(10-17-2019, 01:11 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(10-17-2019, 01:09 PM)Bullseye Wrote: So why's it presumed Ngakoue didn't want to tango?

The tram knew he was a professional.  The tram knew he is productive when healthy and has been fairly durable.  The team knows he is in the last year of his deal.

The team has no problems throwing money at free agents from other clubs, having less first hand knowledge of their work ethic, attitude, etc., than they have about Yan.

They tried.. he said no.

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Pretty simple

But if the team offered something he found unacceptable, why should he easily accept it?

If he asked for $50  million a year for the next twenty seasons nobody would blame the team for rejecting the offer.

Yet if the team offered minimum wage and Ngakoue turned it down, suddenly he is the unreasonable one?

Let's look at this from a most team specific perspective.

Of the three players from that 2016 draft, rank them in order of importance to that 2017 run.  Put aside any angst towards Jalen for the moment and answer objectively.

Now which of the three is the only one to get an extension?

Why?

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