2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[JamesConway]

Saric has always been a player I'd love to see play for the Mavs. With his BBIQ, shooting and size he'd be a very helpful bench player who could be plugged into almost any lineups. I like the idea of him & DFS at the 3 & 4, he could play alongside KP or Klever as a PF/C tandem, he can play with rim runners like Powell/WCS. He'd be a great 5th to 7th guy for almost any roster.

I'd certainly offer the full MLE, if it's enough great. If he demands more then I guess we'd have to move on.

If you look at the statistical study in the thread "What We Have", the point I'm mainly making is we have a 1, 2, 2, 5, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7 among our top 9 rotation players.  It makes for a really good bench compared to teams forced to play 9th and 10th man types in their rotation.  It puts us at a disadvantage compared to starting units.  We are playing 5th man types against other teams 3rd and 4th man types.

The issue I have with Saric and Crowder is they simply add to the stable of 5th/6th man types and don't get us any closer to another obvious starter.  I understand fit and role are important and that this is an imperfect way to look at roster building.  But your weakest link is important in games like basketball and soccer.  I'm all for adding guys like this and Kennard, but neither gets us where I'd like to see us go.

With all that said, the Mav's have a history of getting increased production out of players others had given up on.  Three teams gave up on Marion before he got here.  Brandan Wright was the original Powell.  How freakin valuable was McDermott in his short time here.  I'm not sure we are well equipped as casual fans to understand how scheme and spacing might rejuvenate someone's career (a fancy way of saying I reserve the right to be wrong on some of these names that I'm luke warm on).  BTW, I've talked about combining 18 and 31 to move up to the 13/14 range before.  If it gets us a higher level guy that can eventually be that 3rd/4th starter, I'm all for it.  J-Mac is the guy who has caught my eye.  Tankathon and NBADraft don't agree on much, but both have him just outside the reach of the Mav's slot at 18.  If you can draft someone who you think has great upside 2-3 years from now, then I'm better off with these MLE short timers to fill the gap in the mean time.

- I'm with you in regards to the need of getting guys who are better than nr 5. Unfortunately I don't see us getting higher talented guys than Kennard with the limited assets we currently have. The mix of him individually as an oncourt-upgrade + his RFA/full bird rights in '21-status helps teambuilding-wise and that's what I like the most. Also I'm relatively high on him, probably more than others. I could see him become a JJ Reddick-caliber player here given where he's already at at his current age. And then on top of that he also brings some playmaking skills to the table.

- I'd love to make the #18 selection too though. I'm probably 80/20 in favor of just keeping #18 in general. Kennard would be one of the few guys who I view as realistic targets and players who I like enough to make a deal.

- Moving up is something we always should be looking at and I'm very much in favor of a move like that if they have a guy they like who will got a few spots too early. I'm just not sure about McDaniels as a prospect, but the tools are certainly extremely exciting. Looks a lot like Ingram the way he moves.

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Ah and regards guys like Crowder/Saric: none of those guys will put us over the top but I'd attempt to maximize the MLE. Imo Saric would be quite the haul here if he's even attainable for that little.

If he's not part of the long-term future then the least we could do is use the MLE to create another asset. As of now I think all of Seth, Maxi and Delon are on decent to good-deals. That would be the goal for me here as well.