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

[Mavs2021]

Here is another way you can evaluate the meaingless tank games. The 76ers BENCHED Paul Reed for long stretches of the 2nd half. He finished at 17 pts, 10 rebs, 6 blks, 2 stls in 28 minutes. Same happened with Jalen McDaniels. Benched with 8/3/2/2 in 18 minutes, cause the Sixers have no interest to draw attention to their UFA/RFA.

Jalen Johnson is still a few years away from RFA, but the pathway in Atlanta still appears to be blocked by Hunter/Griffin/Bey/Bogdanovic/Murray. If you pull off a Collins trade, I´d ask for him as a an additional piece. 15/3/3 with 3 blocks in 19 minutes tonight.

Mykhailiuk 17/6/5 with 2 stls on 6/18 bad shooting in 35 minutes. He´s basically a poor version of Gordon Hayward, that you can likely sign for the minimum. That also makes him better than Bertans for 10% the salary.

Jordan Nwora on the Pacers. Talked about his play as the #1 option for Nigeria. Another 40% 3pt shooting season in the NBA. He´s basically THJ on a rookie/minimum contract. 19/4 in 23 minutes tonight.

Talked about Goga Bitadze at length. Tonight 4 pts, 8 rebs, 1 ast, 1 stl in 20 minutes. Nothing that jumps out at you, but that´s more or less what Hartenstein does every night, except you can likely have it for the minimum.

Three of these players were available for literally nothing at the current trade deadline.

I understand that it won´t happen for some of them, but the costs are minimal and if you signed all five, I´m sure you get 2-3 top 9 rotational players out of it. I couldn´t tell you with 100% certainty which, but that´s how the numbers game works.

If you only sign one Ntilikina every two years and waste the rest on Pinson, McGee, Holiday, Burke, Boban and such players, you´ll never get ahead of the other teams.

All that being said, we can all look forward to same dumb sh*t the Mavs tried every year for the last decade that has NEVER worked.