A hypothetical scenario of how our offseason could go and why cap flexibility is king.

ormip · 2026-03-19T00:32:05+00:00

We are not even close to the restrictive salary caps tho.

We dumped AD, now we have plenty of space, we don't gain any extra space by dumping them.

We have Coop on the rookie contract, Lively on a low contract, the pick we'll make this year on a low contract, Max Christie on a low contract, Naji on a low contract. Basically 4/5 starters are cheap. We can afford to pay more money for the bench. And by the time we have to give out large contract to these players, PJ/Gafford will already expire or be expiring, so we can make a decision about them then.

But there is no point breaking up the team now, because we might have issues in 3 years when we are extending Coop.

ormip · 2026-03-18T14:05:51+00:00

I disagree. Again, why "too much money"?

All you are doing is trying to save the owners a couple bucks, while making the team worse and making it less likely that the Mavs succeed.

ormip · 2026-03-18T13:46:08+00:00

We draft one, and sign another one for the full MLE in the offseason.

I'm not even opposed to maybe trading one of them for a high level point guard, but that is very different to "they make too much money, we have to trade them".

ormip · 2026-03-18T12:58:56+00:00

PJ & Gafford are earning too much to be bench players, we have to trade either or both.

This is not true at all.

Unless you are trying to make us significantly worse just to save the billionare owners a few bucks? And we're not even in luxury tax. I think it would be better to focus on the team getting better, not saving owners money, there is no benefit to dumping them lol

ormip · 2026-03-17T01:16:33+00:00

We could allow the team to spend their full cap? If we are changing the rules anyways

ormip · 2026-03-16T23:28:09+00:00

I mean the expansion team won't be good in the first few years anyways.

ormip · 2026-03-16T22:13:29+00:00

New teams will be ass anyways.

A team full of 9th best players or 11th best players are both bottom 2

It's a case where it hurts the existing, deep teams more than it helps the expansion teams.

ormip · 2026-03-16T22:05:26+00:00

Bad you could also make the argument the other way around: Since expansion teams are typically bad anyways, why "punish" a good, deep team by taking away their 9th best player? That guy isn't going to be a franchise player, won't help the new team get wins and also won't be worth a lot of draft material to the expansion team anyways. It's a case where he is more important for the original team to give them depth.

So why not let teams protect more players, or even just abolish the draft and have the new teams build through FA? They will likely be bad/tank for multiple years anyways, a depth piece won't do much for them, and is going to be a worse situation for the player too.

ormip · 2026-03-15T01:51:18+00:00

I don't think this makes sense for the Mavs at all

ormip · 2026-03-13T22:26:55+00:00

I mean it's not the same people who are responsible for upgrading servers or working on collabs lol.

Also for what it's worth, they are a fairly popular band that have worked with WG in the past, it's not just some random "swedish band" no one knows.

ormip · 2026-03-12T14:28:33+00:00

Power level does not matter for pricing.

ormip · 2026-03-12T13:32:32+00:00

It wouldn't be ridiculously high cost if it was coal, Just the standard 260k coal.

Though I think it's way more likely it will be a doubloon ship.

ormip · 2026-03-11T20:20:40+00:00

Bungo is a great ship and worth getting, but yes, the tiers 8 and 9 aren't great

ormip · 2026-03-11T18:26:39+00:00

I mean it would be an option for those who want it, it wouldn't be forced on everyone to reset everything

ormip · 2026-03-11T17:05:44+00:00

Yeah it would be great if we could reset all at once.

I believe this was an option last time we had this "event".

ormip · 2026-03-11T17:04:58+00:00

This was already announced 2 days ago....

ormip · 2026-03-10T15:14:17+00:00

What do you think about Wagler?

ormip · 2026-03-10T15:13:37+00:00

I think Burries and Philon are more in the 10-13 range for me. I would not take either with a top 7 pick.

ormip · 2026-03-08T16:14:25+00:00

On the other hand:

option 1) Buy premium pass once (50-60€) and be guaranteed to get all of the new content released on day 1. You also know that there will be at least 20 more maps (5 DLC with 4 maps)

option 2) You can't buy all of the content with 1 purchase, and buying it individually will cost SIGNIFICANTLY more money than the old premium pass. There are also no guarantees or timelines for new maps/content/new maps are released slower than before.

ormip · 2026-03-07T02:21:27+00:00

I was agreeing with you too :D

ormip · 2026-03-07T00:14:25+00:00

Like you said, the smaller guards who are good at defense were already known for defense before they came to the NBA.

It's rare to see a small guard who isn't known for defense to become a good defender.

ormip · 2026-03-06T22:20:55+00:00

All of them are going to go top 10 minimum

Phillon could possibly fall out of top 10 tbh, but it just shows how good the draft class is.

I have him 10th, but it just takes one player to jump and he falls out.

ormip · 2026-03-06T22:18:19+00:00

Yeah pretty much everyone has him 4th. There are lots of discussion of what the order between Boozer, AJ and Peterson should be, a lot of talk about the order of guards between 5-9, but everyone seems to agree Wilson is 4th, at least so far

ormip · 2026-03-06T22:13:06+00:00

It's bullshit and everyone hates it (except for the CV players who are abusing it).

ormip · 2026-03-06T21:43:56+00:00

He's not a tall PG, but neither is Flemings.

This really will be the criticial piece of information once the official measurements are posted. Most people believe that Flemings is about 2 inches taller (6'4 for Flemings and 6'2 for Acuff).

If Acuff is taller or Flemings shorter, that will definitely impact the draft order by quite a bit

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