05-10-2023, 02:23 AM
(05-09-2023, 09:39 AM)DallasMaverick Wrote: Another guy, like Ayton, who can show you significant flashes and then disappear for awhile.
In both cases, we'd say they are serviceable players but paid max money. Their teams were caught over a barrel and forced to overpay rather than let them walk. Now, roster construction is difficult.
...and with the new CBA, it will be even more difficult.
Sometimes it's better to let a serviceable player walk rather than pay max money. Very few teams have the discipline to do that, but I'm betting we'll see more of it in the next couple of years.
The CBA is designed this way the moment the forced rookie contracts.
Max contract is essentially paying & compensating a good player for what he has done in his rookie underpaid contract, not just for the size of the new contract.
You also have to take agents in consideration, you don't want to be a Charlotte or Utah, where your own players know you will try to screw them at first chance and you can't wait to do get out.
Also, values of young and healthy players rarely fade totally in a year, let's see how the likes of Poole or Ayton will get in the trade market