So BRoy has just opted to have arthroscopic surgery on both his knees. Now this is the same surgery he had during the playoffs last year to help take care of his ailing knees and we all know how well that one turned out.
The Blazers are stuck between a rock and a hard place right now. If I were Blazers management, I would tell Roy that we are shutting him down for the season until we can find a viable option that may find a way to lengthen his career. The team is worse with him on the court, there is no question about that. And they have been clicking as of lately, despite the woeful shooting. They don't gain a thing by bringing him back especially since other teams know how is he a shell of his former self.
Unfortunately for the Blazers are paying him max money, marking him as the franchise player. But Brandon Roy will never be a franchise player again, barring a medical miracle. And he still thinks that he is. From his comments earlier in the year regarding Andre Miller, he still thinks that this offense and team runs through him. Because the Blazers tagged him as the franchise player, they can't really shut him down for the year without worrying about alienating him.
And the worst part is, the announcement that he is getting arthroscopic surgery only seems to indicate that the Blazers hope to bring him back on the court, not unlike they did in the Phoenix series.
The Blazers MUST make a stand and tell him that he isn't seeing the floor until he accepts his diminish role and hands over the franchise tag to Aldridge (a part of me just died when I typed that) or until they find a medical procedure that will return him to '08-'09 BRoy because it is obvious that the Blazers are an inferior team with Brandon Roy on the floor.
Anyone else feel like it is going to be another five years or so until our championship window reopens? I don't think that it is a coincidence that that is when Roy's contract is up.
And for the record, no, this is not an anti-BRoy post. But sometimes you have to set aside your personal feelings for a player and recognize that this is a business and the team has to do what is best for the team, not for the player.
what happens if we straight cut him? can we do that? Assuming we'd still have to pay him the rest of his contract, will the money still go towards our salary cap?
ReplyDeleteWe should just cut him to free up space and give us more options in free agency and trading. It sucks to do it, but if we want to win (and if he'll never be back to what he used to be) we have to make a big change.
We can just cut him but he stays on the cap and we have to pay him his full salary. So really we don't gain anything by cutting him. We are really in a tough spot right now with this contract.
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