03-14-2020, 01:57 PM
The trade deadline was Feb.7th and we traded Barnes Feb. 6th. The Mavs did what you are supposed to do, when you have no intentions to re-sign a "UFA", especially in a losing season. Get us much value as you can for him.
I´d have liked to extract one more young asset in the deal, of which the Kings had plenty (Labissiere, Giles, Mason III), but ultimately you can´t fault the Mavs for that deal. Jackson was the 15th pick, 23 year old at the time and in his 2nd season. He could have come good for the Mavs. You do this often enough one of these "small" assets will come through. It´s a numbers game to a certain extent. The Mavs didn´t even play until recently.
Of course FA was disappointing to a large degree and already confirmed that the Mavs are not that good of an outside talent judge (especially when it comes to career trajectories/stages), unless it´s plain obvious. They are pretty good and fast, determining whether a player is good or not, once they have seen them up close for a few months. Probably knew Roby sucked two weeks into SummerLeague.
In FA though even all the missed targets largely turned into below expectation players very quickly like Dwight Howard. Between Howard switching teams so often, having Powell and signing washed-up guys that rejected us in their "prime, I´m not 100% sure whether Howard played for the Mavs or not.
I´d have liked to extract one more young asset in the deal, of which the Kings had plenty (Labissiere, Giles, Mason III), but ultimately you can´t fault the Mavs for that deal. Jackson was the 15th pick, 23 year old at the time and in his 2nd season. He could have come good for the Mavs. You do this often enough one of these "small" assets will come through. It´s a numbers game to a certain extent. The Mavs didn´t even play until recently.
Of course FA was disappointing to a large degree and already confirmed that the Mavs are not that good of an outside talent judge (especially when it comes to career trajectories/stages), unless it´s plain obvious. They are pretty good and fast, determining whether a player is good or not, once they have seen them up close for a few months. Probably knew Roby sucked two weeks into SummerLeague.
In FA though even all the missed targets largely turned into below expectation players very quickly like Dwight Howard. Between Howard switching teams so often, having Powell and signing washed-up guys that rejected us in their "prime, I´m not 100% sure whether Howard played for the Mavs or not.