2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[Arioch]

I feel like folks are getting way too excited about Bertans.  He is considered one of the worst contracts in the league.  There are reasons for that.  Whether its his lack of defense, his injury issues, the fact that his only contribution on the court is to shoot corner threes, likely all of the above.  He has had one good season in his career.  The idea that we would be hesitant to send him out in a trade for Collins is greatly over valuing his likely impact on the court.

Out of curiosity, I went to Google and did a simple "worst contracts in the NBA" search. Bertans doesn't show up on every list, but as you say, he's high on a lot of them. But the commentary on every single list that includes him bangs on his current shooting percentage as *the* reason it's a bad contract. To people's point, if the Mavs can rehabilitate him to his historic shooting percentages, then it may not be a great contract but it's also not an awful one.