07-05-2021, 04:42 PM
(07-05-2021, 01:46 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: 1. How do you know they are crappy? Have the Knicks selected somebody yet?
2. You also ignore the fact that DSJ + two first round picks could have yielded a different player in a different trade. I believe the Cavs paid a protected 1st and a 2nd for Jarrett Allen and Taurean Prince. So I´d argue that Allen, Prince, a retained 2023 Mavs 1st round pick, full future pick trade flexibility and $15M in additional capspace could be considered a better position already.
You may be right but it's all hypothetical and you could have traded KP for a better haul the summer he signed his extension IMO. We've since cratered his value since. Some of that is on him and some on the Mavs.
The Mavs have not cared to even try to grab additional 1st and there have been some available since. They haven't cared about accumulating assets. We'd be in a lot better position if we had tried to do that after making the trade.
Also the picks are both likely to be in the 20s. Thats what I mean by crappy 1sts. Those are fairly low value picks. We see multiple of them moved every single year. Now we may have been able to get a legit player with that pick.... But the odds of that are so hit and miss for any team. And next to 0% for the Mavs. Unless you hear that the Mavs really wanted to try and trade back into the 1st for a guy they really like and that guy turns out to be a star, you'll just be cherry picking guys that the Mavs should of had a few years into the future because you have the benefit of hindsight.