07-13-2024, 01:26 PM
(07-13-2024, 10:20 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: For an interesting thought exercise, go back and find the original thread regarding the signing of DJJ. Crickets. There was very little reaction in the moment. No one knew back then what we were getting. When people put together their depth charts as we headed toward preseason, people had DJJ as the 3rd and sometimes 4th PF. Not a wing and a mile from being a starter.
Point being, the only reason we can list Marshall as a second string 3/4 is because we saw how that role played out for a year. But, at this point last year, almost no one had a vision for what ended up happening. Some watched almost the entire regular season and still thought he couldn't defend the POA. Are we confident that our prognostications about what Marshall can't do on this team are any better than our prognostications about DJJ a year ago?
To be honest, I feel like this response misrepresents my position. I did not claim to know what we are getting with Marshall. In fact that is my entire point. He is an unknown commodity. The fact that DJJ turned out better than expected does not mean that Marshall will. It’s an argument that he might, which I already stipulated. DJJ was the Mavs first option, and I wish he had signed the offered contract, but I did not prognosticate that Marshall would be worse, only that I preferred the known to unknown.