(05-15-2025, 03:14 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Any of these get you excited.  This is from Issac Harris.  I am just not sure Smart has it any longer.    Probably not the ideal person for the role we need.  Melton too.  Both good defenders though. Brogdon could be a stop gap option.  Tough to get a read on him as he was on a awful team.  I saw him play once or twice and he was not good.  The situation may have been a big factor. Fultz is in the same boat as DSJ.  He looked a little bigger than he needs to be when I saw him in Sacramento.  Sacramento had no point guards and he really didn't get run.


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from last night. some PGs i’m watching as realistic targets for mavs

trade - lonzo ball & marcus smart

fa - chris paul, markelle fultz, deanthony melton, malcolm brogdon

(05-15-2025, 03:17 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Any/all of them bring something to the table that makes the team better. I wouldn't say any of them are "exciting," really. 

Question: it's clear Jaden Hardy has become a total afterthought around here, and for pretty good reason. Is there any reason to think the Mavs might hold out some hope that there's still some potential there, or do we think they're done with him, too?

(05-15-2025, 03:17 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Any/all of them bring something to the table that makes the team better. I wouldn't say any of them are "exciting," really. 

Question: it's clear Jaden Hardy has become a total afterthought around here, and for pretty good reason. Is there any reason to think the Mavs might hold out some hope that there's still some potential there, or do we think they're done with him, too?

(05-15-2025, 03:24 PM)cow Wrote: The last time I saw Marcus Smart, he looked huge.  Is he washed?  

(05-15-2025, 03:26 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Quite washed, yes. And more expensive than he should be, contractually. It's not a great dream.

(05-15-2025, 03:26 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Quite washed, yes. And more expensive than he should be, contractually. It's not a great dream.

(05-15-2025, 05:05 PM)omahen Wrote: Smart definitely had a couple of bad seasons in Memphis. But, he is not that old being 31. And he should be very cheap due to his bad seasons, plus he is expiring. Wouldn't be the first time a player like that turned it around. NBA teams have way more information than we do and I would be fine with a trade for him. I guess he could be interesting for both Mavs and Lakers

(05-15-2025, 07:00 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I have never been a fan in the first place, personally, and I am even less interested now, since what the Mavs are lacking creates a void he'd try to fill by doing more of the thing I've always hated watching him try to do, play PG. 

A 3&D guy who can also handle and create a little? GOLD.

A 3&D guy who seems convinced he should actually be featured on offense and always seems to be searching for opportunities to prove it? YUCK.

(05-15-2025, 03:17 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Any/all of them bring something to the table that makes the team better. I wouldn't say any of them are "exciting," really. 

Question: it's clear Jaden Hardy has become a total afterthought around here, and for pretty good reason. Is there any reason to think the Mavs might hold out some hope that there's still some potential there, or do we think they're done with him, too?

(05-15-2025, 09:00 PM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: I think Brandon Williams sealed Hardy's fate. They probably won't keep both and Williams played well, and leapfrogged him in the rotation the end of the year. But then again, do they even keep Williams? What's Dinwiddie's status?

(05-15-2025, 10:20 PM)myconsumerclub Wrote: https://www.espn.com/nba/trademachine?tradeId=ytxzflxd
Caleb and Gafford gets you Lonzo

(05-16-2025, 12:43 AM)SleepingHero Wrote:  
But we still have PJ, Naji, Martin, Klay, OMax and Kessler Edwards.

The depth chart currently looks like:

Kyrie/------/ B-Will
Klay/Christie/Hardy
Cooper/Naji/Martin
AD/PJ/OMax/Edwards
Lively/Gafford/Powell

(05-16-2025, 01:11 AM)F Gump Wrote: I keep seeing this posted, and I don't know where it comes from ...

But Edwards is not now, nor has he ever been, nor is he set up to be, a member of the Mavs 15-man roster. (Nor do I see any good reason to think they will sign him, since his position is one that is absolutely overloaded with signed players already.)

(05-16-2025, 07:25 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: I forgot that Edward’s 2-way eligibility has expired when I posted that, but regardless I believe the reasons why you keep seeing it posted is because Edward’s was a small bright spot in the 2nd half of the season. He was shown to be more playable than OMax at times.


But the logistics of keeping him might just be too great. Hopefully he can stick with the Legends.