(06-26-2023, 09:31 PM)RoyTarpleysGhost Wrote: Will be an interesting season.  After the draft, everyone is hyped up about prospects and all of them will be great, cheap rotation players.  Let's hope it turns out that way. 

If Prosper is bricking open corner 3s and Lively can't stay in front of anyone in the pick and roll, how patient will everyone (coaches, fans, Luka, Kyrie) be?

I'm honestly 50/50 right now which will happen.

(06-26-2023, 05:39 PM)Jason Terry Wrote: Yes. You could tell Nico was serious. This is the way. We have the young core of Hardy/Green/O-Max/Lively led by Luka. They will all play immediately. And this is who we build around long term

The flip side to the “young 5” is to find the right veterans around them. Kyrie, Maxi, and THJ i think are guys who compliment the young 5 well. We still need 2 more of the right type players. Perfect to me would be Bruce Brown and G Williams. But, those type of guys

This is going to be a good team that sneaks up on folks by the end of the year. It’s going to be so much fun to watch and i can’t wait. I’m honestly looking at flying out to Vegas for summer league

(06-26-2023, 09:31 PM)RoyTarpleysGhost Wrote: Will be an interesting season.  After the draft, everyone is hyped up about prospects and all of them will be great, cheap rotation players.  Let's hope it turns out that way. 

If Prosper is bricking open corner 3s and Lively can't stay in front of anyone in the pick and roll, how patient will everyone (coaches, fans, Luka, Kyrie) be?

I'm honestly 50/50 right now which will happen.

(06-27-2023, 07:22 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: Have the Mavs made any comments on Holmes yet?  Are they not able to due to the trade not being official?  Has anything leaked though?  Any comments from Holmes?

(06-27-2023, 10:00 AM)F Gump Wrote: 1 He's not a Mav. They can't discuss him.
2 The only leak (as per the norm) is the looming trade itself. 
3 For all we know, he may never be a Mav. I suspect he is being mentioned in trade talks.

(06-26-2023, 08:49 PM)cow Wrote: They just gave THJ a new jersey number because that is the MBT's favorite number to trade.

(06-27-2023, 04:09 PM)Knutsen Wrote: So how is O‘Max a Mav already? Can you change draft picks or rights for a drafted player earlier than the other moving parts?

(06-27-2023, 06:13 PM)F Gump Wrote: Technically O'Max is not yet a Mav.

Yet the fact he will be one soon has been no secret. In past days, any mention by the league (or the teams) would have all waited until the trade was actually finalized and approved. But this year Silver "announced" trades of picks in almost real time during the draft, and with some of them using verbiage saying these draft picks have been swapped in a deal to be finalized later. But it was only the picks - where they were headed - that got announced. I don't know why.

(06-27-2023, 06:13 PM)F Gump Wrote: Technically O'Max is not yet a Mav.

Yet the fact he will be one soon has been no secret. In past days, any mention by the league (or the teams) would have all waited until the trade was actually finalized and approved. But this year Silver "announced" trades of picks in almost real time during the draft, and with some of them using verbiage saying these draft picks have been swapped in a deal to be finalized later. But it was only the picks - where they were headed - that got announced. I don't know why.

(06-27-2023, 06:59 PM)SkenfromLMF Wrote: So on a technicality of the CBA the players under contract cannot be discussed by other team until the trade is official - tampering
However the player's draft rights do not "contract" them. The league is trying to adjust so that all of the photos are not of Luka wearing the Hawks hat and Trae wearing the Mavs'.
One of the best things about the NFL draft is "we have a trade to announce" unfortunately the league has a moratorium on the picks being traded the day of... until the pick is announced.

Some of those deals are held up by the Stepien rule - way to go Norm Sonju.
BTW speaking of Norms, Hitzges retired the morning after the draft - He was the latest of the Dallas media Mount Rushmore to retire: Sherrod, Galloway, Norm, Reiner, Brad Sham.