(02-09-2024, 07:05 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Man, I have to stop checking in with people’s opinions of these trades. The guys from Dunc’d On are some of my favorites. They understand the cap, the rules, are comfortable dealing in advance stats, but also clearly watch pretty much every single NBA game that ever happens and so the they always have educated opinions about these players. They trashed the Mavs’ moves even more than others.

“Several more arrows going out of the quiver, with no championship-level starters coming in”

“They added two more seventh men to a team full of seventh men and paid multiple firsts to do it.”

“I guess maybe Gafford is an ok defender, but then again he is the center on the league’s worst defense. He can’t defend in the post and fouls way too much.”

“Washington is an offensive upgrade to Williams, but is he going to hit more of the standstill shots? Are they actually going to use the things that he can do better than Williams?”

“They now don’t control their pic for basically a four year block, and you have to imagine that at least one of those years will include a top 10 pick, unless they’re able to retain Luka for that entire time, which these moves make me less sure of.” (Other guy) “Agreed.”

On and on and on. I am getting thoroughly depressed listening to this stuff. The Lowe Post didn’t like the moves much, either.

I think we might’ve just witnessed the nail in the Luka Doncic era coffin.

(02-09-2024, 07:05 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Man, I have to stop checking in with people’s opinions of these trades. The guys from Dunc’d On are some of my favorites. They understand the cap, the rules, are comfortable dealing in advance stats, but also clearly watch pretty much every single NBA game that ever happens and so the they always have educated opinions about these players. They trashed the Mavs’ moves even more than others.

“Several more arrows going out of the quiver, with no championship-level starters coming in”

“They added two more seventh men to a team full of seventh men and paid multiple firsts to do it.”

“I guess maybe Gafford is an ok defender, but then again he is the center on the league’s worst defense. He can’t defend in the post and fouls way too much.”

“Washington is an offensive upgrade to Williams, but is he going to hit more of the standstill shots? Are they actually going to use the things that he can do better than Williams?”

“They now don’t control their pic for basically a four year block, and you have to imagine that at least one of those years will include a top 10 pick, unless they’re able to retain Luka for that entire time, which these moves make me less sure of.” (Other guy) “Agreed.”

On and on and on. I am getting thoroughly depressed listening to this stuff. The Lowe Post didn’t like the moves much, either.

I think we might’ve just witnessed the nail in the Luka Doncic era coffin.

(02-09-2024, 07:45 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: More sobering thoughts:

https://youtube.com/shorts/MnykWXIkt0E?si=SC4BrbrHXHi5dWDP

(02-09-2024, 12:50 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Oh, sure they will! It’s just that you and I see different strategies for how to deal with that. 

You seem to care about matching up with them, whereas I see an opportunity to punish them easily for even attempting to play some slow-footed, single-brain-cell dinosaur in a basketball game against my team of movers and shooters. 

Earlier this season, I claimed that I would not be scared one bit of playing the Minnesota Timberwolves in a seven game series. I am actually more frightened of that prospect now than I was before the trade deadline, because the economics of the mavericks roster indicate that they believe as you do, that you have to throw big players at KAT, Gobert and Reid. That seems silly to me, because we literally watched our own mavericks team create the blueprint for how to beat Gobert, and it involved Kleber hitting 8 threes from the corner in a single game and Gobert looking like he did not even belong in the NBA.

They WANT you to try to matchup with their size. That is their entire strategy. That is how they beat you. They have zigged, and the way to beat them is to zag. Plus, it’s just a cooler way of playing basketball that is 1000 times more fun to watch.

(02-09-2024, 07:49 PM)DallasMaverick Wrote: Removed by the uploader.

(02-09-2024, 07:05 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Man, I have to stop checking in with people’s opinions of these trades. The guys from Dunc’d On are some of my favorites. They understand the cap, the rules, are comfortable dealing in advance stats, but also clearly watch pretty much every single NBA game that ever happens and so the they always have educated opinions about these players. They trashed the Mavs’ moves even more than others.

“Several more arrows going out of the quiver, with no championship-level starters coming in”

“They added two more seventh men to a team full of seventh men and paid multiple firsts to do it.”

“I guess maybe Gafford is an ok defender, but then again he is the center on the league’s worst defense. He can’t defend in the post and fouls way too much.”

“Washington is an offensive upgrade to Williams, but is he going to hit more of the standstill shots? Are they actually going to use the things that he can do better than Williams?”

“They now don’t control their pic for basically a four year block, and you have to imagine that at least one of those years will include a top 10 pick, unless they’re able to retain Luka for that entire time, which these moves make me less sure of.” (Other guy) “Agreed.”

On and on and on. I am getting thoroughly depressed listening to this stuff. The Lowe Post didn’t like the moves much, either.

I think we might’ve just witnessed the nail in the Luka Doncic era coffin.

(02-09-2024, 07:56 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: It was a short of Bill Simmons doing one of his new walk-and-talks. He was basically laying out a theory that Mark Cuban has abandoned any sort of safety net for the team because he doesn’t believe he will be in charge of the team for very much longer. He’s now just throwing desperate hail Mary passes that have no chance of succeeding in a feeble attempt to salvage this season in order to assure he gets to control the next.

(02-09-2024, 08:07 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: Bill Simmons’ bias against the mavs is palpable. The dude is just homies with haralabob.

(02-09-2024, 08:11 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I am down bad, my dudes. I hope it doesn’t play out as badly as it does every time I imagine in my head.

(02-09-2024, 08:11 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I am down bad, my dudes. I hope it doesn’t play out as badly as it does every time I imagine in my head.

(02-09-2024, 08:16 PM)bodhisattva Wrote: Im gonna put some salt into this and make a prediction, that Omax will be out of the league in 2,3 years

(02-09-2024, 08:16 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: You said similar things after the second KP trade I believe my man (I know I did at least). We just got to see it on the court. I care much more about that than Kevin peltons algorithm.

(02-09-2024, 08:16 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: You said similar things after the second KP trade I believe my man (I know I did at least). We just got to see it on the court. I care much more about that than Kevin peltons algorithm.

(02-09-2024, 08:26 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I loved the second KP trade. I was ready to get his ass out of here a year and a half before that trade happened. I was calling in addition by subtraction of the day of.

I was not excited about Dinwiddie coming in, I’ll give you that.