I think if we were able to comfortably meet Myles where he was at we would have. Do you really think Boals went all in on Mitchell and Ike (your fave) and made the choice to stop pursuing Myles? Doubt it, based on needs. He had a lot of suitors driving up his price.
I think it's entirely possible that Boals gave money to existing players to stay, gave some money to Mitchell and Ike to come, and may have come up a little short on Myles as a result because he misread the market.
How a coach allocates what money he does have is an important part of the job now. He's got to spend it wisely, and I think the assessments here tend to lack a lot of nuance and boil down to "we can't afford that guy" or we can. We spent money last year, but none of us really know how or where it went.
I would say the market demand dictates whether or not we can afford a particular player. Just like most verticals. In the case of Myles, we made it to his top 3 or 5 (I can't remember the exact). This was after we already brought in Ike and Shereef.
I don't think Boals misread the market, but I think Myles got to a price point that we couldn't afford based on his demand and what we had available in funds. Which is what I was initially implying about Braun.
We experienced what the market can do to the cost of premium size, even from a mid-major. We weren't able to go to that level a year ago for whatever reason. It was just out of financial reach.