2021-2022 MAVS NEWS: 4th in West | WCF loss [ARCHIVED]

[TXBamanut]

Assuming there is no limitation who they can call.

I think it is highly unlikely this guys will play. And even if they do, their couple of minutes will not make or break the season. Mavs could for example decide to stop playing suboptimal lineups and it would have much bigger impact than a couple of end of the bench guys.

What Mavs got is a huge dissapointment from Hunt and Jones, who thought they might make it to Mavs sometimes in the future. The call up, even if just to warm the bench, would mean a world to them, I am sure. It is also part of player development. Some smart teams (Toronto, Miami) have guys stashed in g-league for a couple of years working with them and developing them, getting several useful rotation players from non-drafted FA, always providing a cheap way to fill the end of roster. Mavs prefer handing out BaE to vet min guys like Brown, Bobi and similar.

That's one person's opinion, but it's far from certain.  We don't know what the Mavs got.  We also don't know what their evaluation is of the players...the jury is out on the current regime on their track record of evaluation, but they could like Jones or maybe not.  You and I are fans, they are professionals.  We spout opinions and pretend it's facts, and they actually create facts (Pinson is a Mav) and actually respond to facts as they see it in their business.  We just opine about it.

The difference between your opinion and mine is that I'm just looking at some data and stating one perspective.  I'm not pronouncing judgment on "what the Mavs got" and "some smart teams" and "always".   The smart team of Miami's only championships were made off a good draft pick of DWade and a pile of veteran minimum signings and on major FA acquisitions and vet min contracts.   

Teams do both strategies and loads of different percentage combinations of draft, development, trade and FA signing to win...there is no one way to do it.  Miami and Toronto have both signed min contract FAs in their heyday.  Miami's only championships have come on the back of major FA collusion signings and a pile of vet min contracts, so let's not revise history like they just stash 2nd round picks and develop star after star from the G League.  

Personally, I think you have to be good a several areas or just get extremely lucky, and honestly, you have be lucky no matter how good you are.  I think signing Marquiss Chriss and Theo Pinson, while Hunt and Jones, actually keep on getting minutes and developing, hopefully filling out the holes they have that are keeping them from the league now, is a much better plan than saying "hey, you guys stop playing and just come watch the game up here on the bench." 

I think taking any and every conceivable opportunity to throw shade at the front office is lame.  They deserve criticism for things for certain, but this isn't one of them and what I think is highly unlikely for sure is that Carlik Jones and Feron Hunt become the key to a championship at all.  Good for them if they do, but the best for them, at this point, is probably is to keep getting minutes and working.