(03-02-2021, 12:08 PM)HanspardShowerVoice Wrote: Brunson is a lot closer to FVV in value than where the average Mav Fan ranks him (which is WAY below his value).    FVV is worth 4/$85 contradct, and he's never even come close to sniffing an All Star game or 3rd Team All NBA nomination.    You don't have to be a star to be an extremely valuable player. 

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There's 250 trade proposals on Mavs boards every day with fans tying themselves into knots wondering how they can get ahold of "core players on bad teams".   Here we have one in house that doesn't cost us anything to attain, and he just so happens to be 24 years old, noticeably improving from year to year  and (right now) ridiculously cheap.  He should be valued and appreciated accordingly.

(03-02-2021, 12:08 PM)HanspardShowerVoice Wrote: There's 250 trade proposals on Mavs boards every day with fans tying themselves into knots wondering how they can get ahold of "core players on bad teams".   Here we have one in house that doesn't cost us anything to attain, and he just so happens to be 24 years old, noticeably improving from year to year  and (right now) ridiculously cheap.  He should be valued and appreciated accordingly.

(03-02-2021, 01:01 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: On my rewatch this morning, I opted for the home broadcast (went with @mavsluvr's fine call last night).

(03-02-2021, 01:41 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: I don't know why, but this still always catches me by surprise, haha.

(03-02-2021, 01:44 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Whatever you say, Clark Kent.

(03-02-2021, 01:01 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: On my rewatch this morning, I opted for the home broadcast (went with @"mavsluvr"'s fine call last night). 

The Magic broadcasters, after years of seeing sub-par PG play hold their team back, spent basically the entire game heaping praise all over Brunson. More than Luka, even. 

"He does so many things well.'
"Great pick and roll player."
"Such a crafty left-hander"

And many more. 

Most players have warts, but I really think we're watching a nice player come into his own here. Good PG play is sort of a hallmark of our Mavs, so we might have slightly unrealistic expectations, kind of like Cowboys fans have for their quarterbacks.

(03-03-2021, 01:49 AM)embellisher Wrote: The past couple of games, Brunson has been part of the closing unit. You guys think this is developmental, or a Carlisle experiment to see if it works? 

Do you think that RC is letting him play through mistakes in the closing unit to develop him as a permanent part of that unit? He's been great in the fourth until the last 3 or 4 minutes, and then he makes turnovers or misses open shots, shots that he made earlier in the quarter, and missing FTs.

(03-02-2021, 12:43 PM)dynamicalVoid Wrote:  
Can I ask you how much you think Terry Rozier's next contract will be?

(03-03-2021, 09:22 AM)HanspardShowerVoice Wrote: Hard to say because he won't hit the market in another 1.5 years and valuations and performances can fluctuate a lot over that time span ... but if the regular season ended today and he hit the market immediately following, I would assume it would be pretty big considering he's the best player on a playoff team.

(03-03-2021, 10:49 AM)HanspardShowerVoice Wrote: Honestly, if Rozier keeps this up for another 1.5 years he could be looking at a max or near max.   Maybe he might be overpaid, but that's what the market offers like Gordon Haywood.   It just takes one small market team willing to pay a premium because they know that's the only way they can get draw talent.   

Yeah, I'm not sure THJ right now is really that overpaid by 2021 standards.    Since THJ has improved his 3 point shooting to the ~39% range while he's been with the Mavs,  I think he is pretty similar to Bogdan Bogdanovic, who got $18 million per season on the open market at the same age as THJ.     Its sometimes hard to adjust that a player is overpaid early in his contract becomes properly paid or even underpaid as his skillset changes and/or the market rate for the skillset inflates.  

 Now the question is whether I want to pay THJ his market rate or if I would rather pay another player his market rate with my finite amount of cap space.   And that's where my Brunson appreciation really kicks in ... because good luck finding point guards who can run your offense and effective score off the dribble who aren't 87 years old and could fall off the production cliff at any moment (DeRozan, Conley, Kyle Lowrey) or just complete trainwrecks on defense.   And while Brunson 's 115 career defensive  rating isn't world beating it's servicable ... there's a lot of offensive point guards out there who are running layup drills.    So for me, on Brunson, it's not just the production but the scarcity.

(03-11-2021, 08:32 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: The Spurs are a difficult matchup for Brunson.  They are really tall and long.  With the exception of Patty Mills, but he is really hard to guard.    

I am not saying he shouldn't get heavy minutes against the Spurs of the world, but there will games like last night where he is much less impactful than he has been for most of this year.

I liked this breakdown that I saw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOEFz4V9d14

(03-11-2021, 11:46 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: Overall not a bad game but he made some questionable decisions in the first quarter. I just don´t think he is a real PG. More of a Terry/McCollum/LouWill. Undersized SG. Gifted scorer but he is not creating open looks for his teammates.

(03-03-2021, 01:49 AM)embellisher Wrote: The past couple of games, Brunson has been part of the closing unit. You guys think this is developmental, or a Carlisle experiment to see if it works? 

Do you think that RC is letting him play through mistakes in the closing unit to develop him as a permanent part of that unit? He's been great in the fourth until the last 3 or 4 minutes, and then he makes turnovers or misses open shots, shots that he made earlier in the quarter, and missing FTs.