2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[Scott41theMavs]

This isn't so much a trade idea as it is a framework for thinking about trades. I've yet to figure out what the biggest area of need is. When you have a bunch of "good" players and "great" players aren't within the reach of your assets, then all you are probably talking about is marginal improvement.

I'm starting to look at lineups and positions a little differently than the traditional five positions (1-5). In terms of lineups, we have Both Unicorns, Neither Unicorn, Luka without KP and KP without Luka. We are nowhere near figuring out the lineups that include KP. Right now he has a positive net rating in two man lineups with only one teammate...Brunson. He's a net negative in On Court and his On Minus Off is -26.

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Future improvement is also clouded by a potential drop in BRI which could actually lower the cap and tax levels. It seems the team has targeted something more at all three positions. Improvement might just be marginal (potential deals might be uninspiring), but the difference between 48 and 51 wins and the difference between 5th in the West and 4th is also a marginal difference. At some point marginal improvement is enough to make the difference between a first round exit and two rounds of playoffs. So, maybe our biggest need is actually marginal improvement. Anything more that than is likely out of reach or incredibly expensive.

This is a well written post and has some really good thoughts that was pretty immediately buried.

Someone posted an idea of trading for both Holiday and Favors out of NO. That to me is a marginal upgrade for the frontcourt (Favors > either of Maxi or Powell and is a bigger body to deal with the bruisers in the league more aptly). It is, however, a pretty big upgrade to the backcourt (Holiday >>> Brunson, Wright, or JJB) especially if he can get closer to his last season numbers with the change in scenery.

The first trade I'd propose can't happen til Dec cause of either Powell or Maxi's involvement and it mostly is only a viable trade if Zion comes back and further stunts Jrue's numbers relegating him to mainly a setup man on O and stopper on D as well as their chances of making the playoffs seem more bleak.

Second trade is just one I'd like to see if there is enough left over to make happen cause I'm intrigued with the swiss army knife ability of Jae Crowder. I think he'd be a marginal, but important upgrade to get that would seal our 3-4 year future as a contender. This trade wouldn't happen til after the first one does, cause I want as many assets as I can give to NO for the players involved. If there are not enough assets left over from the NO trade, then I'm good without this one.

Trade 1:
Jrue, Favors and anything they want to dump on us
for
THJ, Powell, JJ, Brunson (anything else they want, or if they want to switch out names, for example Maxi instead of Powell although I prefer giving them Powell), 2025 first and 2 future seconds.

This gets us bigger, stronger and more junk yard dog-ish to combat the guys that want to push our team around and give at least as much as we're getting.

Trade 2:
Jae, AI and anything they might want to dump on us
for
Lee, Kleber (or Powell) and 2-3 seconds or gentleman's agreement to give them our 2020 pick.

This gets us more playoff ready with the bigger, more durable body of Jae. In all honesty, Lee and AI don't need to be included, it only adds to Mem's immediate savings.

This leaves us with a team that looks like this:

Luka
Jrue
Crowder
KP
Favors

Wright
Curry
AI
DFS
Boban

JJB

There's the 11 man reg season rotation, Boban still gets mostly spot minutes, but pretty much every game minutes at least. Playoffs drop Boban, JJB and the worse player between DFS and AI. The ones dropped get spot minutes in the playoffs. This team is built to deal with any lineup in the league, big or small. Tons of defense, tons of offense. Basically we're condensing the abilities of all the outgoing players into 2 fewer players so as to get more burn for the players who will contribute more appropriately. No more need to switch lineups/starters. RC can figure out who plays the best with eachother for his mad scientist testing period, then set the lineups as the playoffs near.

Here's the approved trade on RealGM's trade checker: Trade ID #7245295

Why the heck would the Pels trade Holiday for our (relative) pupu platter?