Mid-Level targets

[omahen]

What are you thinking? There is no trade (or potential trade) being discussed. This is a strategy for trying to get a RFA away from another team, by minimizing (to the smallest amount possible) their time to figure out if they have a good way to keep you from doing it.

Yes you want them to barely have any time, but if they match they can't trade him anyhow (he gets a no-trade), so there's that.

I am sure it is very easy to prepare for a couple of scenarios, if offer sheet comes. Can they still negotiate a SnT, once the offer is made? Can the player be SnT into the MLE?

Who knows what Portland and Boston are thinking. Perhaps they are bluffing, perhaps they are not. Perhaps they just want to squeeze something from bidding teams. 

So from Mavs perspective, they can either play the russian rullete, make the offer and hope they won't match or they can offer asset to not match. If the price for that is our last standing SRP, I would give it. I think the loss if a team matches the offer sheet is much much bigger than losing one SRP. 


P.S.: lets not forget it is the player who chooses to sign the offer sheet. Mavs are likely not the only bidders out there. So it might be the players looking at offers what is delaying the process.