem, you are out the MLE for 1 season-- money which, in all probability, the Rockets don't have anyone else to spend on anyway. Not so much full MLE for 4-5 years. If his knees are screwed, so are trhe Rockets.
If his knee is solid, he's worth the full MLE in the big man drought. If NOT, however, a bag of Doritos... Nah, a spilt bag of Doritos.
help me out then. if some team signed landry to an offer sheet and the rockets did not match then that would qualify as letting him walk, right? i tried to preface this thread by stating that i would likely screw something up. also by taking the average of the poll we get a range between $2.75 mil/year - $3.22 mil/year. the low end would be if we included the let him walk responses as a $0 salary and high end would be discounting those votes. does this seem like a reasonable range for him? basically, i am trying to see if cf.net is a decend predictor of what landry will ultimately be signed for. i figure it's a fun experiment....or i am a complete r****d and it is a terrible experiment
I would like to see Landry with the Rockets this coming season. I hope the Rockets do not lose out to the Euros. I cannot forsee we could get any player with such a high PER in any near future. Players of such high PER is very rare and high PER means these players come in to the game and change the game significantly from losing to winning, from slacking to energizing. It's not about whether he is bench player or not (look at Manu), is not about whether he may need knee injury or not (look at Amare, he is getting paid max but went for knee surgery and 1 year off) and others. It's about if he is on court healthy, he plays very hard, he is playing with energy and he can carry the team. Why some players are getting max pay even they have lingering chronic injury because they are high PER players, they can carry the team, they are stars/superstars and Landry is not asking for the max. If we can sign him for 2-3 mil a year or less, it's good for us but if we can't, we'll have pay him instead of losing him for nothing. If we have settled his rookie contract like what other rookie "normally" got in the NBA, we would not have to pay so much more.
the only knock I have on your poll is I can't see who voted for what...which would help expedite a trip for some posters on to my ignore list... based on your criteria I voted for 50% of the MLE, and it seems like thats what the sweeping majority of this board considers a reasonable estimation of the contract Landry is to receive. I wasn't trying to take a shot at this thread or the poll, but rather my venting was a result of an annoying minority who believes that this team would be best served to simply let Landry walk before a formal offer has even been made or offer the full MLE because summer is making them horny...
explosive jumper who refuses knee surgery to be ready for next season? grow up Carl, fire the agent or tell him to get the deal done. You are losing money everyday that other agents get THEIR players signed. You are being played.
Best post so far. Re-signing Landry is ALL about 2 things. His knee and how much he drives you further into the L-Tax. The Rockets had 3 summertime goals...Barry, Deke and Landry. Pretty low ceiling.
That's what is a little frustrating to me -- re-signing Landry has suddenly become the "big move" of the summer. Will they, won't they? In the grand scheme, who bleeping cares... it's not the move that should have defined the summer. I understand the asset building, and that opting to keep him means he could be traded post-12/15. It's just frustrating that we're entering Year 5 of T-Mac/Yao and still needing a third scorer. But in fairness, Morey did say he was well aware this team was a third guy away still and he knows he needs to make a bigger trade sometime between now and the February deadline. In hindsight, maybe the Rockets should have traded Landry last season.
He is only worth the risk of 50%! Have you ever considered that all of this is just created to occupy our minds during the off season, Les has put on the financial clamps and Morey has little to nothing to work with so he created a situation where he is tied up by the Baker/ Landry problem for most of the offseason and is unable to make any move to get us the players we really need. Just to save face!! Just before the season starts Mutombo retires,Francis and Head are traded for picks and Landry signs and is in camp with the team. All are smiles and roses,Les gives his speach about the greatest team ever assembled etc.!!
A 9-10 M for three years, that should be the offer from the Rox. Just let him walk if other team offer him a full MLE, which is not likely the case for him. Again, he is not a player to play in the Euro games, would be more cheap after staying in Euro for two years.
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