(11-03-2025, 01:53 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: According to Timmah at ESPN Flagg and Klay are the two players with the worst plus/minus in the league. I´d say you are not winning the Championships, when two of your starters have the worst on-court impact in the whole league. Yikes. Luckily we did not offer Derrick Jones the full mid-level, currently shooting 66% from the field and 45% from three to trade for Klay.

(11-03-2025, 02:11 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: I don't think Davis is going to work now at the 4.  I was really hoping it would.   I still want to see it for 40 games though.   This is an evaulation year and AD, Lively, PJ and Coop are your four best players.   You need to find out if they can all play together.   If not, AD is center and Lively is your 6th starter.  I think you could sell this to Lively, especially with his injuries.  At least for two years or so.   

(11-03-2025, 02:11 PM)Chicagojk Wrote:   This is an evaulation year and AD, Lively, PJ and Coop are your four best players.

(11-03-2025, 02:10 PM)mvossman Wrote: We didn't even have to offer him the full MLE.  He got 10 mil with the Clippers.  All we had to do was not offer someone else his starting spot.  I still contend this was the move that started the downward spiral (not surprisingly it was Nico first move after Linsey left and Cuban was pushed out).  We let our best perimeter defender walk (who we have never replaced) for a guy we could have mostly replaced with the Timmy upgrade Grimes (who currently looks wildly better).

(11-03-2025, 01:53 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: According to Timmah at ESPN Flagg and Klay are the two players with the worst plus/minus in the league. I´d say you are not winning the Championships, when two of your starters have the worst on-court impact in the whole league. Yikes. Luckily we did not offer Derrick Jones the full mid-level, currently shooting 66% from the field and 45% from three to trade for Klay.

(11-03-2025, 03:11 PM)F Gump Wrote: Nico is not who you want making roster-building decisions.

The depressing part is that, if you think the Mavs need to make a trade or 3 to have a better roster, Nico will be the one evaluating what to do and negotiating with an expert GM on the other end (all of whom are eager to trade with him, in light of how he gets raped and will think he won, when he trades).

Unfortunately, the one person in the NBA world who is even dumber than Nico is Dumont, who is so stupid that he has let Nico convince him that the Luka trade and its outcome isn't even Nico's responsibility, but rather is Dumont's. Good grief.

Dumb and Dumber.

(11-03-2025, 03:09 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Don´t take it is a personal dig. I´m just sick and tired of people giving Nico and the owners this out.

It was a "we win the title"-year last year, this year and next year. 

No evaluation this, if it goes right that. No this franchise traded Luka F´n Doncic for a bum and said we will win championships.

(11-03-2025, 02:11 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: I don't think Davis is going to work now at the 4.  I was really hoping it would.   I still want to see it for 40 games though.   This is an evaulation year and AD, Lively, PJ and Coop are your four best players.   You need to find out if they can all play together.  

(11-03-2025, 03:17 PM)Smitty Wrote: I think he means that since Kyrie tore his ACL shortly after the trade and is out at least half of the year this season, then it's hard to say the team is considered a contender at the moment. I don't think the Mavs are better with AD and Max, with Kyrie being the lead guard... but we have yet to see it. I think 99% of Mavs fans all agree that it was a terrible trade.

(11-03-2025, 03:57 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Part of the Luka/Grimes trade were to acquire two injured players in AD/Martin, which then forced a burden on Kyrie that significantly contributed to him tearing his ACL. Kyrie was not build for that kind of physical responsibility. When the Mavs went to the finals Kyrie basically played a half per game. He was resting in the first half. Anyone with half a brain knew that Kyrie would crumble under that physical responsibility. If he did not get hurt, his legs would have been completely gone by the time of the play-offs.

You guys seriously expect Kyrie to just come back from an ACL tear at age 33 in record time and immediately average 30/10 to dig them out of at least 5-6 games under .500. Also what stops the other team from just throwing full court presses and double teams at Kyrie? All the other bricklayers on the Mavs.

This is already over.

(11-03-2025, 04:02 PM)Smitty Wrote: Who are you guys? No, I don’t expect Kyrie to come back and average 30/10. I do think they’ll look a lot more competitive if/when Kyrie, AD, and Lively play. As a fan of the Mavs, I’d like to see it on the court at the very least.

(11-03-2025, 04:07 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote:  So your bar is: If everybody is healthy we might be as good as the Grizzlies, Blazers and Kings.

(11-03-2025, 02:10 PM)mvossman Wrote: We didn't even have to offer him the full MLE.  He got 10 mil with the Clippers.  All we had to do was not offer someone else his starting spot.  I still contend this was the move that started the downward spiral (not surprisingly it was Nico first move after Linsey left and Cuban was pushed out).  We let our best perimeter defender walk (who we have never replaced) for a guy we could have mostly replaced with the Timmy upgrade Grimes (who currently looks wildly better).

(11-04-2025, 08:46 AM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: https://dallashoopsjournal.com/p/kevin-durant-cooper-flagg-potential-dallas-mavericks-houston-rockets-nba-news/


Quite the endorsement of CF from KD

(11-04-2025, 12:26 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Any surprise teh Mavs have played the top 3?

https://x.com/CBAMavs/status/1985741164532908211/photo/1

(11-04-2025, 11:32 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: It's so obvious. The dude is playing out of position, and even if we agree that's a good move in the long run (not sure I do, but it might be), we need to be patient as he literally reinvents his game on the highest level in basketball. I cannot believe folks here are turning on him already. If people expected him to be able to play PG competently right out of the gate...IN THE NBA...that says more about those people than it does about Flagg.