Non Knee-Jerk Takes

[SatnamSingh]

However:

1. It is a fact that Mavs were giving up best player in the deal. As others have pointed out, Dinwiddie and Bertans both carry significant injury risk with them. Even before the trade, some analysts have pointed at Bertans as worst contract in the league. Dinwiddie contract is no pearl either and they are both on a down year. So Mavs were trading best player with similar money owed to a team, that is desperate for relevance (not tanking team). How well will those players perform for Dallas is basically irrelevant in this discussion, as is future flexibility they allegedly provide. Fact is, their trade value at this moment is very low. Based on all this, Mavs didn't get enough in return in this deal. The goal of trading KP was executed very poorly.

Nice summation of my problem with the deal.

After reading and listening to a lot of people in the last day, it seems people are placing some king of symbolic value on moving on from KP.  Like it signals a new direction for the franchise and we dont really care what the return was but we had to address the elephant in the room.  Maybe there is something to that idea that I'm not giving enough credit to.

Still seems like poor execution and asset management to me.