why did we draft a guard in the first round?

[Okeana]

(02-21-2017, 04:35 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Guards absolutely get paid that now. You need to keep your best players.

It's not like they'll turn around and bring in a $10 million a year pass rusher with that money.

Sure they get paid, but you can pay less and get almost the same value.  Big Z is the premier guard in this FA class and someone is going to overpay him that's what he's counting on.  When negotiating in business you have to be willing to walk away from the table if perceived value doesn't matched expected earnings.  If he was a premier center I would be all on board to pay him whatever it takes because centers can make or break a team, but we can get another guard in free agency for 7-8 million and the fall off won't be that great.