04-03-2023, 02:47 PM
(04-03-2023, 02:01 PM)loki Wrote: Great post. I pretty much agree with all of it except I'm more adamant about trading the top 10 pick for immediate help. Kyrie is already 31 and you might end up burning a couple seasons before your draft pick has developed.
I normally agree with the idea that if you have guys like Luka and Kyrie already onboard and the plan is to win now, you're usually better off trading picks. I think though that this may be one of the years Cuban is much more inclined to use the pick because keeping a rookie scale contract on the roster will help him financially. I also think because our biggest need is defense and rebounding that you're probably more likely to get that out of a rookie compared to playmaking or shot creation, there's been a lot of examples of that in recent years (See Mavs2021, I'm not as anti rookie contributor as you think!). I mentioned him in the previous post but Taylor Hendricks checks all the boxes of someone who would (should) start on this team tomorrow if he were available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzyM-LNaVcU
Every team in the league has a guy like this and we used to. He fits the big wing/small big mold who can guard everyone to a T. I wanted Vanderbilt bad after the Kyrie trade and this kid could fill that role immediately.