Playoff Series Imponderables

[mavsluvr]

I think the Mavs wanted three things in the JR trade:

1) An expiring contract to have cap room for this summer.

Do you think he will opt in, frustrating this objective?

2) The asset of #36 and what became TBey.

3) A chance to see if JR could have the impact he had in his last year in MIA. 

Iirc, they hyped him as an answer at the starting position, and not just as a guy they were taking a flyer on. I guess it's possible that was just PR, but I had the impression they were expecting more than they got. 


I think his last year in MIA has been shown to be an outlier. I think Spoelstra (one of the very best coaches in the league IMO) was able to get more out of JR than RC was. I also think that JR just massively overperformed that year and he is just regressing to the mean.

It is looking that way, I am sorry to say.