2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[Mapka]

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.

He played better for us than he played ever before, he fits perfectly next to our franchise player, but he is less worth to us than to other teams?

You set yourself up to be disappointed.

I see us ending up with THJ+Dinwiddie and keeping WCS with the rMLE and that might do the trick.