03-17-2022, 12:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-17-2022, 12:39 AM by Omega_Supreme.)
(03-16-2022, 08:17 PM)mvossman Wrote: 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.
I watch a lot of basketball to know that Washington was a dumpster fire this year. They gave John Wall a super max contract so lets not act like they are a stable organization.
I watch a lot of eastern conference basketball and I knew that Dinwiddie was better than his showing and just needed a new environment so unlike you I thought he was a undervalued asset and I thought KP was an overvalued asset.
Even if it was a 1 for 1 trade of Dinwiddie for KP I still love that swap. Bertans is just a sweetener and shooters are always well paid and often hard to find in today's game. Both fit major needs with our team.
As for THJ I disagree with you there as well. You don't walk away from THJ with Brunson being a unknown without Dinwiddie. Dinwiddie is insurance against Brunson and pushes THJ down the pecking order making room for Josh Green.
Like I said we can agree to disagree but the Mavs won the trade and KP was injured for another 2 weeks and why should we take another chance on him not getting injured again.
SMH, I commend the MBT for finally moving on.