02-06-2020, 04:02 PM
(02-06-2020, 03:46 PM)Baller AI Wrote: Nice try, the replacement to Barnes was Justin Jackson. We wasted the TPE from the Barnes trade so idk what you tryna say. This is on the Mavs and being pissed at them for mishandling this it fully justified. If I had known they wouldn't use the TPE, I wouldn't have wanted to trade Barnes.
We traded Barnes to get off his salary and to clean house. We accomplished that. No one ever thought that Jackson was Barnes' equal on the court. Regarding Jackson, he's not done. He still has room to grow, seems coach-able and could still be part of deals this summer. The TPE provided ammunition to deal. The fact that a deal didn't materialize doesn't mean that gathering ammunition was a bad idea. You don't make a bad deal just to make a deal just so you can say you used the TPE. No one gets to look into the future in order to aid their decisions in the present.
And anyway, why would a Pels fan care?