07-16-2022, 01:53 PM
(07-16-2022, 01:29 PM)cow Wrote: The problem as I see it is that NBA front offices tend to chase trends and you'll get overpays on positions or skillsets that quickly become regrettable. Most recently it happened with one dimensional shooters (Bertans, Harris, Robinson) because NBA offense became all about the three. Oddly enough we bucked that trend with Curry only to trade him away and later end up with one of those horrible contracts. You can also get the perfect storm of a large salary cap bump and severely average players getting massive paydays off of a career year. Look at our very own Ian Mahimni and contracts signed around the same time as the perfect example
With JB, you probably want to err on the side of an overpay for a lot of reasons. Even if his upside is limited, he's not one dimensional and he always puts the work in to improve and then improves. And as we saw, the likelihood of a return on our investment in him was slim to none and of course we got none. Dallas typically has to outbid teams in dollars or years (McGee) to get them here.
I posted about this before but I'm still not sure what to think of the mid-tier contracts. I think I'd rather just have max deals (Luka), bargain deals (DFS, Maxi, Bullock) and low end veteran deals (McGee) than I would mid level deals (THJ, Brunson) but that's in an ideal world with options and Mavs usually don't have a lot of those.
Research corroborates your opinion:
https://www.truehoop.com/p/the-dollar-va...inning-nba