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[DanSchwartzgan]

Nobody has said that overtly, no. But, I'm getting the sense that some people think the team might be better with Beverly than it was with Brunson. In general, the opinion of Brunson seems to be changing remarkably quickly now that he's no longer a Maverick.

Good grief man.  Do we have to genuflect and speak in reverent tones every time we say the name to satisfy your sensibilities.  No one said overtly nor did they imply Beverley was better than Brunson.  I see no change in opinion regarding Brunson except in your mind.  I did say Beverley is a better defender than JB.  That is so highly defensible a statement it should be a given.  I also said it is impossible to expect our third guard to be a better defender AND be even close to JB in other areas.  If it were possible to find that guy, he’d be a max player and not available in a swap for Powell.

Brunson is gone…HE LEFT.   He plays for another team and right now I’m much more interested in looking for solutions for THIS TEAM that improve things from WHERE WE ARE TODAY.  Where we are today, as IGT said, is we need a third guard.  That we once HAD JB as one of three guards matters not one iota to figuring out what to do next unless you just want to wallow in self pity for the sake of wallowing.

How candidates for the job compare to Brunson is immaterial. The eventual addition will be our THIRD PG and the team won’t ask the same things of him it asked of Brunson.  Going forward, anytime I mention Brunson, please imagine I bowed and said enough positive things about JB so you can move on and think purely about the merits of Powell for Beverley or whatever I’m proposing at the time.  I told you this was going to happen months before it did (and got criticized for trying to trade our second best player).  Just because I’m able to move on and think about next steps doesn’t make me a JB hater. It makes me someone who is able to live in the current reality.

As to the question about the team promoting the idea Brunson wasn’t a long term fit…Check out the 22:10 mark on the 8/5 Mav’s Moneyball podcast.  Below is what Kirk Henderson had to say.  He’s closer to the situation than me and if he says team officials are promoting this, then I have no reason to doubt him.

“The Mav’s didn’t complain (about tampering).  They’ve been really busy spent on letting us Maverick’s fans know that Jalen Brunson wasn’t a good long term fit and we should probably stop complaining”.  “Which, in a 50,000 foot view is potentially right, but it still doesn’t back away from the fact that they still screwed it up”.