Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

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I've been off the internet basically all day cause of work, I come back to see not much has changed besides Brooks getting overpaid an obscene amount, Powell gets a fairly reasonable deal that pays him even less than McGee, and most of the posts are screaming Bloody Mary and the sky is falling calling this FA a failure....?

I'm sorry, do we all have short term memory. What occurred last year was an abject failure. This year? The Mavs actually kept their guy (on a reasonable risk averse deal). Signed back a key knockdown shooter on again an incredible value deal, and we're decrying this the same old Mavs? Sorry I don't buy it


I agree we still need to find a starting 3 and center. Everyone has to take a deep breath and chillax

I understand what do you want to say it, but what you are saying is too optimistic for the current Mavs situation. With the other words, i would say that we didn't get worse (or f***ed up something), but we also didn't get any better.

That roster is a mess and while we are talking about how much we improved during draft and FA, the truth is we didn't adress any of the issues that roster have last year, while teams we despise and hate got much stronger and got much more value from FA so far. 

We are still without power forward and Powell is still our starting center.

Let's be realistic, we draft Lively and O-max. Players on 2 positions we desperately need, but until we see them on the floor we can't judge if that's the good deal. 
Yes, getting a second first round pick is good, but we saw how much time it took Green to develop (3 years) and let's remember 2020 draft when we desperately need perimeter defense how we ended up. Ok, Green become valuable in his 3 year, but remember also Tyler Bey and Terry from that draft and where they are now.

I don't want to compare O-max and Lively to them, i just want to wait until i see them on the court and then judge this moves.

Kyrie signing is a good thing, with opening us a MLE, but until we sign a good player on a position we need there, there is another situation like we have with player exception and we never managed to use it.

Move in the right direction, but the fact is, for now we didn't capitalize it (rumours are rumours and until we sign a player it will be the same as it was with all player exceptions).

Signing Seth on BAE is a good thing. It will open a minutes for Hardy and it will help reduce Hardaway's departure.

Move in the right direction, but until Timmy is traded for a starting level a center or power forward, the roster is a mess with 5 centers without starting caliber quality, without power forward with 7 guards in the roster.

Powell is a solid deal, but until we got a starting center is a disaster.

Exum? Remember Campazzo and Tyler Dorsey.

And the biggest problem of the last 2 signings is that the market for the players is smaller by every hour and we spended it on a resigning Dwight Powell and signing Dante Exum.
 
At the end, we didn't get worse, but we also didn't get better. There is a lot of work to do for FO if they don't want to repeat the next season.