03-27-2021, 08:09 PM
(03-27-2021, 07:34 PM)hakeemfaan Wrote: I would not have given up a pick for Reddick. I like him as a player even at his age and with all the flaws on the defensive end. So it is not about him. Saying in this instance it is worth giving up that pick is exactly the reason why the Mavs have lost so many picks over the years. If that was a deal breaker then I am ok with Reddick not being here . I understand fully why many feel it is ok and it is mainly because we all know that the chances of the Mavs doing much with that pick are slim to none anyway. But that mindset has to change a pick at a time.
KL/Mavsluvr. I fully understand where you all are coming from but I want the team to be extremely stingy with picks unless you really believe the player you are trading for has a chance to be a long term keeper or a key piece in a championship run. Else IMO it is just throwing a pick away no matter how irrelevant you believe that pick is.
Always appreciate your thoughts, hakeem.
I would agree with your opinion on this particular pick if it were, like, a lottery pick. You clearly don't give up a high-value pick to get Redick for half a season. But you can't just lump in lottery picks and very low second-round picks like they were all the same.
Good teams commonly reach out for veteran rentals who might be able to give them a boost in the playoffs. As you know, it's not unusual -- it's what they do. For a front office to decide not to give their team a chance for help in the postseason in favor of preserving a pick in the back half of the second round would be a fireable offense in many cases. That's probably why Donnie was eager to dump Johnson's contract for whatever help he could find to show for it. I understand that you believe that Cuban should have instructed Donnie not to take that approach, but I think you get intellectually why a front office would have believed, as a take-it-or-leave-it choice, that they had to take it.