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

[ItsGoTime]

Can you double S&T Wood for Vuc?  Wood joins Ayton and Williams in their big rotation.  Vuc isn't the ideal defensive center by any stretch of the imagination, but we're not exactly flush with options.  Maybe McGee is outgoing in that deal with Wood to make the salaries work.  BTW, it wouldn't shock me if they targeted Vuc even without the hypothetical we are discussing.  

Vuc and Toppin weren't designed to be your big moves, but they slot in as starters moving Powell/Sims and Maxi/Morris to the backups at the 4 and 5.  I think you are also set with scoring guards with Luka, Kyrie and Hardy.  Your big move is on the wing.  Green is the only sure thing and you'd presumably keep one of THJ or Bullock with the other one and your two future picks going out for the wing stud you are targeting.

So, I’m with Omahen on the Vuc at C thing (I’m with you on the Toppin thing). If Vuc for Wood was the deal they could make, I’d be happy at least with moving on from so many familiar faces in the same roles. Add in the trade of THJ for Brooks and I think that makes us a 1-4 seed in the regular season depending on how well all the pieces click. It is not, however, a contender.

Luka/Kyrie/Brooks/Toppin/Vuc
Hardy/Green/Bullock/Maxi/Sims

That’s a pretty decent bench too. Add a Patty Mills type 3rd string PG that leap frogs Hardy when either Luka or Kyrie are injured. If only we could exchange Vuc for like, Capela? That simple swap out I think puts us in the conversation of contender. Heck, if we could extract Hartenstein instead of Sims in the deal, I think he with Powell backing him up would be solid.