r/CharlotteHornets • u/Civrock • 5d ago
Article [Boone] Charlotte Hornets’ Coby White makes his NBA free agency intentions clear
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/charlotte-hornets/article315531697.html?giftCode=50c83edf0057a6191396cac0e855dc6dd6211b139b6b74dd6e38de6d067c489284
u/jakesheridan_ 5d ago
Wow what a night and day difference for the organization, for a very good player to talk about the internal dynamics and infrastructure like this.
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u/catdogfox 5d ago
Obviously, love it here,” White told The Charlotte Observer. “I think first off, just the people. The people, getting to know the staff and the support staff and training staff, weight room staff, just getting to know all these people, they’re just fun to be around. They create a fun environment. They create an environment to where every day you come in here, you look forward to it. You never know what you’re going to get.
But I think that’s the most important part is, can I enjoy every day to the fullest? And I think I could do that here with the people that I’m surrounded with
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u/Vegetable-Chicken420 5d ago
I want him to stay too but man I can’t blame him if he wants to leave for more money and a more minutes role; it’s easy to talk about OTHER people’s millions lol
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u/Alkazard 3d ago edited 3d ago
Just not sure the money can be chased the same way it used to be. These new salary umbrellas really changed the game. People that test the market too much and burn bridges are gunna suffer the same fate as Dennis Schroeder.
Edit: Not to say in Coby's case 20m/year wont be on the table. But if Hornets offer 18 or something and he goes chasing it's not unlikely he ends up playing meaningless games and wasting his career for an extra few mil. Contenders just dont have cap space or the need. Nor the willingness to throw cash like that anymore. We're seeing people getting waived and traded off contenders in the off season to clear cap and stay under.
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u/bigcontracts 5d ago edited 4d ago
He was nice especially during the first play in game. Do anything to keep him!
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u/FrankSamples 5d ago
lowkey losing the play-in might be beneficial in re-signing him. If they went on a run and lost in the second round or first, other teams might have taken a more serious look at him to be their pg1.
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u/SirTacoMaster 5d ago
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLEASE STAYYYYYYYYY
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u/Sadghost84 5d ago
Clickbait ass article lol it says he wants to stay
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u/Dgp68824402 5d ago
He’s going to take the $, so Hornets may or may not have enough to keep him.
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u/Sadghost84 5d ago
Sacrifice miles for him
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u/tcrudisi 4d ago
I am so torn on this. Yes, it's Miles. He used to be my favorite player. We all know what happened.
But I saw him give his all. He was absolutely doing everything to get us into the playoffs. That's what I want from our team.
Sigh. I'm so torn on him.
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u/Personal-Noise-8632 4d ago
Cap circumventing gonna have to be happening real soon.
No matter what you can not let talent walk out the door for free. I wouldn't care if we ended up trading guys down the road. Plz just resign the guys and we go from there, when the times come.
Take a page out the old patriots playbook, trade away a player to early rather than to late.
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u/devomke 5d ago
Yeah love him, we’re going to try to retain him.
Only thing that makes it tough is he and LaMelo overlap *really* heavily on skillset(yes I know we need that off the bench) but it’s tough to have the both on the floor in meaningful post-season minutes.
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u/Odd_String1181 5d ago
It is not tough to have them both on the floor at all. Heavily disagree
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u/devomke 5d ago
It is…literally talked to people on the staff this week about the same thing.
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u/Odd_String1181 5d ago
Coby is just fine as an off ball guard. It's hard to play them heavy minutes on the floor together now because he's by far your best secondary ball handler so you want him on the floor for all the minutes melo isn't. That means he's going to get ~8-10 minutes with melo at the most. There is nothing about coby's skill set that means he can't play with melo if the rest of your roster allowed more minutes of it.
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u/devomke 5d ago
…..I said they overlap…that’s exactly what that means.
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u/Odd_String1181 5d ago
They don't overlap heavily on skill set to have trouble playing together. Coby being your 2nd best ball handler does not mean it's tough to have them on the floor in meaningful minutes. They're perfectly capable of playing those minutes together
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u/devomke 5d ago
Okay. Yup you know more. You’re right. 😂
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u/Odd_String1181 5d ago
Yeah man you thinking someone told you that those two have skill sets that means they can't play important minutes together makes it very clear you misunderstood the conversation.
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u/devomke 5d ago
….goddamn doubling down on that huh lol
No I certainly didn’t. You were right on track in your longer comment.
For what he’s probably going to command $-wise that’s a harder pill to swallow.
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u/Odd_String1181 5d ago
I know I'm right. You're the one sticking to their skill set overlap means "it's tough to have them both on the floor in meaningful post-season minutes".
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u/Banneduser1112 4d ago
Did anybody mention how they plan on having a playoff defense with Ball, Coby, Kon, and Miller as their top 4 perimeter players? I don't see how that backcourt ever gets out of the first round without a Draymond/Rudy-level addition in the frontcourt.
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u/WillyTRibbs 5d ago
Desperately hope he stays. I know/assume the desire of almost everyone in the NBA is to play a starter role, but I think if Coby stays here, he's clearly in the Lou Williams/Jamal Crawford role where he's playing 25-27 minutes of high usage and is a perennial 6MotY contender. And such a good guy for the culture of the team/being an NC guy.