02-10-2024, 04:40 AM
(02-09-2024, 07:05 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Man, I have to stop checking in with people’s opinions of these trades. The guys from Dunc’d On are some of my favorites. They understand the cap, the rules, are comfortable dealing in advance stats, but also clearly watch pretty much every single NBA game that ever happens and so the they always have educated opinions about these players. They trashed the Mavs’ moves even more than others.
“Several more arrows going out of the quiver, with no championship-level starters coming in”
“They added two more seventh men to a team full of seventh men and paid multiple firsts to do it.”
“I guess maybe Gafford is an ok defender, but then again he is the center on the league’s worst defense. He can’t defend in the post and fouls way too much.”
“Washington is an offensive upgrade to Williams, but is he going to hit more of the standstill shots? Are they actually going to use the things that he can do better than Williams?”
“They now don’t control their pic for basically a four year block, and you have to imagine that at least one of those years will include a top 10 pick, unless they’re able to retain Luka for that entire time, which these moves make me less sure of.” (Other guy) “Agreed.”
On and on and on. I am getting thoroughly depressed listening to this stuff. The Lowe Post didn’t like the moves much, either.
I think we might’ve just witnessed the nail in the Luka Doncic era coffin.
We could flip Green + Washington + Gafford to the Bulls for Beal Lavine right now. Are the same experts going to wank themselves into oblivion over our big three?
Washington was averaging 14/5/1/0.5/0.3 before the trade for the only losing franchise he has ever known. Three years later he´s a two time All-Star.
Sorry I got my numbers messed up. That was Lauri on the Bulls. The numbers were so similar, I got confused. yeah yeah I also ignored the percentages
The real question is whether Kidd and his staff are up to the task. Maybe the Mavs are not the most talented talented team in the league, but if we had Spoelstra, I´d put my money down.
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