(02-12-2022, 12:14 PM)Winter Wrote: Why is it a debate? We couldn't get close by keeping KP. You don't seem to be arguing that.
If you have to rid yourself of KP, do it as soon as you can and use whatever you have to re-tool.
As for the bottom part of your post, players change every season. People said Tim Hardaway had a terrible contract when we acquired him. Two years later, he had a very good contract. It was the SAME contract. He's the one that changed. Andrew Wiggins might be another example.
Salaries are based on two things. Performance and projected performance. If the projections are out of synch, it is suddenly a bad contract. But no one know what's going to happen, and every team has this problem at some point.
Why debate? It's a message board, silly. I wanted to be off of KP as bad as anyone, even when he was putting up good numbers. I just wonder if this was the best move for the Mavericks. I tend to think long term though and how the affects the retool. I do believe the team needs a major overhaul and when you compare it to other teams that drafted similar talent to Luka in a similar timeframe, Mavs are behind. A lot of that due to missing on KP and I don't really find fault in the Mavericks for the attempt. They've just made the degree of difficulty on the course correction more difficult and that's for a front office that is very challenged in the first place.
Re: Players change every season. Addressed in my post too, see the Paul reference. Tim's a good example too. I think he and Carlisle closed the gap on the perceived value of his contract. I'd argue he was still overpaid and we should have let someone else overpay him this offseason but his contract structure helps moving forward. I'm seriously impressed by Wiggins but I'd still call that an overpay.
That might be an oversimplification to how salaries are derived, some applicable to DB, some not. I guess I have an equally simplistic litmus test on contract value though. haha.