Trade & FA 2023-24: HOU Targeting Mikal Bridges again!| Mitchell is LAL #1 Target

[dirkfansince1998]

Have you seen our roster????  The core of our valuable players ready to play now is all guards (Kyrie, Green, Hardy) with Luka as a Point Forward.  Lively is 3 years out from being a starter on a championship team.  What you are proposing is a Luka exit plan.

Paying Green crazy money would be a huge mistake.  IMO, we need to move him for a like talent with production that better fits our needs...  Z.Collins.

Mavs made the WCF with Kleber/Powell. Kleber is still on the roster and the Mavs didn´t draft someone with the 12th pick to bench him for the entire season. Lively will get some minutes. Maybe they think that Holmes can resurrect his career. Maybe they need another guy for 10-20 minutes (Saric, Wagner, even Powell are more than enough for a role like this) but with limited assets they cannot overpay on one position as long as they still have holes in other areas.

There is no perfect fix all solution for all positions. Too many holes. Not enough assets. Going to take some time to undo the damage of past trades/offseasons. Mavs used the most valuable asset they had to draft a young big. Don´t think they can afford to invest even more valuable assets (giving up a young player like Green, use MLE) into the center position.