yeah, i won't rehash it all, but there's good reason to believe that anyone considering a sizable offer to schroder should try both of those guys first. each guy's team is hamstrung by their current cheap contracts, making offers over the MLE more likely to be successful. also, both guys just played well in the playoffs, while dennis was an embarrassment to his family and nation.
well, my reference was to gilbert arenas: https://www.sportscasting.com/gilbert-arenas-spent-almost-80000-a-year-on-his-pet-sharks/ as a nod to choosing to do incredibly expensive things instead of investing money. but again, arenas had 100+ million, so even that probably did nothing to him.
You know what they say, big tank big fish and the real Dennis Schroder won’t be as big of a fish this off season as he thinks he will be.
Article with The Post discussing the different options for the Knicks The scout's not wrong. He really shot himself in the foot when Bron was out and then in the post season to prove skeptics wrong and get his bag.
It is still boggles my mind that he turned down 4/84. Dennis freaking Schroder turned that much money down. Either Dennis has delusions of grandeur that rival those of Louis Winthorpe III, or he has the worst agent in the NBA.
I’d still love to hear that news broken to the wife with the 2 or 3 small kids in the really cool house they just bought so he could play for the Lakers.
I think Dennis’s problem is he views himself as a starting PG in this league and he should be paid like one. Trouble is, he’s not.
i keep waiting to hear that the 4th year was a team option or some of it wasn't guaranteed or...something... anyway, good for us. that contract might have hurt as much as him just walking for air, imo.
I was very excited when we signed DS. I was quickly disappointed with mediocre play and a me first attitude. I don't believe either are fixable and do not want him back.
I would take him back for the right price, but that right price would likely be so low the resulting Dennis would be intolerable.
this. i think his problem is a fundamental lack of self awareness, and nothing really fixes that. but on a discount deal, we're over a barrel in terms of finding playmaking guards this summer. feel like a big one-year deal makes a lot of sense for both sides, tbh. 1 year, 20 million. if he's a little punk, he's trade fodder at the deadline for a big fish.
If no one offers him big money, why should we bid against ourselves? If it’s only a one year deal we offer, regardless of the price …if he underperforms, he doesn’t get paid next year by someone else. Sure he can pout but then he doesn’t get paid on his next contract.
player/agent relations. we're going to be paying the tax no matter what if we want to compete, so the extra cash is just that (not like we can set up to dodge the repeater by not paying schroder). so why not help dennis save some face and start out on a good foot. plus, too low an offer, and he'll take sub-market deal elsewhere and leave us with absolutely nothing. i doubt it happens this way, but it could be another kcp situation, wherein folks complain that we overpaid early, but we stick with him over time and everyone's happy we did. anyway, the S&T option is still open, but i really think our best bet is probably just a big one-year deal and we revisit next summer (or sooner if it goes poorly). again, my caveat as the manager would be: you have to be willing to come off the bench if the coaches want it.
