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

[mvossman]

In the Mavs price range? No proven players. Only upside kids like Jalen Smith or Thomas Bryant. Maybe the Mavs willingness to offer additonal years would have been enough to secure one of the guys in the 5-10m range. For me the addition of Wood was enough if all they wanted was a short term solution. With all the additional needs (big wing, playmaker) it feels like they invested a lot of their meager assets into bigs.

But that brings us back to the overall plan and idea of the people in charge. And it gives me a bad feeling because I don´t see any longterm plan. McGee feels like a three season stop gap. Mavs admitting that they don´t have the necessary talent and no way to add in the near future.
Leaving us with the usual Donnie era talking points. A trade in the future. Saving assets for the big move. Being opportunistic.

I was on the Jalen Smith bus.  I would have preferred that to the McGee signing.

I can see the argument to being done with bigs after the Wood signing.  A lot depends on whether Wood can hold his own as the single big.  I am skeptical and prefer pairing him with Maxi, which would mean less need for a big wing and more need for big depth.

To me the Donnie era talking points (at least after the chip) were dominated by plan powder.  It was about generating cap space.  I much prefer the newer ideas of saving assets for a big trade in the future and being opportunistic.