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

[SleepingHero]

Scoring enough points was never the issue with losing Brunson, it was losing his playmaking. The starting lineup should be fine with Luka, Dinwiddie, and even Wood being able to create his own shots a bit, but we literally have no playmakers coming off the bench right now.

Passing on Dragic continues to mystify me.

Genuinely how many guys did Brunson set up while on the court next to Luka? He was routinely criticized for having his head down and being score-first guy. Of course JB made plenty of hockey assists, but I wouldn't say the biggest issue of losing Brunson was his playmaking. I'd say it was his ability to create a shot for himself seemingly at will, AND be relatively efficient while doing so. That is hard to replicate.

THJ can create a shot for himself, but efficiency was never his strong suit. Dinwiddie has the ability to set other people up in droves (more-so than Brunson ever has), but again he's streaky in making his own shots. 

It seems as if Kidd/Nico don't really care, and seem to believe that by getting more scoring guards, they'll make up for the loss of efficiency with raw numbers. And it's hard to argue against that. They're getting back Hardaway whose good for at least 10 a game, and adding Wood who can be an efficient scorer with the ability to be a 20ppg guy.

It's a different philosophy than what they had last year. And it's puzzling that they're so quick to change how they operate given that how they played last year got them to the WCF, but I don't think it's necessarily bad. 

I agree losing out on Dragic was a mistake in my view. Thought it was the easiest no-brainer choice to bring him in and the fact they didn't really dampened my view on the "new" front office.