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[mvossman]

I don´t buy this ball in hands and want to play with BS at all. Just an excuse for the owner and front office.

Guys want to be paid and win.

We have never seen Luka play with 2-3 truly elite offensive players. Yet Wood is having the best offensive season of his career factoring in percentages. Dinwiddie is having the best offensive season of his career factoring in percentages. They are basically scoring a little less, but on much higher efficiency than they did as #1 options on loser teams.

Brunson was getting better every year in Dallas and I´m sure he could have made another leap this season, too. The only reason Brunson is not in Dallas right now is Cuban. 

If you put Lillard or Lavine on the Mavs they´d probably average 15PPG on three point shots alone playing off Luka. Those 25 shots Bullock, Dinwiddie, THJ, Kleber and Bertans hit at a 36.6% clip you can bump to 40%+ easily. And the roleplayers shots would be even easier playing off Luka and a 2nd offensive star. Luka becomes even more un-guardable and more rested.

Actrually think they´d have an outside shot this year, if that clown at the top just paid Brunson. Somehow Cuban won the worst signing and non-signing in the same off-season.

I think you are simplifying things.  Guys generally want to get paid, they generally want to win, and they want opportunity to score (especially the offensive players).  Different guys will prioritize different things.  I think a lot of guys would prefer to be the offensive focal point and a lot of point guards want to be the one to run the show.  For some winning is more important, but with the egos in the NBA I think that might be more the exception than the rule.

I'm not sure there was an avenue for keeping Brunson.  I think our best shot was to have done his contract right to begin with, so that he was restricted the prior year.  I'm not even sure he takes the max extension if they offered it last offseason (which they should have).  I would be willing to bet if the Mavs make a final offer matching NY (we will never know because Brunson cancelled that last meeting, which I think is telling in of itself) Brunson is still walking.