02-09-2026, 09:03 AM
(02-09-2026, 05:59 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Right now I think the Mavs have a few tasks:
1. TANK as hard as possible.
2. Extract maximum value from the draft in form of BPA. That could mean you trade down from #1 to #2, cause Utah badly wants Dybantsa and you can still get Peterson at #2. It could mean trading down from #3 to #4, cause you think Wilson will be better than Boozer. But BPA pick decisions need to be made.
3. Use the TPE.
4. Use the MLE.
We have two major question marks in our starting five with Irving and Lively. We should not do anything major, until we know about them. Everything changes based on their health alone.
I’m actually in agreement with 1-4. That includes the ‘possibility’ of trading down. At this point you can’t exclude it because you don’t know what the offers might look like or which teams are a slot or two below us and what they might have to offer.
It is the same thing with the way I constructed optionality around the third stringers on my depth chart. It COULD be a player. It COULD be the 30th overall pick. We have no idea what teams might give us to offload $21mm of salary or what they might give us for Gafford or PJ. We also have no idea whether a sweetener might be needed to get someone even more valuable that we’d be able to get without the sweetener. Since we have no idea, it makes sense to me to maintain flexibility in my assumptions. If you are so married to the idea that keeping the 30th pick is mandatory, feel free to build your own depth chart that reflects the intransigence of that ridiculous position.