(01-10-2021, 02:29 AM)khaled1987 Wrote: What is the 10M number based on?
Players of similar caliber, like Gallinari, Bertans etc got twice this number, for me it is safe to assume his fair market value will be closer to that number than it to 10M.
And JRich isn't as good as spot up shooter, that alone makes THJ very valuable and essential part of this team success
I thought of a number slightly over the full MLE to keep other teams with the MLE off of him. Of course if he can repeat last season's success, going up to 11-12 would not hurt much.
As for similar caliber players getting double that amount, certain factors affected that, beginning with those players being similar caliber somewhat dubious.
While Gallo and Tim have almost identical 3PT shooting numbers (C&S, PU; WO, O, T) both in volume and efficiency, Gallo is also a 6'10'' guy who can put the ball to the floor and go to the rim, drawing fouls (7.9 FTA compared to 4.2 from Tim per 100 poss, hitting almost 90% of them) and collecting rebounds. Besides, Atlanta pays that money because they have to reach the salary floor one way or another, and they may have wanted some veteran presence in the locker room.
Washington didn't have cap room, so they were not going to be able to replace Bertans if they had let him go. He signed a contract starting at 15 million$/year, which is considered an overpay by the most. And Bertans is better as a shooter! He shot 42.4% on 1.5 more attempts compared to Tim's 40.1%, more importantly he hit 47.7% on 2.1 wide open attempts, 41.4% on 4 open attempts and 40.6% on 2.2 tight attempts. Tim's numbers are 46.3%, 39% and 34% for those respectively. Bertans is also 6'10'' and he runs of screens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpS_9OeS-q4
Joe Harris got a deal starting at 16 million$/year and he hit 57.1% of his threes last year (58.8% when wide open). So if the best shooting-only players got those contracts (and they were more valuable to the their incumbent teams because of how salary cap works), slightly above mid-level sounds fair to me. It will ultimately depend on how desperate we are for that shooting.