03-19-2021, 07:23 AM
(03-19-2021, 04:12 AM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: Collect assets and prepare a trade for a legit 2nd/3rd option.
I would say that Mavs are actually doing the variation of that. They are very patient with the team and prefer continuation over marginal improvements. Unless the star gets available everything they did was sign players to team friendly contracts that are easy to move. In effect this is slowly increasing their asset chest. They have Brunson and 3 rookies as young assets someone might have interest in. They have 2025 and 2027 FRP and a bunch of team friendly contracts. They actually even turned Seth into a pick and a good player.
I trully hope their FA plan is to resign JRich and THJ, assuming their contracts will be reasonable, and stay over the cap.
Based on this I see two possible ways for the ofseason as I would hate not to use Johnson contract and bet everything on FA:
- turn Johnson into 1 year longer contract as it would come really handy as a SnT option for one of the RFA. But teams like Orlando will never pay assets to get out of their contracts. Not like they will be competitive any time soon after they sell their starters. What we could hope for would be useful but overpaid players. Like Prince or Osman for example. Not many of them around as I doubt anyone would be ready to split with this season aquisitions yet (Bogdanovic, Gallo as examples).
- second option is to turn Johnson into good expiring player like OPJ for example. Someone you would like to resign