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

[DanSchwartzgan]

Thanks for posting. Dinwiddie sees the roster the same way many of us do, right down to identifying “two Jerami Grant types” as the answer.

Great conversation.  I don't know anything about the guy with the laptop, but really enjoyed what Arenas and Jennings brought to the conversation.  Spencer is just a really smart dude who cuts right to it.

He actually started with rim protection and then pointed out there needs to be two guys who can guard up and down the lineup.  Luka is the one on O and the four on D.  So, someone needs to be able to guard the best frontcourt guy so Luka can rest on someone else (Grant fits really well here).  Someone else needs to guard the best backcourt guy so Kyrie can rest on someone else (Grant might not be ideal on ones, so it might be better if this guy was a little smaller than Grant the player (vs. Grant the prototype).  Oh, and both of these guys need to be able to shoot.  I think we have one of those already in Green, which is why I'm not trading him for anything outside of a Top 15 guy.  The trick is how do you get rim protection AND a big wing who can defend and shoot with what we have to offer.

I thought the Ayton answer was telling (helps a ton on O, but no rim protection).  The same probably applies to THJ (helps a ton on O, but not enough perimeter D...plus Hardy does the same things with more ball handling).

Edit: When they got to the Lebron retirement talk, GA had Davis gone. Build around LeBron, Reaves and Rui.