The gm has to bring in talent...
A good coach makes the talent efficient...

Coaches are paid to get the most out of players and Gay should not make less than Luol Deng.

The problem with Memphis was similar to the Bulls when we had Kirk and BG...

They didn't have enough scoring from the 1,2 so the 3 had to compensate and play outside his realm.

If Mayo was more consistent or they had a consistent scorer from the 1,2 positions, then Hollins would be able to utilize Gay differently but that wasn't the case nor is it currently.



Hell look at Luol Deng. He wasn't earning his money 5-6 years ago and plenty people gave him shit for it, because he was the #1 scoring option or #2 if you consider BG coming off the bench...

What happened, Rose and Boozer happened.

Now Deng could focus on defense and fine tuning his game where he can get to spots and be that 2nd or 3rd option and his game has improved overall. He adapted and coaching was a big part, but giving him 11 million in 2006 would seem dumb as hell for what you were getting.


Gay is good and worth 11-12 million easily all around.


Hell people argued if James Harden was worth a max contract or would a GM be dumb to pay him, when all it took was a different environment for you to see he could get his.