07-22-2021, 06:38 AM
(07-21-2021, 04:21 PM)Mapka Wrote: How would this work? We lose THJ to get enough room under the cap to treaten the Hawks, overpay JC and then gift them assets we don't have?
The Hawks showed how this works themself last year. You pay the player and let the other team chose what they want.
That's also why RFAs usually are the last ones to get an offer, after the good teams with cap striked out on the good UFAs.
The time for a trade was, as always with a RFA at the TDL.
The only way I see a SnT is if he wants to go to an over the cap team with a big useless contract (or a big enough trade exception).
Bogdonovic might not be the best example. The only reason Atlanta even got a shot to give an offer sheet was because Milwaukee and Sacramento so obviously broke the rules on what would have been a S&T.
The outgoing from Milwaukee was to be DiVincenzo, Ilyasova and D. J. Wilson. The only thing of value there was DiVincenzo. Collins is at a different level, but RFA deals don't bring back equal value. If the money is too rich for Atlanta (which may or may not be true...who knows), then the deal has to be enough for Atlanta to agree to move on. It isn't an auction as Collins gets to pick his team. It is binary. Atlanta has to decide to either negotiate a deal, or not. If not, then they are in the unenviable position of either overpaying (in their eyes or this wouldn't be a conversation) or losing him for nothing.
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