07-01-2022, 02:38 PM
(07-01-2022, 01:43 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I think @"omahen" was comparing them as "second best players" on their respective teams, which is valid, but to your point, I think it's a matter of perspective.
ISO shot creation to the level of Brusnon's skills is much more rare than I think the majority of this board realizes. It's true that elements of the rest of his game leave much to be desired, but he is elite at creating offense off of the dribble. Elite. When you have a ton of that, like the Mavs had last year, I guess you get desensitized to its import, but trust me, when you don't have any of it, you value it highly, and it can be difficult to acquire.
I get the complaints about Brunson's overall fit, but count me in the camp that believes this Brunson contract will be just fine in a couple of seasons. Possibly a bargain.
With the declining structure of his deal I agree with you. I don’t think it’s a bad deal at all.
I am doing my best to separate the Brunson situation from the rest of the Nico era. The JB situation was a 4 year failure with blame to be laid at several people’s feet; Cuban, Donnie, Rick C, Nico, JB, Rick B, the Rose’s, the NBA that pretends tampering is a thing, and probably an equipment manager or something.
The Mavs are the biggest losers in the whole ordeal and that is disturbingly the case way too often over the last decade.
But I don’t know that Nico could have saved it and while I bought the Rick Brunson/McMahon story originally I now think it was probably all a crock and this has been in the works for the past year.