8 hours ago
(9 hours ago)Jakeospikez Wrote: Mathurin could be worth taking a flyer on. Indy doesn't need him since they hit on Nembhard. He won't start over Haliburton/Nembhard/Nesmith and they won't pay him to be a backup. If the Mavs think he can be a starting wing here then they should go for him.
This is how I feel, too. I'm nowhere near as warm and fuzzy as I am about Risacher's potential fit, or as confident as I was the year before last about how well PJW would fit here, but I do think this is the type of gamble they'll need to take. Everyone wants the team to get younger, but they can't all be blue chip top-5 Cooper Flagg sure things. As some point, a GM needs to have a vision for a young player who's stuck behind other guys but who might flourish if presented with the right opportunity in the right situation. No idea if that's Mathurin or not, but he sure impressed me as a rookie - way more than Kuminga ever did, that's for sure.
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