2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[mvossman]

I greatly disagree with your view of Harris - I don't think he's nearly that special. If I squint, maybe worth 20M, but he's not an impact player at all.

"its not really impacting our ability to make moves. ".....This view on salaries, I think you are simply wrong. Every salary impacts what else you can do, and big gigantic bloat will have a massive ripple effect all through the roster.

It's not just about cap permission and being painted into a corner capwise. Owners do bail on willingness to spend. Once you're paying big tax, every extra dollar of salary has a huge gouge on an owner's willingness to get the next guy, because each added 1M will cost you 5M-6M in actual outlay.

With the Mavs, juggling the payroll to end up with adding a starter-level wing making 20 or so and a starter-level big making 15 or so, and increasing the payroll a few mill from the 175M-ish they are likely to be after Brunson signs, I can see that. But this isn't that. The 20M overpay on Harris will end up crippling what else happens, which makes no sense. If I'm the owner, I say "Find something better, this is not acceptable work."

Will have to agree to disagree.  It all comes down to a different valuation on Tobias.  I am guessing the open market would disagree with your valuation by a significant margin.  He is basically the same player that got overpaid on his current contract.