(07-05-2024, 02:56 PM)DL2RimRocker Wrote: I think we need more scoring from the bench and Dinwiddie can do that more than DSJ. We have Exum and Grimes who can guard the perimeter but bench scoring is still a need imo.

(07-05-2024, 01:21 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: The thing I keep coming back to when I look at the roster is that the Mavs are going into the year with three potential free agents, all expected to be in the rotation (at the least the regular season rotation), and are already a tax team at the first Apron. Also, if Kyrie has another good year he will absolutely want to negotiate a new deal, and can opt of his last year, I believe. Neither the Mavs nor Kyrie will want him playing on a one-year expiring the season after this one - that player option is basically just there to protect him from injury. They have probably already started thinking about an extension.

Add that all up, and there is a 0% chance that Exum, Hardy AND Grimes are all Mavericks after this season, imo. It might even be too much to hope to keep two of them. Surely, they see this situation coming. The question is, what will they do about it? If Hardy is not in your plans, as in basically guaranteed a fairly juicy rotation role (I hope he is, I think he's ready to contribute), then I think keeping him here after the deadline, or possibly even to start the season, would be a pretty big mistake. He's not some insanely hot asset or anything, but he is more valuable than he will be at the deadline if he's not playing, and teams no longer get the full season to look at him with their rosters before deciding how much they can pay in a rookie extension.

Kind of the same situation with Grimes, only Dallas is the team who's planning to use the full season "to look at him with their roster before deciding how much they can pay in an extension"...or, if they even want to keep him.

I suppose Exum is cheap and easy come, easy go. Out of all of them, I can see him as someone they'd be comfortable just walking away for nothing, and I could also see him being the most likely to accept a very team-friendly deal to return.

I'd bet they're thinking about this stuff totally differently than we are.

(07-05-2024, 03:28 PM)RGP1981 Wrote: Oooooohhh, now he gets it, finally, lol. This is why you all should not have scoffed at the Kyrie-Dejounte swaps I kept proposing. There'd be no difference in the on-court impact to the team if Mavs had gone with Dejounte... but now y'alls balls are going to be squeezed hard by a 33 year old who still can't get over the Celtics... all while the Celtics (and OKC) are going to be the biggest rivals for a title in the next few years (until its Wemby's turn to win, and the Spurs won't waste as many years of "his turn to win" like the Mavs have done with Luka)... and while Dejounte is locked up at $28m, $30m and $32m for this upcoming season as well as the next two. $30M vs $45M? That's a lot of wiggle room. Wiggle Room is the new NBA buzzword, or should have been months ago, lol. #wigglewiggle

(07-05-2024, 03:38 PM)BigDirk41 Wrote: Literally nobody wants to trade Kyrie for Murray. Literally nobody thinks they are equal players either. Not interested at all in the move.

(07-05-2024, 04:09 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: @TheDunkCentral
Golden State has a 'heavily pick-based' offer on the table for Lauri Markkanen, per @Tjonesonthenba

"Golden State has an offer on the table and it's substantial [for Lauri Markkanen]. I think offers are heavily pick-based... What complicates it is the Warriors only have two unprotected picks, plus a protected first rounder."

(Via
@957thegame
)

(07-05-2024, 03:38 PM)BigDirk41 Wrote: Literally nobody wants to trade Kyrie for Murray. Literally nobody thinks they are equal players either. Not interested at all in the move.

(07-05-2024, 04:23 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: It's so funny to me he consistently is trying to break up the team that is 3 weeks off of a finals appearance and dominated the West for literally no reason for a player who is objectively worse.

He was spouting the same nonsense about Murray in January and how this Maverick team is closer to the lottery than a championship.

(07-05-2024, 04:12 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: If this is true, Ainge should take it. The assets you'll get for Markkannen are never going to get better than unprotected GS picks from a future time when the Warriors are very likely to be one of the worst teams in the league.

(07-05-2024, 04:23 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: It's so funny to me he consistently is trying to break up the team that is 3 weeks off of a finals appearance and dominated the West for literally no reason for a player who is objectively worse.

He was spouting the same nonsense about Murray in January and how this Maverick team is closer to the lottery than a championship.

(07-05-2024, 05:08 PM)SwisherPrice Wrote: Out of those guards that have been mentioned, it's all about Kyle Lowry for me...if he's interested (which we haven't heard any indication). He's a proven champion and Kidd would trust him. Also he's still a good shooter and can fit this offense as a floor spacer. Whoever they sign probably won't be in the rotation every game so it basically comes down to being that 2022 Trey Burke "Break-In-Case-Of-An-Emergency" role. I think Lowry can go in and contribute to some games when called upon.

(07-05-2024, 05:08 PM)SwisherPrice Wrote: Out of those guards that have been mentioned, it's all about Kyle Lowry for me...if he's interested (which we haven't heard any indication). He's a proven champion and Kidd would trust him. Also he's still a good shooter and can fit this offense as a floor spacer. Whoever they sign probably won't be in the rotation every game so it basically comes down to being that 2022 Trey Burke "Break-In-Case-Of-An-Emergency" role. I think Lowry can go in and contribute to some games when called upon.

(07-05-2024, 11:32 AM)F Gump Wrote:  
Can't wait forever, and they are really at a crossroads now.  Right now his payroll cost is minimum salary, but next summer there will be teams competing. Do we even have something that can be more than a 3rd string chucker? I still dunno.

But I sure don't want to be forced to pay him a lot of money to be what he is. Not sure if I am seeing progress on the huge holes in his game. If so, it seems small.

So do you move him (like NY and DET did with Grimes) so that you might get a little something and not have to deal with the situation (and either a cap hit, or he's gone for nothing) next summer? Do you offer an extension?

(07-05-2024, 05:08 PM)SwisherPrice Wrote: Out of those guards that have been mentioned, it's all about Kyle Lowry for me...if he's interested (which we haven't heard any indication). He's a proven champion and Kidd would trust him. Also he's still a good shooter and can fit this offense as a floor spacer. Whoever they sign probably won't be in the rotation every game so it basically comes down to being that 2022 Trey Burke "Break-In-Case-Of-An-Emergency" role. I think Lowry can go in and contribute to some games when called upon.

(07-05-2024, 09:32 PM)Ghost of Podkolzin Wrote: I just don't think Lowry has anything left in the tank.