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fullblowncaniac

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Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 12, 2021 at 12:14 p.m.
Thread: Testing with Jesperi QO
The entire thing was planned from the beginning and is going swimmingly for Carolina. KK won't get his QO, he'll sign lower but for long term. Which is what his agent will tell him to do.

The whole point was to overpay for 1 year, play him very little and not in great situations so that he can't break out and demand his QO again realistically. Then next year sign him to a long term contract at a more reasonable cap hit (Maybe 4.5Mx 6 years), which he'll want because he knows he won't get 6.1M on the open market again if chooses to go to market anyway so whats the point of holding out? It would only hurt his stock. So he'll sign a long term contract at a respectable rate. Carolina will get the player on a decent contract who hopefully performs. I imagine they'll start playing him big minutes and with the best players starting only next year when Trocheck and Staal are gone that way KK lives up to his contact and more. This is literally a masterclass in how to do an OS properly.

MB thought slightly overpaying a front loaded contract was him being "smart". Waddell is playing Chess. MB is playing tic tac toe.