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

[DanSchwartzgan]

This won’t be popular, but while I’m in no way against the idea of turning Hardaway into a better player somehow, I actually don’t think he’s the superfluous piece here. 

There’s been so much talk about putting nothing but good defenders next Luka, and I understand that logic, but this season’s start has taught me that the offense is really what’s broken now that Brunson is gone. I could see an argument for dumping THJ if we knew last night’s Walker was something they could get consistently, but I have a sneaking suspicion he’s only got about 10 of those games in him this year. 

Further, the team played really, really good team defense for the majority of last night’s game, including the time Hardaway was on the floor. I’ll continue to swim upstream like the salmon of Capistrano and claim that the anti-Hardaway narrative is significantly based on group-think momentum at this point.

The guy I’d want to remove from the equation, especially if we want to impose a mandate of committing to heavy minutes for Green with SOME minutes for Ntilikina, is Bullock. He seams like the odd man out to me, even after last night, which I feel was his best game of the season by far.

I will agree that THJ is working his butt off right now.  I wouldn't agree that there isn't fact behind the development of the THJ narrative.

I think Bullock is much easier to trade and much easier to replace given our current roster.