Three major mailbag questions today.
你认为新的奢侈税系统会失败d in restoring competitive balance to the league?
Restore? I suppose you'd have to go back to the 70's to find anything resembling a competitively-balanced NBA. The league-changing windfall from the Lakers-Celtics battles of the 80's pretty much put an end to that. Considering that the 70's were pre-Stern and that TV ratings were abysmal, I'm not sure anybody in the league really wants a truly balanced league...or at least it's safe to say they'd be nervous about it.
To answer your question more truly, I believe that the new system will succeed in evening out spending for most of the league. Whether that will bring better competition is more doubtful.
The problem is that the NBA is a star-driven enterprise. In most cases ultra-elite talent succeeds. There are only a handful of those super players to go around. No team will have a problem affording one of these guys if they can get their hands on them. What about the other teams in the league though? They can't create players out of nothing. They'll be forced to cobble together rosters from what's left over.
传统的答案如果你不能得到超级巨星是建立一个非常好的球员的团队，并试图赢得一个单位。Rasheed Wallace-Chauncey Mentals Pistons是一个例子，是Warlace-Led Blazer团队在世纪之交。在这个新系统下组装这样的团队将很难。随着团队成功增加，非常好的球员倾向于被尊重（和支付）作为星星和明星作为超级巨星获得重视（和支付）。显然，Pippen-Smith-Wallace-Grant-Stoudamire-Sabonis-Davis-Kemp燃烧器的化身在新规则下会受到昂贵的。这不是问题。问题是，那些底特律的团队也是如此，或任何试图刺激他们的团队。到目前为止，目前目前的罗伊，奥登和芦苇的理想是尼古拉斯巴图姆和鲁迪费尔南德斯的钻石，粗糙的钻石，像杰拉尔德华莱士一样，将提升到精英地位，以及一个主要的收购退伍军人指挥后卫领导他们。现在的恶劣现实是，即使已经发生了所有事情，那么炽热者就永远无法承受那支球队。 No matter how many league giants it challenged or NBA Finals trips it earned, that roster would send the franchise into luxury tax oblivion. Maybe the Lakers with their obnoxious local TV revenue could afford such a lineup but Portland never could. Had everything gone right, Portland would even now be looking to dump players over the next couple of years. Even with things going horribly wrong health-wise, Portland is probably still going to be forced to dump a player or two. I'm not sure how that helps them challenge the league elite.
While this system certainly manages costs around the league, it could also have the unintended consequence of depriving "have-nots" of their traditional recourse when challenging the "haves". I wouldn't be surprised if you see 6-8 teams fielding legitimate superstars and a bunch of muddling mediocrity from the 22-24 teams behind them. You've made the lesser teams more competitive with each other but not with the big dogs. Whether that's an improvement, or even a change, in competitive balance is up to you.
What do you think of Jamal Crawford coming to the Blazers? Or if not him, who else do you think the Blazers could get in the upcoming free agent period. It's going to be crazy!
疯狂它可能是，但不太可能是燃烧者。Jamal Crawford来到波特兰？为了什么？如果西装外套在布兰登罗伊上使用他们的猫头鹰选项，他们仍然扼杀了帽子线，这意味着他们只有500万美元的中级例外，以便为自由代理商而使用。如果他们决定等待他们的决定，他们已经结束并拥有300万美元的迷你例外。我很难想象在联盟中的每一支团队都能提供相同或更多的队伍时，在波特兰的一个主要的自由球员签名。Crawford肯定不需要300万美元。如果他认为500万美元，它只会因为他想和他的伙伴罗伊一起玩，他们在那种情况下不再是一个西装外套。
As usual the Blazers are going to have to do some fast-talking to get their hands on a quality guy. I imagine they'll talk. I have a hard time seeing them making a big splash.
The real question for the Blazers won't be who they can pick up in the next few weeks. It'll be who they can afford to keep over the next couple of years. Does any free agent on the market make the impact that Gerald Wallace does? Yet the Blazers may end up losing Wallace for financial reasons if nothing else. That's the bigger issue here.
We keep hearing this, that, and the other about Greg Oden. Why doesn't somebody just clear up his status? Can he play or not? When are we going to see him again? We can do microscopic heart surgery but nobody can figure out how far away this guy's knee is?
LOL...nice point at the end there. But you've got two levels operating here: what's actually going on with him and what people want to show about what's going on with him. The question isn't how Greg is, but what we know about how Greg is.
走向极端，如果勒吉·奥登是100％健康，并且能够扣押20英尺的箍，我们会知道吗？他的代理人或燃烧者必须在法庭上展示他的能力是什么，直到他有签名合同？他的随行人员会害怕无意中，他会再次受伤而没有保证钱。燃烧器不想在他的合同之前推动他的价值。在这一点上，没有人会让他在法庭附近。我现在不相信他现在的形状，但即使他缺少100％，原则也是如此。
Frankly the information shroud fits in perfectly with the Blazers' historic treatment of Oden and his injuries. The very first time he went down the team was comparatively forthcoming on his progress. Remember the stories about bike rides, leg lifts, eventually running? They were happy to build the drama for his return. When he went down again after that the disappointment was crushing. Ever since the safer course has been to let Greg rehab at his own speed and keep the updates infrequent and muted. After all, what are you going to do with daily, accurate progress reports? If they're not good you'll just be frustrated. If they are good you'd probably take a grain of salt, wait-and-see approach anyway. Either way the proof (and happiness) will only come if and when Oden actually plays again. Anything prior to that is wasted air from a PR perspective.
格雷格怎么样？我不知道。而现在这就是他，他的工作人员和团队都想要的方式。
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--dave（blazersub@gmail.com）
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