2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[ItsGoTime]

Well point stands. They probably asked about Giles before Jackson.

Fact still stands, they wanted Barnes in the worst way ($85M extension). Extracting closer value to that would have made it an even trade. I'm not saying ask for Giles instead of JJ, I'm saying Giles in addition to JJ. Two prospects that hadn't shown much to that date in terms of promise (because if they had, they would have played more that season). 

That's the negotiation part that is missing with our FO. If they balk on it, and we know he's going to opt out that last offseason, fine, we can have the extra $3.2M in cap room (albeit, we showed we wouldn't have used appropriately). We also made the deal with either 1 or 2 days left to negotiate and shop Barnes to other teams before the TDL. There was no need to make the deal when they did. 

If at the last moment nothing else materializes and Sac still hasn't budged because they know they would be offering HB that contract in the offseason (where they might have to compete with other teams for him because if they believe he is worth that contract, they have to believe there might be another team out there that does too), then we as fans also know they exhausted all avenues they could and JJ was the most they could get for him (still not the best extraction of value, but also the best our FO can do in the situation they were in).

Mavs2019 and IGT, I just wanted to point out with regard to Justin Jackson that he looked like an asset and a player with promising potential all last year - both with the Kings and the Mavs.

His rookie season he played 22.1 mpg and started 41 games. Second season with Sac he played 20.8 mpg and started 3 games. That suggests regression or evaluation of not good enough on a team that needs talent to materialize. He showed some of our fans some amount of promise last year when he got here. I have to say, I wasn't all that impressed with his contribution in terms of what I saw we needed and what he gave us at his position. We need multi position defense more than anything from the mid-sized wing and he showed he can't even defend his position. His 3% was nice, and increased in a small sample size, that's the only promise he gave, to me, that's not good enough because everything else was pretty meh to horrible.