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

[mvossman]

I respect others opinions, I just don’t agree on Maxi (or many of our other supposedly indispensable players).  Frankly, if we aren’t going far without the Maxi’s and Greens, we have far more issues than I believe we do.  I just don’t understand how people can spend so much time complaining about our depth and talent and continually say that we need to upgrade, yet when it comes time to do something, all of our players are indispensable unless he returns a stud.  Every time a proposal is made, folks say the other team wouldn’t do it because we don’t have the assets or it’s clearly one sided.  Our blue colored glasses have become fogged.

This board can also be a fickle group.  When Maxi was sucking hind tit at the end of the year, many were looking to bail.  He put together a few good scoring games and now he is indispensable.  Timmy was blasted until I believe his contract season, then we needed him, now we don’t again.  The SD trade was unpopular until he showed something and we fell in love.  When he strung together some poor playoff games, that love started to wane.  Now that Brunson has left, he is again indispensable.  We want others to give us the players we ask for because we love our boys but will complain when nothing gets done.  Maybe we just find our #2 using Timmy and DB and we should be finals bound .

Edit:  One more point on the fickleness, don’t forget, there was a large number of folks on the board that didn’t like Reggie well past the mid point of last season.  Just go back and review posts.

In my mind, the purpose of trades are to improve fit.  A good trade is when both teams get better (at whatever it is they are trying to accomplish).  When you have players that are a very good fit on a team, there is generally not a good reason to trade them.  This team went to the WCF with a collection of players that you would not expect to go that far.  We traded our second most talented player for guys not nearly as talented and started winning at one of the highest rates in the NBA.  Folks talk about trading Timmy because he was struggling to fit in Kidd's system before the injury and was not part of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.  Folks are more hesitant to trade guys like Dorian, Bullock, Maxi and Dinwiddie because they are great fits on this team.  Unless you are swindling another team (not something this FO is particularly known for) you are likely not getting equal value sending those guys out due to fit.

This board is fickle like all fanbases are fickle.  Part of it is different voices on different topics, part of it is typical fan overreaction, and part of it is that we have had some wild swings in player performance.  There was reasonable trepidation on the Dinwiddie fit here, and that turned out to be significantly better than anticipated.  Bullock was absolutely terrible for the first two months of the season, but once he could hit the broad side of a barn, it became clear how good his fit is.  Maxi went through by far his worst stretch of his career towards the end of the season to the point he was almost unplayable, but he was vital in the playoffs.  There has been reason for some of the fickleness.