(12-18-2019, 08:38 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: To be fair, trade season did just open up and that's what all the news is about.
I don't actually begrudge the traffic in the trade threads. At the time of my comment I was just lamenting the lack of new reading material in the other threads. I was being selfish. I wanted a little Mavs fix before I went to sleep.
(12-18-2019, 07:28 AM)DanSchwartzman Wrote: It is absolutely a false dichotomy. I wanted to post in the other trade thread yesterday (mostly talk of Holiday and Turner), but couldn't bring myself to do it (until this morning) because some of the ideas were so outlandish. I like a good fantasy trade as much as the next guy, but come on. People miss DL's capology knowledge, but the other thing he brought to the board was a dose of realism when it came to trade ideas. I didn't always appreciate his approach, but his willingness to call a spade a spade tended to make people more thoughtful about their ideas.
To your point about the most active threads, I think we as fans find ourselves in an interesting and frustrating position. There is absolutely no agreement on what we need. A defensive wing? Another big? Should it be a veteran band aide? Of, a youngster to grow up with our unicorns? There is absolutely no agreement on who is expendable. In fact, it changes from game to game. A week ago Curry is a dog. Two games later he is an indispensable cog. Almost everyone on the roster has had a stretch where they looked fantastic. The truth is we have a delicate balance that works pretty well. When you are a 55-ish (pace) win team, improvement is likely to be incremental and comes at some risk unless you have the ability to land KD like GSW did.
Timing is also a factor here. What we do now impacts flexibility in the summer. Given our ability to trade our first at the draft, we might be able to do something more impactful then. To me, we are a bit thin in the big rotation. Biyombo and Dieng and Henson and others have been mentioned. They would presumably come along with a small asset. But small assets can be combined with bigger assets later and we could use another six fouls in the front court in case any of Maxi, Powell and KP gets hurt for a week or two. Even turning the GSW #2 into a very late #1 would give us some flexibility to trade our own pick as we'd have a first to spare. That kind of thing seems a much more likely path than the incredibly disruptive 3 for 1's that were being proposed for Jrue yesterday.
Great description of the state of the Mavs roster. I'm also hesitant to make too much change to a roster that's wildly exceeding our expectations and still growing. If we do need different pieces down the road, and those pieces can be had via trade, I tend to think that the continued growth and success of our current roster will make all of our pieces more valuable. And gaining information on what exactly we have on the roster will help us make better decisions down the road. Additionally, I'm not interested in torpedoing this season through the collateral damage of a multi-faceted trade.
For all of what you said, and the reasons I reiterate, I'd let this season ride and see what these guys can do and become.