I learned in my life, that when the opposite side does not want to budge an inch or even states new and newer conditions/picks/money, is in most cases because: 1. they think you have no other choice but to unconditionally surrender or 2. they do not really want to make any deal with you but are just producing additional noise to help them with their other plans which definitely does not include you. Yes, I mean Markannen and Dragic situation, among others.
Also, the market has spoken. The most desired/best/most needed players have already signed their contracts. And market is this way silently saying, that the leftovers/non signed players, are basically not needed, not wanted, too risky, ego problems, have self inflated values/price or trading them woul have to be almost esoterically and occultishly complicated and convoluted . That is why those players are leftovers, be it Simmons, Markannen or even Dragic. And also much more a possible post-trade hangover. It is not a coincindence that Schroeder signed for 5,9 mil instead of his imagined value about 120 mil or so (and will be constantly unhappy about it), and that Beverly was traded twice in a week.
Mavs have done, as it is my very amateurish opinion, a good job with wings and big men (of which they have a surplus). They failed to find a real back up ball handler for Doncic and we will just have to live with it.
So, I have stopped thinking about Markannen and comp., and rather hope that KP will have a good year and that the reserve pgs will not get injured but rather grow up player-wise. Nobody expects this to be a championship year, so let mavs build and gel the future dangerous group of players which will need, in a year or so, basically mosty an additional good ball handler, and in one year mavs are and will be able to get him.
As all my "knowledge" is mostly from this site and some other sport sites, I could be wrong. So take this as only an amateurish rumination of a side watcher...
Also, the market has spoken. The most desired/best/most needed players have already signed their contracts. And market is this way silently saying, that the leftovers/non signed players, are basically not needed, not wanted, too risky, ego problems, have self inflated values/price or trading them woul have to be almost esoterically and occultishly complicated and convoluted . That is why those players are leftovers, be it Simmons, Markannen or even Dragic. And also much more a possible post-trade hangover. It is not a coincindence that Schroeder signed for 5,9 mil instead of his imagined value about 120 mil or so (and will be constantly unhappy about it), and that Beverly was traded twice in a week.
Mavs have done, as it is my very amateurish opinion, a good job with wings and big men (of which they have a surplus). They failed to find a real back up ball handler for Doncic and we will just have to live with it.
So, I have stopped thinking about Markannen and comp., and rather hope that KP will have a good year and that the reserve pgs will not get injured but rather grow up player-wise. Nobody expects this to be a championship year, so let mavs build and gel the future dangerous group of players which will need, in a year or so, basically mosty an additional good ball handler, and in one year mavs are and will be able to get him.
As all my "knowledge" is mostly from this site and some other sport sites, I could be wrong. So take this as only an amateurish rumination of a side watcher...
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