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Would you pay that much for a starting center? Gafford is good enough to be a starter on several NBA teams including ours. Stats and minutes I think are relevant. Much of those statistics have been posted. He is still quite young and was being groomed as a starter in Washington.

Furthermore, the center position is rather tricky with a rookie who has to learn to stay out of foul trouble. I can't think of another position on our team so badly in need of an adequate rotation player (and one requested by Luka).

Yes, gladly, but it doesn’t matter if he’s good enough to be a starter because he’s not going to be one here. And if he is, then that blocks Lively, who we already know fits perfectly. But, he won’t. Luka straight up called him a backup center today.

This whole staying out of foul trouble nonsense is another example of people just going with groupthink and not actually watching the games, because foul trouble hasn’t really been a problem for lively this year at all. We were all worried about it before the season, myself included, but I can count on one hand the amount of games where foul trouble has actually been a factor for him. In fact, Kidd just recently did an interview in which he said he’d prefer lively be in MORE foul trouble, because it would mean he was defending the paint a little more aggressively. 

Now, the Mavericks have two centers, again, both of whom I like, and are headed towards the playoffs, where they don’t know yet if they’ll be able to play either of them.

Again, my argument isn’t against either one of the players acquired, both of whom I like, it’s just that I think allocation of resources should be considered, especially when those resources are starting to run out.