2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[dirkfansince1998]

I wasn´t happy with the offseason but most signed role players are performing good and all of them have at least reasonable contracts. Some of them are clearly steals if you look at the current market. Especially Kleber.
On the other hand I was really angry with Donnie and Mark because they did not use the remaining capspace and decided to use the TPE instead. If my numbers aren´t completly off the Mavs had 11-12mio to work with and decided not to use it. They resigned their RFA early and punted on the opportunity to add one more rotation piece.
For example another 3&D wing or backup bigman.
As of now I will withhold my final judgement for another month and hope that they can turn the TPA into something useful.

Hopefully Cubes goes back into winning-over-profit mode at some point. The luxury tax aversion is still scaring me

I don´t even think that was the case when they made the decision. Just like me they probably did not expect Luka to be a top 10 player in the league this season. I thought the Mavs would fight for the 7th or 8th seed. They choose the "wait and see" approach. Being opportunistic isn´t a bad thing but personally I prefer a steady longterm asset management.

I think the biggest mistake was that they did not develop a backup plan for games without KP. They talked about load management and him missing games but failed to add a backup option that RC is willing to play.