(09-03-2023, 11:21 PM)The Jom Wrote: This “don’t overpay” argument sounds eerily familiar. I think it was Brunson. And I think the numbers tossed around here were 18 and 20 million/year. If this board thinks about 12 million for Josh, that makes me think it’ll be at least 18.
The difference being Brunson had proven to be a badass and was an UFA.
Green has proven to have potential, but also a personality problem and he is a RFA.
I´m 100% fine with the Mavs making HIM prove it. This is a contract year, so if he will ever shed his deferral attitude it has to be this year.
And unlike some other lazy bastards, who just dial it up in a contract year, I have absolutely no fear, that he´d start mailing it in again, once he got paid.
He doesn´t have to be an Alpha, but something has to bring out the Beta in him, cause you can´t pay him big money being a Delta.
Also I think we might have a style problem with Doncic/Green. I don´t think it was a coincidence that Green had his best games without Luka, cause the pace was faster. Green is like a friend of mine, who is an amazing athlete with no basketball skill. He just ran us ragged with his soccer fitness. After a while he was doing ugly full court dribble lay-up drills on us with our tongues hanging out. In the halfcourt, undersized with his rudimentary dribbling and shooting skills he was mediocre at best.