Originally Posted by
Pelicanidae
Well I suppose it depends what you mean by ''Adams balls out massively''.
If you mean ''he plays at such a high calibre that he legitimately makes a real argument to deserve $20m'' then that's fine. If he's suddenly playing on par with a Jokic or something then yeah you pay him. That seems unlikely, but it's a thing.
The second point is again, I think, a misjudgment. Firstly, it implies that his time on the team will be/would be entirely summative: in reality, he could easily play the year, leave at the end of it, and still have not been a waste of resources because of the role he plays in development and cultural improvement. Secondly, it's a decision we can't really judge because we would have to see what the plan is for that cap space before we know. If, for example, we pay Hill, a 1st, and 2 seconds to get $30m in cap space and then we use that $30m as the primary room to sign Giannis, then obviously that's not a waste. Now, I don't think that we are going to sign Giannis, that was just an extreme example, but when you make a move that ends in that much cap you can't really judge it until you know what you can do with the opportunity-value that it buys you.