2019-20 Mavs News

[ItsGoTime]

@"mavsluvr", Isaac Harris expressed something similar to your post. The one player that he thought that the Mavs would pounce on if they could muster a reasonable offer was Jrue Holiday.

Most posters here are offering multiple firsts, 2nds, AND young players for Jrue Holiday.


Why blow the entire asset chest on an oft-injured, good-not-great guard?

I understand what you're saying here.

This is what is so frustrating about our offseason. We signed four players to excellent contracts given their ability levels - DFS, Maxi, Seth, and Wright. We had the money to go out and get two more players of that level. Instead, we have a TPE, which given our history with those, is likely to expire without incident (banghead). The Mavs are in a dangerous position. They have three, or maybe four holes (in the ten-man rotation, because it's looking to me as time goes on that Justin is *not* a playoff rotation player) to fill. Any trades they make beyond TPE + seconds or Lee + seconds is going to create more holes as well as straining chemistry. Those holes won't be able to be filled in-season, and will be difficult to fill in the offseason depending on the contract situations the players we traded for created. If we had those two more 7th-man guys, we might have some trouble distributing minutes, but we wouldn't have nearly as many concerns about roster improvements in one area hurting it somewhere else.

We don’t need a 10 man rotation in the playoffs. We need an 8 man rotation with spot/burst minutes for the rest. The 3 off the bench should be a big, wing and guard. Minutes for the 8 go up. JJ is a part of the 10 man regular season rotation. I myself don’t mind cutting into that 10 man rotation for the right player that will be a part of the 8 man and especially the 5 starters. 

There have been those that talk about the FO plays the long game. Trading for players that have the chance to disrupt chemistry now but are better in the long run is this strategy.

Side note: I still don’t get why people talk about saving money for 2021 without having any rebuttal to the many times that strategy has been debunked.