(02-07-2020, 09:52 AM)cjeter24 Wrote:(02-07-2020, 09:15 AM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: Mavs have to watch the Philly situation. It´s getting worse every day. Imploding locker room combined with lack of on court success. If they don´t make the ECF this year they have to change something. Meaning that they have to trade Embiid or Simmons. A few weeks ago I would have said that they keep Embiid. Now I am not sure anymore.
This is a good example of why the mavs might win playing the long game here. I’ve been saying it since last summer. The mavs are accumulating assets after having none left with the KP trade while finding quality players on value deals. It’s turned into a really solid team already while maintaining flexibility. Yeah I wish they would have signed this guy or that. But they clearly have a vision for the type of guy they want too. That’s why you didn’t see us after a guy like Morris.
But back to the original point. If the mavs continue on this path, chances are they are going to find a way to capitalize on one of this situations blowing up like Philly. Maybe it’s Beal. Maybe it’s McCollum. Maybe it’s Giannis in 2021. It could be a number of unthought of guys hitting the market. Who had westbrook and George trades even thought of at this point last year?
as ideal as that would be, I’m not sure anyone can say confidently that “chances are” we will get any of those guys. In fact, based this teams history, the chances are that we won’t get any of those guys and end up trading for guys around the same level as the guys we could have gotten this year. Maybe the options next year fit the what the Mavs are looking for more than this year, which I believe is relatively young roleplayers with potential to improve. It seems like they are content with Barea being our veteran presence. I don’t necessarily agree with this because I think you want vets at each position, to help the young fellas win in the playoffs, but only time will tell if the Mavs plan works out or not. Wouldn’t surprise me if they end up making more stupid excuses like they did this time, saying whiffing on green twice was the reason they made no moves.
Also i don’t think anyone is upset that they made no moves. It’s because they wasted the value of Lee’s expiring and the rest of the TPE. Using that could have brought in more assets to help us win now, and/or use in trades next year. It was a bad call from all angles. I personally did not want to trade anyone else outside of Jackson, barring something crazy.