(04-23-2022, 02:32 PM)Jommybone Wrote: [ -> ]You mean his first couple of weeks, right?
I mean I think it was a little more than that, but the reality is that was his only window to actually impact our roster with relationships for probably a long time. Maybe to retain players? I feel like that is probably more about the coach than the GM.
I think Nico is actually doing the job of a GM, and have a few reasons for that, but don't really care at the moment. Nico won't be playing, coaching, making trades or signing free agents tonight.
Trading Powell for a warm body would help this team a lot.
More 3 and D potential big men for sure. Long-term Moses Wright is worth developing on another 2-way contract next season. Depending on who is available at pick 26, I'd look at that as well. Then in FA, bring in a vet like Paul Millsap or Serge Ibaka for cheap.
The days of having to rely too much on Maxi Kleber need to come to an end. He is still a good rotation player to have but he can't be the only option...when he can't shoot or gets in foul trouble, it's tough. Powell is a one-trick pony on offense and Bertans is just a shooting specialist like Peja in 2011 who may be able to get hot for 1-2 games in a 7 game series while also being unplayable for many games too.
I like what I see from Cousins to give him 12/15 minutes... I hope we solve it in a better way... but I would give him the place of Boban or MC
(04-24-2022, 03:37 PM)SwisherPrice Wrote: [ -> ]More 3 and D potential big men for sure. Long-term Moses Wright is worth developing on another 2-way contract next season. Depending on who is available at pick 26, I'd look at that as well. Then in FA, bring in a vet like Paul Millsap or Serge Ibaka for cheap.
The days of having to rely too much on Maxi Kleber need to come to an end. He is still a good rotation player to have but he can't be the only option...when he can't shoot or gets in foul trouble, it's tough. Powell is a one-trick pony on offense and Bertans is just a shooting specialist like Peja in 2011 who may be able to get hot for 1-2 games in a 7 game series while also being unplayable for many games too.
Myles Turner, Myles Turner, Myles Turner.
Trade Rick his old favorite toys in Powell & Kleber + the 1st rounder at the draft for Myles Turner. Then sign Isaiah Hartenstein in free agency. Add another bigger wing for the bench - like Otto Porter Jr.
Probably need to cut loose of Boban, Burke, and Brown.
(04-24-2022, 08:26 PM)VintagePejav2 Wrote: [ -> ]Myles Turner, Myles Turner, Myles Turner.
Trade Rick his old favorite toys in Powell & Kleber + the 1st rounder at the draft for Myles Turner. Then sign Isaiah Hartenstein in free agency. Add another bigger wing for the bench - like Otto Porter Jr.
Probably need to cut loose of Boban, Burke, and Brown.
I am all in on Turner. A local guy AND the perfect fit for what this team needs at starting C. Also would be really excited to see what he can do as the solo big next to Luka vs. having to play next to Sabonis.
(04-24-2022, 08:26 PM)VintagePejav2 Wrote: [ -> ]Myles Turner, Myles Turner, Myles Turner.
Trade Rick his old favorite toys in Powell & Kleber + the 1st rounder at the draft for Myles Turner. Then sign Isaiah Hartenstein in free agency. Add another bigger wing for the bench - like Otto Porter Jr.
Probably need to cut loose of Boban, Burke, and Brown.
Yeah. They would be great pickups. I’m hoping for a trade for Turner, M.Robinson, or Nurkic.
(04-24-2022, 10:11 PM)Tunesquad23 Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah. They would be great pickups. I’m hoping for a trade for Turner, M.Robinson, or Nurkic.
I don’t think Nurkic would work here - they’d have to play drop coverage and Kidd/Sweeney definitely don’t want to do that. Not sure on Robinson - if it involves Brunson, then no thank you.
Draft a steal and reunite with McGee on a one-year contract.
All of those centers wouldn't fix the mistakes Powell made and all would easily be torched in the PnR.
The only center that actually would fix all of Powell's deficiencies but still maintain his switchability would be Deandre Ayton and we ain't getting him.
Robinson is a FA this summer, so he is literally impossible (along with any other FA who will be getting more than about $6M starting salary) for the Mavs to get this summer. Take him out of the discussion.
(04-25-2022, 12:09 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: [ -> ]All of those centers wouldn't fix the mistakes Powell made and all would easily be torched in the PnR.
The only center that actually would fix all of Powell's deficiencies but still maintain his switchability would be Deandre Ayton and we ain't getting him.
McGee gives you something the rest of the rotation doesn't in rim protection and rebounding. He's situational but is someone we could afford, give a short term contract and be useful playing around 15 mpg. His offense was actually great in game three for PHX.
Obviously it's not our #1 plan (not losing JB and getting a starting caliber big should be our priorities), but if it comes to the point of saving money due to JB's payday, how about doing a swap with ORL (FA is after the draft, so it'd have to well calculated)?
DAL gets: #32
ORL gets Burke (Maybe Brown or Boban too?), #26
We shed some money AND we get a 2nd rounder we could sign as a two-way (also open a roster spot).
Doncic/Dinwiddie/Ntilikina
Brunson*/Hardaway/Brown
Bullock/Green
Finney-Smith/Bertans
Powell/Kleber/Chriss/Boban
(04-26-2022, 08:56 AM)HAguiar95 Wrote: [ -> ]Obviously it's not our #1 plan (not losing JB and getting a starting caliber big should be our priorities), but if it comes to the point of saving money due to JB's payday, how about doing a swap with ORL (FA is after the draft, so it'd have to well calculated)?
DAL gets: #32
ORL gets Burke (Maybe Brown or Boban too?), #26
We shed some money AND we get a 2nd rounder we could sign as a two-way (also open a roster spot).
Doncic/Dinwiddie/Ntilikina
Brunson*/Hardaway/Brown
Bullock/Green
Finney-Smith/Bertans
Powell/Kleber/Chriss/Boban
I am guessing the roster crunch gets addressed as part of our acquiring front court help. What makes most sense would be to send out two players (or more likely a salary filler and our pick) to get a starting center (ideally sending out more salary than coming in).
(04-26-2022, 08:56 AM)HAguiar95 Wrote: [ -> ]Obviously it's not our #1 plan (not losing JB and getting a starting caliber big should be our priorities), but if it comes to the point of saving money due to JB's payday, how about doing a swap with ORL (FA is after the draft, so it'd have to well calculated)?
DAL gets: #32
ORL gets Burke (Maybe Brown or Boban too?), #26
We shed some money AND we get a 2nd rounder we could sign as a two-way (also open a roster spot).
Doncic/Dinwiddie/Ntilikina
Brunson*/Hardaway/Brown
Bullock/Green
Finney-Smith/Bertans
Powell/Kleber/Chriss/Boban
Can't you accomplish the roster thinning by doing a draft and stash at #26. I note that Kamagate is up to #31 on the Tankathon board.
I'm not sure they are going to do anything more than try to retain Brunson this summer. I think your depth chart is spot on if you simply put Burke back in as the 3rd PG, move Frank to 3rd SG and Brown to 3rd SF. Looking at the various positions...
C: We might as well stop trying to trade Boban. It isn't happening. Powell and Kleber more than hold their own. Powell with the starters (sans KP) have a net rating of 14.1 in 40 games. The Mav's close with Maxi and have been one of the best clutch lineups in the league post the trade. Are we THAT much better getting a grizzled old vet to replace Chriss, or could he develop into something.
PF: Yes, Bertans as a backup gets smoked on individual matchups time and time again. Yet, he's almost always an on-court and on-minus-off positive. DFS isn't going anywhere. Nuff said.
Ball Handling: Assuming JB is back, he, Luka and Dinwiddie will eat up almost all the minutes at PG/SG. Burke and Frank are perfectly fine as backups.
Wings: When everyone is healthy, there are basically 48 minutes (give or take a couple) to split between Reggie, Tim and Green. Everyone is never healthy, so these guys will average more than 48 combined, but Reggie and Tim probably expect to get about 30 and Josh should be getting about 16. There just simply isn't enough time to go around. With that said, I wonder if the team would prefer to see how things look with THJ back rather than dumping him on the cheap in the summer. We don't have to worry about being a repeater tax team this coming year.
I'd hate that that plan (retaining THJ) would push Green to the bench, but if you trade THJ for a C, you are pushing a $16mm guy (Bertans) to the bench instead of a $3mm guy. Yes, Powell moves to the bench and Maxi moves to backup PF. But, I think we've talked about this enough to know that "that" guy who does all of the things Maxi and Powell can do well and rebound and team defend while also protecting the rim just doesn't exist. So, the center you trade for better be absolutely dominant at something. Otherwise, I'm not sure we can easily improve upon the diverse skills of the platoon we have.
(04-28-2022, 07:02 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: [ -> ]I'm not sure they are going to do anything more than try to retain Brunson this summer.
A safe bet would be like this. Also just trying (and fail) to retain Brunson would sadly be also a very Mavs like move based on experience in past years
However, I trully hope we will see more.
I think a lot depends on the playoffs. We are hyped now but Mavs didn't even win the first round yet. If Mavs win it all or come very close, than there is not much need to do anything, of course. Although even in that case the best teams are always looking for improvements. THJ and Bertans certainly look like contracts that could get upgraded for more significant players. While Ntilikina and Chriss are cheap youngsters with theoretical upside, Brown and Burke are basically dead weight. Their role in regular season could be probably easily replaced by cheaper and younger or better players (or both) - either some youngsters or vet min vets.
But what if Mavs exit in next round or even WCF? Wouldn't that be just another indicator that simply working around the edges is not enough to transform this team into true contender? That bigger upgrades are needed? I would be really dissapointed if Mavs would just run it back in such a scenario.
Powell and Maxi might work good enough now, but they have considerable limitations. Maxi has been basically a zero offensively in 2 out of 5 games against Utah and had a bad game 1 in addition. Unless the opponent chooses to leave him completely open, he can't contribute much. Powell didn't provide much offensively without Luka. I totally agree they are great defensively and sure the team is winning and their plus/minus is positive. But how can we claim a better player in their place wouldn't have even higher +- and the wins wouldn't be even bigger? They both entered their thirties and are on expiring contracts. I would say this might be best time to upgrade one or both, if the opportunity comes.
Playoffs also show that we desperately need another wing in the mix as Bullock and DFS are playing crazy minutes. I can't really see THJ as an adequate replacement of any of them. Sure we can hope Green will improve more, but is that really enough? Couldn't we be much better if we upgrade one of them?
Another thing to consider. Utah is a team without a true dangerous big wing with Bogi coming closely to that. Even he was a problem in a couple of games. How are the Mavs equipped to fight against some of those teams with big wings? Clippers for example, Denver will be huge with Jokic-MPJ-Gordon trio.
These are all the reasons I would look very hard to upgrade the team. Doesn't have to be a star, but a better center (Turner, Holmes and perhaps Wood would fit the prototype that would fit the Mavs system) and a big two way wing would certainly be among offseason goals for me.
The Mavs have to upgrade their bench, and they should be able to no matter what happens with JB.
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