12-18-2019, 10:25 AM
(12-18-2019, 12:07 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote:(12-17-2019, 11:29 PM)DanSchwartzman Wrote: Also Mav's fans: 3 of those 7th man types, a second rounder and a first rounder six drafts from now will surely get us a third starMaybe some of them are saying that. I haven't seen it. I have seen something like that for solid starters though. Who needs another star when we have 2 that are just fine and young? Upgrading those 2-3 7th man types for 1 starter and 1 serviceable player on a bad contract on the other hand, we can absorb the loss because of how many of those 7th man types we have.
This is largely the point I was making. Some seemed to miss the "In all seriousness, though" qualifier. I was being as tongue-in-cheek as Dan, in a sense.
And yes, I believe it is in strict terms impossible - at least, prior to 2021 if they plan powder it as so many here want and expect them to do - for the MBT to improve this roster in an appreciable way without one or two significant trade ***wins***, as in, "wow, the Mavs came out like bandits," as in, like the Porzingis trade, the Juwon Howard trade, the RLF/Van Exel trade, the Jamison trade, or the Josh Howard trade. As in, get out of here with that horse puckey that I'm talking in terms of fairy tales. It hasn't happened once, it's happened many times.