ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

[mvossman]

If you exempt Wood and Maxi from the outgoing and look at money matches for Powell/THJ, you end up with Powell/THJ/Green for T. Harris/Thybulle.  The reason it isn't done is Philly is still working out details with Harden.  They've already announced Tucker for the MLE, so they have to have a way to save some money.  Maybe Harden plays nice and they are fine.  Maybe he doesn't and Philly needs a money saving deal.  

Starters:        Wood/Harris/DFS/Bullock/Luka

Main Bench:   McGee/Maxi/Thybulle/Dinwiddie

Deep Bench:  Bertans/Frank/Hardy/Dragic

In a vacuum I like that trade, but it makes less sense after the Wood move.  Harris makes sense paired with a traditional defensive center, but the Wood/Harris combination does not provide a lot of rim protection/defense.

Actually, I am really warming up to the Wood/Maxi pairing, and McGee makes that possible as the quality backup center.  Right now I think our focus should be on signing Dragic and wait until the TDL to make any more moves.  At that point we need to either trade or extend Wood, Powell has value as an expiring and hopefully we have built Timmy's value back up.

If you look at the roster with Dragic, it is good and deep.  Not contention worthy, but probably as good as last season and top 4 seed is a strong possibility.

Luka/Dragic/Hardy
Din/THJ/Frank
Bullock/DFS/Green
DFS/Maxi/Bertans
Wood/McGee/Powell