2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[Mavs2021]

Someone who not only has great PPP on plays rolling to the rim, but someone who 

1) sets great screens, 
2) changes the entire spacing of the floor with his "roll gravity," 
3) is not switchable against (you can't put a smaller player on him without getting punished), AND 
4) knows how to make himself available when the ball handler is doubled on the screen.

I know what he does. I just doubt that you need to pay 15M/year for this skill or that the rim-roller makes the guard, rather than the other way around. It´s not Dwight Powell that makes Luka. If the other team wanted Powell to have zero points, they´d do it. If the other team doesn´t want Luka to have 60, then Powell gets five open dunks.

If you are getting called an elite rim-roller, it´s basically a backhanded compliment, cause it usually means that you can´t shoot, play great defense and are completely reliant on your team mates getting you easy buckets.

Yeah you are still pretty good at something in basketball, that is why people want to give you five million dollars to do it. But they don´t want to give you 15M or 25M dollars, unless it comes with offensive (shooting) talent or elite defense.

So since we already overpay Dwight Powell for his services, there is no way we can even consider adding another center at more than a rookie salary. We have already committed 42M to Porzingis/Powell. If you add another 15 for Holmes, we pay over half our available money to three centers, while we have one guy on the whole roster that can create off the dribble for himself and others.