07-08-2023, 01:40 AM
(07-07-2023, 11:27 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Ok, well now the money isn’t tied up. Go find another wing defender, Nico. One who can shoot this time, please. Also, if you have time, snag a center so all of my friends around here will stop losing their minds and enjoy this killer off-season.
Thybulle would have been okay and if this shooting surge proves to be permanent, then he´d easily have been worth the near MLE.
Nevertheless if you take Jalen Smith into the TPE, maybe make a small move for Nwora/Mykhailiuk, you have more overall talent than just with Thybulle. It´s more the pressing issue of the need. Maybe you stock-pile more assets instead and hope to make a TDL move.
This was never a one summer project. Lowe/Bontemps aren´t wrong, when they say great summer, but more improvement than the Wolves (healthy), Pelicans (healthy) and OKC (healthy)? I´m not sure either. The Mavs finally smartened up, but this is stiill a 24 months re-structuring project.
What´s important is that Luka has fun again and sees roster progress. We basically put the whole roster on Luka´s timeline except Kyrie. And I honestly think the Mavs also re-signed Kyrie with the idea of flipping him for Ayton or Lavine next summer to complete the transformation of the whole roster.
Of course it would be nice to acquire a starting C for THJ/McGee now and we still need an extra perimeter defender.