03-16-2022, 09:42 AM
(03-16-2022, 09:26 AM)Chicagojk Wrote:
Yeah, I wouldn't think it is a done deal. I would have felt better if Dallas was aggressive this past offseason trying to get an extension with Jalen. Even if Jalen decided he wanted to play out the year. From reports though, Dallas never even formally made an offer. Not good! I understand the reason, but it certainly doesn't create warm and fuzzies. Plus, Jalen may feel that he may be re-signed so they can keep an asset and not a long term piece. I think Kidd has done good with Jalen, but who knows what Mark thinks.
Or what Jalen thinks. I cringed Sunday when Luka blasted him on national TV when Jalen left his appointed spot on the perimeter and Luka zipped the pass to no one.
Fischer later qualified that he doesn’t equate the questions around Brunson with getting under the tax. Easy to draw a straight line, but he doesn’t believe that. Tim and Jake then talked about the possibility that THJ still has value around the league. People look at Hield and D Robinson and Bertans and THJ as bad contracts, but the league still values those guys because shooting is hard to come by. The trick, I think, is making any THJ deal look like improvement on our part. Kind of like Dragic and a first for an upgrade that Toronto was supposedly shopping. I’d predict we will try to get under the apron more than under the tax. One is about flexibility and one is about cash. It is hard to preach flexibility like we did at the TDL and not make some effort to stay under the apron.