ampd wrote:What I mean is that, for example, Roy HIbbert would have been a great pickup for a team like the Bobcats. But you don't really ever see those teams even rumored to be making max offers to guys like that because there just isn't any positive in making the offer and then either being refused or having it matched when the chances of it working are so low, but there is a negative perception in making the offer when it doesn't work, as we are seeing with the offer that Hammond made to Teague.
Its rare for a team to make a 'reasonable' offer to another team's restriced FA because its futile, and it makes you look bad, on top of holding up the rest of your plans on a long shot. There needs to be some incentive for the other team not to match for guys to generate a lot of interest.
And what I'm saying is GOOD restricted free agents almost always get offered a deal, whether that be fair, above average or just maxed out.
When you start talking about guys who aren't necessarily good, they go without contracts. The biggest two examples of this are Jennings and Mayo. Both thought they were worth way more then potential suitors and could both have ended playing for much less then they wanted to coming off their rookie years. Guys like Teague or even Ryan Anderson accepted the fact that the market was down and took the best offer. Either teams aren't interested in Jennings, or he's still an idiot and asking for too much. The perception that teams are "scared" to offer RFA's because they will likely be matched and they'll "look dumb" is a horrible argument to why Jennings hasn't gotten an offer.
A guy like Hibbert did get the max, whats to say other teams wouldn't have offered it? When Hibbert says he's going to sign the max offer sheet with Portland when the memorandum ends what is the point of Charlotte even offering it? There is none. It isn't because Indy is just going to match it, it's because another team has already offered it and he said he is signing with them.
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