2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[DanSchwartzgan]

RE: Paying Old Men Lots of Money

I do not want the Mavs pursuing ANY big money guys over the age of 33. No. No. No.

I’m not an advocate of it either, but mainly because of the emergence of Brunson.  Absent that, I’d be thinking differently.

Paul and Conley are what, Top 30?  I get the concern about money three years down the road, but if they had an interest in coming here, they would be hard to pass up.  The issue is why would they have an interest in coming here...especially Paul (it will be interesting to see how Utah handles the LT implications of retaining Conley...who I really like).  I think Lowry is the easiest one to get and doesn’t have the agent conflict you have with Paul and Conley.  His play has tailed off a good bit.  First team to $50 million over 2 years gets him.  One thing that still intrigues me is I think you can play the cap-trick with the non-guaranteed third year and get him for less than the carnage it would take to get Paul or Conley.  

Realize if we take an anti-33 plus stand and don’t believe the tooth fairy will somehow make all of our perfectly timed order of operation dreams come true regarding Collins that we’ve wiped away all of the top ranked FA’s on the board this summer.  Gone are Leonard (Pipe Dream), Paul, Lowry, Conley and DeRozan and Collins.  Allen probably doesn’t fit and Oladipo is already in Miami (and a bigger injury risk than any of the old guys).  That wipes out the top 8 in most rankings.  Next up Ball, Drummond, Ibaka and Dinwiddie according to the Hoops Hype rankings.