01-10-2026, 10:37 PM
(01-10-2026, 03:31 PM)F Gump Wrote: I'm not convinced the "tax" itself is an issue at all. They do need to generally lower payroll somewhat, but from what I can tell that's more of a need to stay under A2 (which has wider consequences) and gain some roster-building flexibility, and not so much about having to pay tax. Eventually they would be smart to work with a somewhat more efficient payroll, of course.
But imo the goal should be maintaining or increasing the talent they have and getting rid of the unproductive players on bad contracts (Hardy, Martin, DAR), not the good ones. Talent is hard to obtain. If you have it, don't let go of it for air (aka cap room) but instead swap it for other talent, if you need a change.
This team isn’t anywhere near good enough to make carefully considered tweaks to build talent. Outside of Flagg, it’s a shithole. The longer they putoff “Eventually”, the longer it will take to get back on track. Outside of Flagg, Max, and DLive, if his career wasn’t ended by Nico’s medical staff’s malpractice, there isn’t a single player on this roster who will plausibly be in the rotation by the time the Mavs can recover to a competitive team. They need to move fast and dump all the old, injury prone, overrated, and crappy players on the roster.