That’s probably a good thing for Indiana in the long run if the plan is to keep CC. Mitchell is a great shooter and scorer, but her defensive issues at SG, next to CC’s defensive issues, cause issues for the team. They really need a 3 and D SG running alongside CC.
I also feel that some of these teams throwing out the 20% of the cap multi-year contracts to players are going to regret it in the future considering the hard salary cap. Two of those on a team and you’ve got almost half your salary committed to 2 players, with needing at least 9 more players on the roster.
There’s a few players like Aja, Steward, etc. that are worth that. But there’s been a lot of money thrown around towards players that don’t deserve that much when considering the salary cap.