02-07-2020, 07:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-07-2020, 07:09 PM by Scott41theMavs.)
(02-07-2020, 07:01 PM)Davevoid Wrote: Uhm, ok...
I still don't get your impatience. None of the players who were traded yesterday would've moved the needle for the Mavs, which is fine regarding how bad we've been those last years. You can't just go from winning 25 games to being a contender in the span of an off-season.
Did you expect Luka to improve as much as he did this past offseason? The league (free agents) and the Mavs definitely didn't expect it. I'd say we're in an historically unique situation.
I think Gordon would have put us close to contention if we could have pried him away, but that wasn't realistic now with the Isaac injury and the Magic's own playoff push. And I didn't expect *contention* in this year's playoffs, but I did expect *seriousness* in this year's playoffs. A 5-1-2 rotation indicates a lack of seriousness about the playoffs. Moreover, I see it as absolutely necessary that Wright or Brunson is gone prior to next year's training camp (for a good return of course). They're cannibalizing each other's minutes and roles, and I prefer Curry (who jostles against both) to either of them.
I think that if the Mavs don't field a team to which they have added a 3rd-or-4th-best-guy-on-a-contending-team player next year, then they're punting again, at which point it's hard to see how Luka doesn't start to get ***quite*** antsy.