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

[mvossman]

There's no such thing as a glue guy who can't be replaced. Successful teams do it all the time. I've never seen Mavs fans overrate their own players like I have during this off season and we didn't even win a championship or make it to the Finals.

We could replace all those players you mentioned with a bunch of other NBA role players of varying quality and still make it just as far next season as we would with them. Because of Luka. Not the glue guys. Other role players bring different strengths, they might be missing things our role players have, but bring other important things they don't have. Bottom line is pretending they are 'special' because they are ours as though they are in any way irreplaceable is blinkered thinking that's sounds more emotional based than rational. Role players that bring things that good teams (and even bad teams) all across the NBA deam important are dime a dozen common. 

I disagree that you can just throw random role players and they have the same impact.  We went through Delon Wright and Josh Richardson who clearly didn't fit and are currently making similar salaries to guys like Dorian, Bullock and Maxi.  I also think folks sometimes underrate roster continuity.  Its not that the guys who fit can't be replaced, its that sending them out in a trade for a player that potentially does not fit is likely to be a net loss.

I also think folks overestimate how easy it is to acquire these replacement role players to begin with, especially for this FO.  Next offseason we will not have cap, our picks or the full MLE.  Its very difficult to add role players under those conditions.