(04-28-2020, 10:58 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: He's an above average playmaker, but this team isn't dying for playmaking with Luka taking the lions share, and with Wright/Barea as backup.
Thanks for the input. He would definitely not be a PG, I am thinking as secondary facilitator on the wing, playing behind DFS. While Luka is of course an alpha plamaker, Wright is certainly not it.
(04-28-2020, 10:58 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: We already have a defensive minded forward who can't shoot a lick in MKG, and he's barely costing this team anything. Anderson contract starts at 9mil per year and runs through 2022. Is he really worth 6 million more each year than Jackson?
Offensively, he is certainly better than MKG and he actually costs just 4 mil than Jackson next season. The general idea of course is to get an asset for Jackson whom we are moving from anyway and (if we believe we can) increase Anderson value. But to be honest, I am also not a fan of his game.
(04-28-2020, 10:58 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: And we don't know how much we need to save given the salary cap is definitely going down next year.
I would say this is far from certain. It is of no one interest to have a one year crash of cap and then back to normal in 2021. So I am pretty sure this year loss will be offset over a couple of seasons without really lowering the cap for 2020.
Let me just clarify my positions here. I am not discussing what I think Mavs will do and how specific moves fit into what I think their plans are. I am discussing what I would do if I was Mavs. Of course Mavs have way more information, so that's why my ideas might be different basing on different assumptions.
IMO, I have to say that the 2021 free agent market is an illusion as far as max players are considered:
- I am 99% sure LeBron, CP3, George, Kawhi and Griffin will excercise their PO
- I am 99,99 % sure Davis will remain a Laker
- Lowry, Conley, DeRozan, Jrue and Hayward are not max players in 2021 due to their age or skill set
- the only max worthy players in that year are Gobert (bad fit anyway), Oladipo (if he comes back to his preinjury form) and The Freak. Smart teams will either resign them or trade them at 2020/21 season TDL. I consider Utah, Indiana and Milwaukee as very smart teams.
- RFA max guys like Mitchell will resign with their current teams or will be traded
That being said, it becomes pretty obvious cap space for a max guy is not really needed. There are a bunch of up to 20 per worthy guys like Fournier, Oubre, Richardson, Winslow, THJ and Scroeder (plus all the vet guys mentioned before), but there will be also a huge number of teams with cap space competing for them.
Mavs already have 84 mil of committed salary in 2021. If THJ is able to repeat this season, he should definitely be resigned at current level of money, which already puts Mavs way below the max cap space.
Based on this I am ignoring the 2021 cap space and focusing on building asset base in 2020, because it looks like tradeable assets will be far more needed than cap space. This allows us further moves at TDL or in the summer of 2021. I think we desperately need more contracts. If Giannis miracoulously decides to come to Dallas by free agency, we can always orchestrate a SnT or clear cap space. Saving cap space because I hope I will be able to convince one of the few to come to Dallas, is a bad strategy imo.