I usually agree with Rollie, but that has reached its ceiling. Eric Turner is the basketball equivalent to duct tape. It's a miracle product, but it's not a real fix.
I was thinking maybe we'd resign him for the maximum years around $10 million/year, Gerald Wallace or close to Bradley money.
We signed Crowder for $7 million/year last year. I don't blame Turner for not waiting for the Celtics and a possible hometown discount. He just got the worst contract in the league. It is really not any less outrageous than the Mozgov deal.
I doubt Evan or is it Eric would have taken anything less than $15 million considering the Portland offer. How high could Danny go? Evan Turner is the typical good not great player we have had in abundance. If you pay him that money, it's setting too high a bar for when other good but not great players need a new contract.
Evan was very good the second half of the year and clutch in the playoffs. I don't think he's as severe a false positive as Mark Blount was, but there's no reason to believe that there is any ceiling left for him to reach. He developed into a solid ball hog, and it's true technically his various roles will need to be replaced or transformed, but Evan Turner is not that great.
He has left on good terms. He is busy praising Boston. It's yet another happy ending to a Danny Ainge GM story where Boston looks good even when a player leaves.
Turner is a heads or tails player. He is not transcendent in any way. He will win or lose you some games. Maybe he will win you a bit more games than lose them. If a player could be defined in terms of win-loss projection for a team, say everyone is around the caliber of that player, give or take away some praise, then imho, Evan Turner translates into 45-50 wins and a treadmill in the best case scenario.
It's time to move on. Evan or Eric Turner is not the poor man's LeBron at small point forward.
Evan Turner is not needed for small forward. Brown also seems capable of filling in at the tall SG position to go with his duties as Crowder's backup at SF.
The only thing that the Celtics need to worry about with losing Turner is his point guard skills. Isaiah handles most of the game and I assume Rozier and Smart (and perhaps Jackson) can take care of the other ten to fifteen minutes.
In short, Evan Turner is an overrated luxury piece. He'd be perfect at $5 million per year, but obviously that did not happen. A lot of teams are ruining their futures in real time during this free agency. I'm glad it's not the Boston Celtics.
If Danny is going to open up the megabucks account, at least it will be for proven stars such as Horford and Durant. If Danny starts overpaying players such as Turner or Sully, then I might wonder whether he is still fit for the GM position. But he hasn't and it looks like he won't.
I like Danny's strategy of going for home runs over resigning treadmill players.
If we get the pricey free agents, then we are immediately going for the title and will have a four year window. Then after that, the younger players and future draft picks should be ready and still on cheap contracts.
Other teams will shoot their loads this year and next and then be experiencing extreme franchise pain in the future. If we don't get Horford, then obviously Amir and maybe even Zeller will come back.
We can't lose either way. If fireworks take place, we immediately become championship contenders. If Danny doesn't hit a tater or two in free agency, he can fudge out band-aids for the center position. Eventually Zizac will be on the team. Maybe not this year. I see us winning 50+ games no matter what. Sometimes the best moves are no moves. Resigning Eric Turner at big money was not an option.
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