2021-2022 MAVS NEWS: 4th in West | WCF loss [ARCHIVED]

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Thanks for this.  I don’t think this is too hard to figure out.  Miami could pay Redick $16mm to not play just as easily as they are paying Dragic $19mm to not play.  Green is the Achiuwa recent draft piece.  Fill in with a small expiring contract.

Dallas must have thought they had a chance on Lowry and were hell bent on staying over the cap to accomplish that.  Who knows?  Maybe they had intel that Toronto wanted to trade him out of conference.  Personally I would have preferred going under the cap and doing Holmes/THJ, but it would have cost us Bullock (who looked like a good consolation prize).  

I haven’t been too hard on them because we didn’t know the market for Holmes would dry up like it did and I like the Bullock signing.  We also couldn’t know Frank would sign here (and might not have without urging from Bullock).  Given the way the schemes (or lack thereof) are working, I’m not sure Holmes does anything to help our offense right now.  Of course, the attraction was his D and rebounding while pushing Powell/Maxi to the bench.  But, if we are going to go single big KP in the playoffs (and the Powell/KP lineups are just to protect KP), Bullock was the better signing anyway.

Yeah, that is interesting.

Regarding Bullock, what are your thoughts of next year with DFS and Bullock being  both on the roster?  It is my opinion, one of them will be gone.   Right now, DFS is not looking like a 10 million a year player, but if I had to guess he picks up his game and next offseason will be looking at a 8-10 million dollar deal.   

I just don't know if it is smart to tie yourselves to 20 million for two guys who still lack one of the main skills we need.  Both are good players and both bring different benefits.    Bullock is a guy the new leadership brought in, so he may have the advantage.

It would suck to lose DFS for nothing, but I don't know if I can justify carrying both next year.   I think you may be able to use Green (hopefully), Eugene or maybe a rookie to play 15-20 minutes.   Thoughts?