2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

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Trading away draft picks to dump bad contracts/mistakes would be such a Mavs thing to do. The Mavs give away draft picks like candy at a Halloween party. Its no wonder they never have any young talent to trade away when a disgruntled star is asking to be traded from his current team.

Almost like they didn't have DSJ to get KP. I understand that trade was more about clearing capspace than young talent, but Smith was a selling point to their fans. I get it, I want more young assets too, but young assets don't get you further in the playoffs, unless you hit pretty big in which case they're not assets, they're a part of your core. We also don't need disgruntled stars, we need to surround Luka and KP with high-end 3nD guys.

Also I don't get this boards fascination with OPJ, the guy is extremely overpaid and hasn't been healthy for the last 4 years.

I don't get this board's fascination with getting more offense first guys to add to the offense first guys we already have, we all have our convictions. Yes, OPJ is extremely overpaid for 1 more year. After that, he will be able to be signed to a more on-par contract to his contribution as then is when he won't be able to sell any upside in negotiations. 

As far as not being healthy in the last 4 years, I get the last 2 years, but before that he played 77 and 80 games. The 2 seasons before that he played 75 and 74 games. He was rehabbing for most of this year so his numbers dipped quite a bit. I think he's a defender that is on par with RoCo, or at least really close to it. That is why I want him, since we didn't get RoCo himself. He also has the ability to replace THJ's 15ppg on offense with a possibility of doing even more. He's for sure the prize in the trade.

Also Satoransky and Young are not assets to anyone.  Read Chicago's board's to find how much of an asset they think these players are.  They would give you these players for a pack of gum.

I see Satoransky as a lesser version of Bogdanovic (Bogdan). He isn't a slouch on defense and he's a good 3 shooter (hasn't showed that in Chi where there is noone to help get him wide open looks like he had in Was where he was extremely good for 2 years). He also is a good distributor who can spell Luka for moments to just play decoy and catch his breath. Sure, he can't be a #2-3 guy on a team like he's being asked to be in Chi, but he can be a 5th starter to do the things asked of him above. Kamm has championed him in the past and I trust his judgement on most things.

Young is being championed by Dan, and most anyone Dan likes, I'm usually on-board with. I will say, Chi hasn't been kind for either of their careers, but their careers before Chi was solid, so maybe that is more on Chi than it is on them as players?

As far as what their fans think, seems that is not how their FO thinks or else those guys would have been traded already. However, if we can get those 3 players for less? Sign me up twice!



To me, the perfect starting unit would be Luka/Marcus Smart/OPJ/RoCo/KP. That group would dominate for years. The closer I can get to that starting unit, the happier we all would be IMO.

The Mavs need a consistent #3 option and multiple defenders that can hit open shoots.  Satoransky does neither of those.  Last season playing meaningless (tanking) games for washington his 3 point % looked good on a very small sample size/attempts.  This season when he was asked to shoot the three more he was exposed on shooting more volume.  Also he had plenty of people to spread the floor for him in Lavine, White, and Lauri which is better than anyone outside of Beal on those wizard teams.   His three point percentage for those two seasons was smoke and mirrors.

Young is just a guy.  If we could acquire him for Powell's contract, Im all for it.  I wouldn't give up any true assets for 32yo role player.

OPJ can't get on court bc he is never healthy so he won't be dominating anything except the DL.