ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

[DanSchwartzgan]

I don´t agree with FG often, but he must have been the earliest to correctly assess that we are done for the summer and that Cuban is simply just cheap now.

We have a decade of evidence and we refuse to accept the reality.

Outside of a minimum salary signing or a negative spending trade nothing will happen. With our talent pool finding a talent upgrade with a simultanious salary relief is virtually impossible to pull off.

I agree that FG was the first to identify the money saving opportunity that exists by running a 14 man roster plus two-ways plus 10 days until rosters have to be set.  It doesn’t mean the team won’t carry a 15th player into the playoffs, but there is is a substantial tax savings to not carrying even a minimum salary until you have to.

Whether it is cheap or strategic is debatable.  A number of teams are likely to carry 14 players this season.  It is an unintended consequence of the addition of two-way players and may have to be addressed in the upcoming CBA.  The players thought the two-way rule would add opportunities to be in the NBA.  But it may just trade 60 cheap jobs for maybe a dozen veteran minimum jobs that pay much much more.

We as Mav fans are hyper sensitive to this because we think we are missing a PG.  The issue isn’t the 15th player as a 3rd PG should probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of our 10th-12th man.  If we had that guy and had say Pinson and Dorsey as two-ways, I suspect there would be much less hand wringing about not filling the 15th slot.