07-18-2023, 11:56 PM
(07-18-2023, 11:19 PM)The Jom Wrote: Are you implying the Mavs have not? That Brunson, Kleber, Finney-Smith don’t count?
They need more consistency in developing players. Their player development pipeline is way too sporadic and infrequent.
DFS 2016
Maxi 2017
Brunson 2018
2019 - none
2020- none [they did draft a 1st rounder here, Green]
2021 - none
Hardy 2022
2023 - none [they did draft two 1st rounders here, Lively and Prosper]
You can see the deep development area in 2019-2021 was not very aggressive or effective. So nothing was really added, And if you don't find and develop some projects every year to create an ongoing pipeline, where you can have some ready to replace those who will inevitably leave, in time you run dry. The most cap-friendly replacements are internal, and rarely other teams' free agents or players made available in trade.