07-02-2023, 04:34 PM
(07-02-2023, 04:16 PM)omahen Wrote: I have been reading this kind of line for several offseasons nowIn the end, the goal is to actually get the right pieces in your team building approach. There are only so many right pieces out there. So you can go year after year skipping what could be the right pieces because they look too expensive, signing what are not the right pieces at market deals. Or you actually pull the trigger at some point.
The question for me is not so much the price/salary, but if a player is the right piece.
I think the players that would have been the right piece were out of our budget. I think Bruce Brown would have been great but he got a huge contract with Indiana. Dillon Brooks would have been a decent pickup for the MLE but he went for $20 million per year.
I am envious of the Lakers and the Suns who picked up quality rotation pieces on cheap (often minimum) contracts. I like Josh Okogie, Yuta Watanabe and Taurean Prince. I wish the Mavs would have offered one of them part of the MLE and I think we'd be in a better position today.
Those would all be backups though. As of today, the price of an adequate starter in free agency is more than the MLE.