(11-15-2022, 10:36 AM)mvossman Wrote: Lets look at just the last 2 offseasons with Nico:
Had 34 mil in cap space and instead decided to run it back making the following moves:
- Sign Timmy to a contract that is clearly negative right now
- Sign Bullock to MLE (so far that has looked good for half a season)
- Sign Boban to more than min (joke)
- Sign Brown to more than min (fail)
- keep WCS with team option (fail)
They failed to sign Brunson to an extension which turned out to be a disaster of a decision
They failed to trade KP during offseason when they could potentially have replaced him with cap space, presumably to raise his trade value. That failed as they had to send him out for two negative contracts and draft capital.
Then this offseason their two biggest free agent moves were:
- Let Brunson walk
- Sign McGee to 3/17 (complete fail)
That is a lot of failures (many of them being immediately identified as such by this board) in just two years. Its hard to find anything they did right since the Luka/Brunson draft. The original Dorian and Maxi extensions. The Wood trade. Maybe a few other, but the failures have way outdone the successes.
Free agency has been a complete disaster (as always with this organization). Its why I can't imagine anyone wanting to go plan powder.
THJ was a must that time, there wasn’t much else to go after (other than Dinwiddie) and the space would vanish that way or another.
Boban/Brown/WCS were prayers/tradefodder and ended exactly there.
McGee isn't great, but you could see what they want with him.
It's all the Brunson thing to me.
(11-15-2022, 10:51 AM)omahen Wrote: I think trading him was the right move. Mavs don't have enough defense even without him. Unfortunatelly the target wasn't, although it looked like the right move.
Never trade for a player discarded by the Heat or Spurs. (GSW and the Raps are near that status too).