Yeah...we've made several moves to move off salary that lead me to believe that we won't be OK with having our 11th guy be paid anything more than the minimum. If House, Paschall, or Forrest get offered above the minimum I think they are gone. In Paschall's situation, I would want to leave anyways for more opportunity. I don't think Gay is that bad, but it's pretty clear that he's not going to reach some of the upper end of some of our expectations/hopes. The idea of him becoming a closing option is completely out of the picture, for example. He's really just in the Niang role, and while it will be hard for him to perform worse than Niang did last year, I had way more confidence in Niang going into the playoffs last year than I do with Gay right now. But it's not that bad.
The missed opportunity on Paschall bothers me more than Gay playing. I think Paschall is someone we should lock down for multiple years. He's entering his best years of basketball and is really talented. He's shown me enough this year that he can scale down to smaller usage role, but he still has the ability to get buckets if we needed to call upon him. When you have a very expensive team, it's essential that you have cheap good players locked down for multiple years.
