2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[omahen]

The 2 teams with interest last offseason were not playoff teams that omahen described either.

In my opinion it is a big difference if a rebuilding team is signing a vet in FA, getting him without paying assets. See Olynik to Detroit and similar. Even rebuilding teams have to spend their cap space. If the vet plays well they can sell him for assets needed for the rebuild. Trading for a vet makes zero sense for them, unless you are paying assets. They are in the asset accumulating business, not asset spending business. Player like THJ will not change the trajectory of a franchise like Detroit given where in the rebuild process they are.

Besides, New Orleans who was reportedly interested in signing THJ does not consider themselves as a rebuilding team. They want to contend. They are just not good at it. Sort of like Sacramento, Minnesota and similar examples.