02-06-2020, 04:37 PM
(02-06-2020, 04:25 PM)hakeemfan Wrote:(02-06-2020, 04:18 PM)omahen Wrote:(02-06-2020, 04:07 PM)fifteenth Wrote: You don't get to live life that way. You can't peer into the future and find out whether a trade is worth it down the road.
But it does work exactly that way. These guys in FO are paid huge money to take the right decisions and maximize value.
While trading Barnes might have been the right decision, failure to capitalize on that was a failure which puts a question mark on whether the decision was correct in the first place.
We did go after Kemba. If that had worked out it would be a different story. Just because they could not close the deal you cannot say the plan was bad. If they had made absolutely no attempt to do anything with that money, then yes one can blame them. One can also blame them for not having a good plan B when Kemba spurned them. But the HB trade itself would have looked great if Kemba took the offer they gave him.
They had all kinds of options after Kemba - they could have split the $11 mil in caproom they had left on, say, two of the guys they were targeting this TDL - RHJ and Burks? Could have wrapped those guys up for $5 mil a year easily. Think about how much better our roster would be - and our trading options - had we done that. But noooooooooo. I'm wondering if there aren't some sort of issues between the MBT and a handful of the agents. It made no sense for those players not to come knocking for the Mavs' cap money. They and their agents must not have liked something about the team, or the Mavs shooed them off, moronically. If the MBT could make nicey-nice with Duffy, then surely they can patch those relationships up as well.