Yeah, Josh Jackson is done. Can't play. Bad dude.
Waiters? Somehow worse.
I actually like Thad. But he is a small ball 4 already. You don't want him as your 5.
For all the hate that DP is receiving, he isn't killing us. I would look to upgrade at the position though. He is probably overexposed as a starter - which was pretty much general opinion before the extension. Good guy. Can play a little. Great teammate. Mavs aren't going to trade him just to trade him. RC just called him the "heartbeat of the team" after the MEM game. Not thinking that means they are looking to trade the dude.
I still think we have a shot with Chicago on an Otto Porter trade. Guy makes a lot of money and we can ease their suffering... haha.
THJ/Lee for Porter and any number of guys that they may want to dump - Dunn (just signed Satoransky and drafted White - he is done there), Felicio (hth is that guy making 8M?), Valentine (last year of rookie deal in the d league). Besides Dunn, I don't think any of those guys get any burn here but make the deal work and take money off CHI books.
Other thoughts: Go to the well again with Sac. they have a pair of Euros that would work well here in Bogdan and Bjelica. They also declined Harry Giles' option on his rookie deal for next season. Wouldn't mind trying to pry that dude loose! They have some crap contracts that they are probably feeling some buyer's remorse for about now - so come trade deadline, they might be targets. Dedmon extends into 21, so I can't imagine he will be popular!
Ibaka would be awesome here. But he is in the final year, and Tor doesn't actually have any bad contracts that extend into next season.
I wonder if Noel has chilled and wants another crack here? He still (on paper) would be an amazing fit.
The Henangomez boys are out there...
One player that I wanted the Mavs to take a shot at and he wouldn't have even been a trade target is Kenneth Faried. He just signed with a Chinese team this week, so he is off the market. And, fwiw, this is how bad the extension for Powell was. I would take Faried for the min over powell for 11M all day. It isn't that Powell is terrible. I just think his skillset is replaceable and somewhat abundant. Similar to running backs in the NFL. I don't think you have to pay rim runners who don't play d.
A player I want to throw out there is Tristan Thompson from CLE. I don't know how that would work to get him here - outside of Love/Nance, they don't have many contracts that extend. but using our trade exception, we could pull back henson/delladova and save them some cash this year. Could even make that work with lee/Bro going back and save them even more.
Orl can't pay/play all of their bigs, so they also remain an option.
I think that out of those players that are get-able, Porter/Thompson/Bogdan would be my faves if the mavs could swing a deal in terms of contract flexibility and on court usefulness to us.
Waiters? Somehow worse.
I actually like Thad. But he is a small ball 4 already. You don't want him as your 5.
For all the hate that DP is receiving, he isn't killing us. I would look to upgrade at the position though. He is probably overexposed as a starter - which was pretty much general opinion before the extension. Good guy. Can play a little. Great teammate. Mavs aren't going to trade him just to trade him. RC just called him the "heartbeat of the team" after the MEM game. Not thinking that means they are looking to trade the dude.
I still think we have a shot with Chicago on an Otto Porter trade. Guy makes a lot of money and we can ease their suffering... haha.
THJ/Lee for Porter and any number of guys that they may want to dump - Dunn (just signed Satoransky and drafted White - he is done there), Felicio (hth is that guy making 8M?), Valentine (last year of rookie deal in the d league). Besides Dunn, I don't think any of those guys get any burn here but make the deal work and take money off CHI books.
Other thoughts: Go to the well again with Sac. they have a pair of Euros that would work well here in Bogdan and Bjelica. They also declined Harry Giles' option on his rookie deal for next season. Wouldn't mind trying to pry that dude loose! They have some crap contracts that they are probably feeling some buyer's remorse for about now - so come trade deadline, they might be targets. Dedmon extends into 21, so I can't imagine he will be popular!
Ibaka would be awesome here. But he is in the final year, and Tor doesn't actually have any bad contracts that extend into next season.
I wonder if Noel has chilled and wants another crack here? He still (on paper) would be an amazing fit.
The Henangomez boys are out there...
One player that I wanted the Mavs to take a shot at and he wouldn't have even been a trade target is Kenneth Faried. He just signed with a Chinese team this week, so he is off the market. And, fwiw, this is how bad the extension for Powell was. I would take Faried for the min over powell for 11M all day. It isn't that Powell is terrible. I just think his skillset is replaceable and somewhat abundant. Similar to running backs in the NFL. I don't think you have to pay rim runners who don't play d.
A player I want to throw out there is Tristan Thompson from CLE. I don't know how that would work to get him here - outside of Love/Nance, they don't have many contracts that extend. but using our trade exception, we could pull back henson/delladova and save them some cash this year. Could even make that work with lee/Bro going back and save them even more.
Orl can't pay/play all of their bigs, so they also remain an option.
I think that out of those players that are get-able, Porter/Thompson/Bogdan would be my faves if the mavs could swing a deal in terms of contract flexibility and on court usefulness to us.