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(08-09-2017, 09:26 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: We have $17-18 million cap space and Smith costed what $3 million a year? That's $21 million.

Tag Zeitler for $13 million and we'd still have $8 million cap space now...

Or keep rationalizing the cheap spending strategy of a team that hasn't won a playoff game in 25+ year...

Nobody with any brains is paying $13.8 mil for a good, but not great, RG.  

You tag Z, and you still need to sign a T for depth(which Andre is doing double duty as T depth).  That puts you down to $4-5 mil, which isn't enough to get an extension done with Eifert or Burfict, so you go into next year with one tag and all three as FA, and probably lose 2 of them.  Instead, you let Z walk this year, get a long term deal done with one of the others with the money you saved this year, then tag the other guy next year and hopefully get a long term deal done.