IZTOK DIAGNOSES DECLINE OF MAVS OFFENSE

[mvossman]

@"mvossman" you, yourself, said you had a hard time envisioning a good outcome to the DFS/Brunson situation.

You don't have to agree with this, and I'm sure there are 100 ways it could go that would be better than this, but if it comes down to these two, simple choices:

1) DFS/Brunson gone, KP here

2) KP gone, DFS/Brunson here

GIVE ME #2. I believe the Mavs would be a BETTER team in scenario 2 than 1. Either option is subtractive in nature, but again, we pretty much know he's not paying the tax next year, so...we have to pick the least of all the evils, right? 

If this can be accomplished by moving Powell/Bullock, or any other creative way, GREAT, but from reading your responses, I'm left thinking that you are somehow still invested in the Luka/KP dream. I am not. I am out on that. It's not going to work. It's a dead end. Wheel spinning. Waste of time. My enthusiasm for the team will be renewed the exact second he's gone, and I think his value must be at the highest level since the Mavs got him! Now is the time.

So I don't think that is the trade off.  I think in every scenario I have us keeping DFS.  Assuming we are staying under the tax, here are the options:

1) Trade Brunson/Powell for expiring, keep KP/DFS

2) Love the idea of Brunson/Bullock+ for kemba and our pick

3) Trade Brunson/KP for an overpaid quality player.  Not sure who this would be and we would still need to make room for DFS

4) trade KP for mostly expiring??  Who is going to do this?  Not sure if this is possible.

A lot of this depends on what we can get in these trades.  I know Brunson is an asset and I don't think KP is.  I also am not sure Brunson stays here regardless of cost.  I think he is a flight risk, or a risk of costing more than 15 mil a year.  Because of this, he is generally the guy I have going out.