05-17-2024, 09:14 AM
(05-17-2024, 01:51 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: Oh, for some reason, I thought your scenario was an either/or with Caruso/DJJ. Sorry, it has been a long day.
Yeah, I am a fan of Caruso the player. I obviously would like him to be on the team if there were an easy path. I guess I’m just not as sure as you that switching him out with Jones, even just in the starting lineup, what have the impact necessary to justify giving up ANOTHER distant future first. I really don’t like the idea of pissing away more picks. I think I’d rather just find out what the team will look like, as is, only with a training camp and a few more months together before I did anything like that.
Don’t get me wrong, there are probably moves that would tempt me to give up a pick over the summer, I just don’t have that vibe on Caruso at the moment, personally, but I also think it would take more than one pick to snag him. We have been saying for years that the Mavericks are running out of assets to trade, and while I feel they have stretched their meager war chest astonishingly far, at some point, our worries will be valid. Anyway, part of my pushback is that I just really don’t think Hardaway and one first rounder gets it done.
But sure – in a perfect world, Caruso is a player I would love to have on the team.
I'm both on the fence whether we should trade a first this offseason, and on the fence whether it should be for a DJJ upgrade or a Timmy upgrade. If we make it past OKC (and I think we will) I think we are going to find in our next series that we are not at the level of true contender yet (although I am really surprised how much trouble Denver is having with Minn). One point of clarification, I think we can trade 25 this coming offseason as opposed to a distant first.