07-27-2021, 12:07 AM
(07-26-2021, 11:59 PM)mvossman Wrote: If we pay 18-20 mil for THJ while operating under the cap, it will be a complete failure. Honestly its hard to see any under the cap scenario where I would not be disappointed with THJ. It's also hard to see any good over the cap scenario where we keep both KP and THJ.
Correct.
THJ Mavs salary reactions:
$14M or less - that's acceptable, as long as we get something else good in free agency. Welcome back, Hugsmeister!
$14.25M-$16.5M - Eh. They paid him as a starter, when he ain't if we want to make the second round.
$16.75M-$18M - Typical Mavs, bidding against themselves and unnecessarily clogging their cap. The Luka clock is officially ticking in the worst way possible.
$18.25 or more - Can we please have Donnie back? Even he wouldn't have been so abjectly stupid.
You can't look at THJ as the other teams competing for his services would. He cannot start for the Mavs, period. He's worth less to us than to those other teams. If he wants to give us a sweetheart deal, great; otherwise retaining him is dumbassed. Given that Norman Powell is better at defense and could thus start for us, it would be dumb not to pursue him over THJ.