02-06-2020, 04:28 PM
It is indeed last summer's free agency that directly makes this TDL a fail, and vice versa. The Mavs married the two intimately when they chose to keep money for a TPE instead of finishing the roster. And it objectively wasn't finished. That made the free agency an incomplete - perhaps the woeful failure could be rectified by virtue of getting something of value for the TPE. When they failed to do that with the deadline today, it turns the incomplete of the summer into an official F. It would be an F-- if not for the bargain contracts for Dodo and Maxi and the okay contracts for Curry and Wright. Yay, that makes us better than the Knicks were last summer. Still, we're on a pretty cataclysmic losing streak front office-wise since the KP acquisition. Thing is, when you draft Luka and trade successfully for KP, you give yourself a lot of rope with your fanbase.
As for missing Barnes, nah, he needed to be out of here, but if they weren't going to use the cap room they generated on starters, they would have been better off trading him for a player with salary who would have actually played in the starting lineup. Instead, we lost a starter in the Barnes deal, promoted a bencher, and didn't use any of the Barnes cap room for starters. Not a penny.
As for missing Barnes, nah, he needed to be out of here, but if they weren't going to use the cap room they generated on starters, they would have been better off trading him for a player with salary who would have actually played in the starting lineup. Instead, we lost a starter in the Barnes deal, promoted a bencher, and didn't use any of the Barnes cap room for starters. Not a penny.