gunsnewing wrote:What is the max for him?

Yea haha

I wonder if when he is 30 if he gets offered 5yrs $130mil? $25m per?

Is he worth that kind of max or should he take a pay cut to help his team build a winner?

fishmike wrote:Why? Because scorers are money.

And because of his defense. That was the main reason GS wouldn't trade him for Love.

CrushAlot wrote:

VCoug wrote:

fishmike wrote:Why? Because scorers are money.

And because of his defense. That was the main reason GS wouldn't trade him for Love.

Yep yep. He is a 'two way' player.

It was more because Curry is a pretty bad defender so having Curry and Love playing together would be a defensive disaster. Klay is by all accounts a decent defender but he isn't all world D by any means. He's getting paid for being a helluva shooter.

NumberTwoPencil wrote:I _think_ Thompson's going to continue to get better, his defense is tight but it continues to improve, and he's worth the max, right now, to GS but . . . I don't think it's a given that a max contract is the right move for GS. Will he end with a better career than, oh, Joe Johnson? Probably. Will be end up better than Allan Houston? Maybe. I have trouble imagining a better backcourt mate for Curry but I also have trouble imaging Thompson performing at a high level without Curry. The upside, for now: More ridiculously fun GS ball for at least a few years. The downside: GS never quite makes it over the hump with the the team they have now.

Joe Johnson has better rebounding and assist numbers looking at the stats side by side.

Edit: well I was looking at the numbers on my phone and was looking at the wrong columns on basketball red. bottom line is they aren't so dramatic in terms of the difference. But Johnson averaged 2 more assists and 1 more rebound per game at the same age as Klay.

GS has some real assets. Thompson and Lee might be tricky to trade because of their contracts but, hmmmmmmmm, I'd guess nearly everyone else on that team has some value. Perhaps there's not enough there to trade for another star but surely Barnes, Ezeli, Green, Livingston, Iguodala, and even Bogut and his large contract have some value. Lee is under contract through next year, IIRC so he's probably tradeable next year if not this year. It seems to me that they have some flexibility and it's more likely that they will have trouble holding on to players than they will trading a surplus player for a needed player.