01-26-2024, 12:41 PM
(01-26-2024, 12:37 PM)Scott41theMavs Wrote: OK, then I definitely misunderstood your perspective. Your take, then, is that we don't need to improve around the edges, but to strengthen the core of the roster. I took that to mean that you were saying they needed to get someone great (3-esque) at the deadline. You're saying, no, wait until the offseason. Is that right? If that's the case, you're on much the same page KL is.
My perspective would be that 1) no trade is likely to help the Mavs win more games/get farther in the playoffs this year, but 2) they need to take much the same tack they did this past summer - long-view, opportunistic moves that make us better long term. Shrewdness and maximization of assets.
Their path to improvement this year imho is 1) fire Kidd today, hire Adrian (Mav vet!) as the interim coach, and go big game hunting for a top five coach this summer (won't happen, but it's the clear move *today*), 2) play OMax at least 10 mpg of non-garbage time the rest of the year - develop the man, because his ceiling is just what we need, 3) if someone wants to give us something better-fitting and more useful at the deadline than Holmes, GW, Green, or Hardy without us sending out 27, do that.
I'm not sold on Grant as a 2 FRP guy.
That is ok. Just an example of getting two guys instead of 1 this summer.