(05-14-2025, 03:22 PM)RoyTarpleysGhost Wrote: [NBA on ESPN] "The Mavericks will be pursuing a point guard, whether that's in the trade market, in free agency." @ShamsCharania on how the Mavs plan to build around their potential "Big 3" ?

(05-15-2025, 12:01 AM)F Gump Wrote: CP3 is not a realistic option for the Mavs, no matter how well he might fit. No way to get him.

(05-15-2025, 12:06 AM)F Gump Wrote: Thank you, Shams "Captain Obvious" C.

The Mavs only PG on the entire roster until Kyrie is healed (assuming that happens) is Williams. The idea they need and will work to find someone to fill that hole goes without saying.

(05-15-2025, 04:01 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: I agree that point guard is the obvious need, but given how the team has been run recently, I’m actually glad to know he’s tweeting this, because it means he got someone from the team to say so. For me, it’s comforting to know, they are seeing the same obvious things we are seeing. A low standard, I know.

(05-15-2025, 09:42 AM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: PJW is expendable in my mind. CF is more of a SF that can slide to PF on occasion. PJW plays better as a PF, than a SF.  He struggles vs some of the better SF's in the league. Then you have Marshall who I think is slightly better than PJW and can swing between both positions. One of them will be expendable with CF on the scene now.

(05-15-2025, 09:42 AM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: PJW is expendable in my mind. CF is more of a SF that can slide to PF on occasion. PJW plays better as a PF, than a SF.  He struggles vs some of the better SF's in the league. Then you have Marshall who I think is slightly better than PJW and can swing between both positions. One of them will be expendable with CF on the scene now.

(05-15-2025, 12:00 PM)Jym Wrote: Just comes down to the contract for me 
There is no way we pay him enough to keep him around past next year. Just not going to happen 
So we either trade him or he walks for nothing

(05-15-2025, 04:16 AM)F Gump Wrote: I don't think he's talked to anyone -- just observing the situation, and stating the obvious that we all see AS IF he has something. He does this regularly (with never even a claim that "sources" said it). And it's always stupidly-obvious "news" of what's ahead.

Thinking to recent examples, he did it with the 'news flash' idea that BOS might make changes this summer. (Ya think? With a payroll exceeding 500M looming, how is that news?)

(05-15-2025, 02:29 PM)F Gump Wrote: About PJW, I agree with those saying that what happens with him depends on the size of his next contract, but I'm not convinced he will be impossibly expensive. The reset with the new economics has removed the idea that every decent player gets a max deal, because the resulting payroll totals just don't work within hard cap constraints.

Several factors are probably in play with PJW that point in varying directions on value and preferences. He's still just 26. He has had the experience of playing on a crappy going-nowhere team and won't want to do that again. He's a Dallas kid and likes playing here. (He needs 2 more seasons in Dallas to be able to ask for a no-trade clause on a deal, fwiw.) And his financial demands were not met in his last negotiation because his game contribution does have some limits (in particular, on the offensive end, where the money is). There's no way to know how he might view the Luka trade, whether it makes this a place not to be or not to trust, or whether he's secretly glad the Mavs moved a player who might not have been as committed to hard work and defense as he'd like. Or what he might think of the addition of Flagg, who adds skills but also adds competition for minutes. Players like lots of available minutes.

Will PJW get a raise? Yep. But how much of a raise will matter as to whether the Mavs can feasibly keep him, and whether he wants to extend. They will continue to need strong rotation players at medium sized salaries when they can get them. They can afford him at the right price.