03-16-2022, 08:17 PM
(03-16-2022, 06:38 PM)Omega_Supreme Wrote: Yeah I am totally with that and understand a person being against it or thinking it was a bad trade.
My reply at the time is and continues to be that it was the best trade we could get and better than what I expected to be honest. Fans typically over value their players but from the outside looking in KP is a bad asset.
The Mavs felt more comfortable gambling on two players that fit our system and turning them into positive assets making them easier movable pieces than KP. BTW Dinwiddie has made THJ expendable.
I predict Bertans will find his shooting as he gets more reps.
You guys had valid reasons to be against the trade but again the bigger picture makes it a good trade IMO.
Disagree on most of this.
Don't know how you could have expected worse. Dinwiddie was a neutral asset at best, and Bertans is a significant negative. I'm doubting we will be able to dump that contract this coming offseason even if we gave up our first.
Dinwiddie does not make THJ expendable, THJ already did that by himself.
I'm sure Bertans will probably regress some to better shooting, but it does not change the fact that he is a 3&D player without the D. That is not worth anywhere near his contract.
If we are looking at the bigger picture, they should have dumped KP in the offseason when they had cap space to replace him. Even if they didn't dump him, they could have signed Dinwiddie and a KP replacement in Holmes with cap space. They knew they needed playmaking and they signed THJ, Bullock and WCS. Then they finally trade for it, but leave a gaping hole in the frontcourt.
After the failures of the offseason, I would have rather waited until the next offseason to move KP when there would be more options. We got very lucky that Dinwiddie is fitting in as well as he is, and he wont play this well the entire season. I say lucky because if we thought it was going to workout this well we should have just signed him in the offseason.