03-11-2024, 10:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-11-2024, 10:38 AM by KillerLeft.)
(03-11-2024, 07:31 AM)surfpuckmd Wrote: Absolutely agree. Dinwiddie has been a losing player his entire career except during his Mavericks tenure. He's a one-hit wonder.
I still can't believe we traded Porzingis for Dinwiddie and Bertans. Even though Porzingis was a poor fit here, a Labrador retriever could have negotiated a better deal than that.
It's an interesting situation, to say the least. I haven't checked the details recently, but I'm pretty sure that Washington had to pay Boston a 1st to take the Porzingis contract, which I think makes the Dallas/Washington deal look better. I'd take the transitional results of that Bertans contract over paying a 1st to dump him any day, and as we've discussed, the Mavs somehow got more out of Dinwiddie while he was here than they ever got or would have gotten out of Porzingis. But, I can't deny that Porzingis is looking like a usable player on a good team in Boston.
I think the angle that we're overlooking a bit is the absolutely crushing weight of his contract relative to what he brings to the table, even if he's healthy and playing decently. It just seems like Boston had the means and the will to say "F it, we're close." I'm not sure we all realize that Dallas (and most other teams) literally CAN'T (or at least couldn't, past tense) make that choice, financially. I think that's a big reason Cuban took on the partners, recently, and it gives me a little hope for the future. I'll have even more hope on the day we're all free of Jason Kidd.
But back to Porzingis on the Mavs, it can't be denied that he wasn't working here. TWO coaches tried, one of them being qualified and trying a variety of approaches, the other having just as much reason to make it work (I personally believe Carlisle's exit was just as much about his desire to be free of Porzingis as it had to do with his relationship with Luka) and both of them clearly reached the conclusion that he needed to be moved out of here. That's not a great negotiating position when trading a player, but it just had to be done.