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

[KillerLeft]

I'm not feeling the doom and gloom yet for this season.  This team has gone through a rough patch injury wise and managed to stay around 500.  I think if we can get healthy and maybe make a small TDL move we could finish top 5 and get a series win.  

Tax teams don't take on bad salary for picks, so that was never going to happen.  The only bad contracts right now are Bertans and McGee and they could both be stretch waived if necessary and we will be in possession of all of our picks in the offseason.  I don't even think the roster is that much of a mess.  It just needs a couple of upgrades that we will actually have the assets get soon.

I'm coming around to this thinking lately, too. 

It could be a lot worse. The roster doesn't bother me nearly as much as the amount of faith I've lost in Kidd's abilities, but even that might end up being better than I think right now. 

I think they're a little guilty of not approaching the early season with much fight, hunger or professionalism, and that sucks, don't get me wrong, but it's somewhat attributable to WCF hangover, new contracts, etc. Then, about the time they seemed to decide it was time to start winning they just got snakebitten with one injury after another, to the point where they've just had no chance. It's definitely possible that it will be too little too late by the time everyone is back and the team works itself back to 100% (if that ever happens), but the Western Conference is doing them a huge favor by dishing out issues to most of the other teams, too. Honestly, if you're not either a Grizzlies or a Nuggets fan right now you're dealing with the same depression Mavs fans are going through. 

It's not a given, but it definitely won't shock me if the Mavs figure things out and turn this into a respectable season.