(01-30-2022, 12:14 AM)dynamicalVoid Wrote: Are you sure you're not making it as if Mavs didn't have alternatives to signing thj to a bad contract? Every other contract with another player would have been equally as bad or equally as strenuous on the cap?
All these people saying it was a bad move or not ideal...and you're defending it as if there were no other options. Is that correct?
Mavs had no other option but to sign a bad contract?
You are putting words in my mouth. The other option was to lose THJ for nothing. I get that you think that was a better option. But there was no option to spend that same money on someone else. The cap rules don’t work that way. And there was no option to keep him at 10M/year.
Now, could the Mavs have pulled off a sign and trade for a player on a better deal? Who knows. Could they have gone under the cap and had a little space in place of the full MLE? I don’t recall. But not significantly more space than the MLE (which they would’ve lost).
I’m fine with disliking the deal. It’s early, I think, to call it a mistake. But it obviously hasn’t gone well so far. It’s another thing to say the Mavs should’ve signed someone else in his place. There is no cap path I can see that would’ve allowed them to land a contributor in his place. And his deal at the time seemed more than fair to me.