05-27-2025, 08:53 PM
(05-27-2025, 12:17 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: 1 However I know I’ve said it before but I am a bit more optimistic on this draft than you. Although I get your reasoning. A bad player is dead salary no matter how you cut it. The further you get in any draft the more likely you get a bad player statistically.
2 But even if the Mavs made the trade for another pick, they’d still need to fill Martin’s roster spot.
And this summer that’d most likely be some sort of vet min on their last legs. I’d rather take a swing on a guy in this draft not only cause I value a younger dude than a vet min, but it also helps salary wise if the Mavs are signing a vet <7 years experience.
1 We'll have to agree to disagree on the quantity of quality (higher likelihood of eventually being worth something) players in this draft. Next year is the draft you want. For an objective answer to that question, on draft day we can observe how many late FRPs get moved for relatively cheap in comparison to usual. I think they'll be really easy to get if you want one.
2 I don't think the Mavs have empty roster slots looming. Are you forgetting that if Martin is given away, you're filling that space with a PG? Or are you envisioning someone like Morris being the 15th man with a non-gtd min and idling in a rocking chair?
If it's the latter, there's no way any draft pick assumes that role anyhow.
I personally wonder if they just leave the Cheerleader Slot (15th) empty this year, but we'll see. They certainly did without one after the TDL. Maybe they leave slot 15 open for incentive to 2-way guys, or use it as "tryouts" with NGs/10-days given to a raw PG (and if he fails, another, and another) to be the next BW.
If you're think the scrub pick gives fodder for a PG tryout, the problem is that a pick that low in this draft isn't going to be that ready anyhow. I see much more potential in trying to find the new BW, the crusty youngster of a PG who's been working hard to develop for several years in GL and elsewhere.
Re the comparative minimums, when it comes to Apron math, ALL minimums count the same unless it's a 2nd Rounder rookie (which I see as an absurdity for a roster slot in the Mavs situation).
Just a dollop of planning, and awareness, and tiny differences like that aren't even close to being issues. IMO even with Dumont, it's probably a fireable offense for NTI if he boxes the team in the corner again like he did before, ie if he fails to show any learning on cap-management dangers (and in light of the well-justified derision and PR mockery it created for the organization). Even NTI can only Idiot things up for so long.