03-29-2021, 02:28 PM
(03-28-2021, 10:34 PM)ItsGoTime Wrote: Why is Conley even a suggestion? After he switched teams, it took him a mulligan year to get on track with that new team. There are guys like that in the NBA. I believe JRich to be one of them, only, we're going through the mulligan year with JRich now. After Conley's mulligan year he'll be 36 and we'll be wanting to trade him after that year as well!
This isn't how basketball works. Not every player has a "mulligan year." Some players fit in great, some take time, some never pan out. Delon Wright did not get a mulligan year for better or for worse. He wasn't a bad player, but wasn't a fit for the Mavs so he got moved along. J Rich is more of an open question but not trending in the right direction. There is no guarantee he is going to pan out.
The Jazz got Mike Conley on a high risk (ish), high reward (ish) type trade in 2019. They bundled mostly stuff + a protected first to get him. He got a mulligan year because he at 30 mil/yr for 2 years he was untradable. Luckily for them he is having a good year this year and is helping them win basketball games.
I am not against those type of big swings, but the scenario I am pitching is not that necessarily. I think there are some FAs each year that are 30+ that would like to go to a contender and most of those contender's are over the cap so the way you can get them as a 2nd tier city is simply having more money than MLE (or in some cases more than vet min) to make it interesting for them.