(06-28-2021, 12:28 PM)jesusshuttlesworth82 Wrote: Can we fast forward two months?

(06-28-2021, 05:25 PM)StepBackJay Wrote: Would be nice

(06-28-2021, 06:18 PM)mvossman Wrote: The new regime was not brought in to draft.  They were brought in to recruit.

(06-28-2021, 08:33 PM)fifteenth Wrote: Nico will get us all the draft picks, and all the free agents

(06-29-2021, 03:31 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: I want to spend a little time talking about freeing up picks for superstar trades. 

(06-29-2021, 01:51 AM)Aussiebballer Wrote: Any euro poster have a scouting report on Mike Tobey?
6’11” 26yr big playing for Slovenia ?? 
Had 6 alley oops plays with Luka in one warm up game recently

(06-29-2021, 05:36 AM)omahen Wrote: Thanks for the great elaborate. I am not so convinced Houston would be willing to give picks to get rid of Gordon, because why would they? They have to spend salary on someone and their main task is to gather picks, not give them away. Even bad ones. But nevertheless, my conclusion would be - where is a will there is a way. It is just a question how much would it cost. Perhaps OKC or Houston would give us their worst pick for Brunson. Mavs can create ability to offer 2022, 2024 and 2026 unprotected picks. Problem that remains is that we can't really offer much else, especially if KP value is really very low. Yesterday I gave an example of three team trade with Washington and Portland, that would give us following team before exception money:

Luka, Terry
Dame, JRich
DFS, Hutchinson, Bey
Kleber, Bertans
Powell, WCS

Calculate zero assets for a foreseable future. Is this really a team that screams multiple titles? A team that would give Dame confidence to come? Can exception money cover all the holes?

(06-29-2021, 03:31 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Getting a fully unprotected pick is uncommon.

(06-29-2021, 04:13 AM)Aussiebballer Wrote: Sounds like it will be a lot easier to acquire a 2023 pick after next season when teams  are more confident of where they will finish in 2023.
So we may have to wait and try to accumulate assets for a year.

(06-29-2021, 07:33 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: But I think the best chance for our own "Jrue Holiday" trade may be 2 years from now.   Improve your top end talent with a FA signing or two, Develop your young kids, and keep your solid players on good or expiring contracts.   Once we are past our first round picks commitment, we may have a much better war chest down the road.   I do agree that '23 pick is tricky, but I don't know paying 1.50 on the dollar to resolve it now may not be the best move.

(06-28-2021, 08:13 PM)Kammrath Wrote: Yes, primarily. But everything I have read about Nico points to him having an eye for talent that SHOULD translate to drafting as well.

(06-29-2021, 08:40 AM)HanspardsShowerVoice Wrote: Yeah, I don't think Nico is just the Mavs version of World Wide Wes who is some player agent/mentor recruiter, although that will be part of his job and part of the appeal.

(06-29-2021, 08:40 AM)HanspardsShowerVoice Wrote: Yeah, I don't think Nico is just the Mavs version of World Wide Wes who is some player agent/mentor recruiter, although that will be part of his job and part of the appeal.   


Brian Demaris was on the Hardline talking about Nico and he stressed this.   Nico didn't sell shoes or write marketing ads.  He oversaw a group that scouted, recruited and serviced players.   Nike has professional scouts on staff.  They are at college and international games sitting right next to the team scouts.  They try to identify them at a young age, then negotiate a contract and see them through that process and then service them.  Nico oversaw a large department with a lot of employees.   DeMaris was talking to someone inside the Mavs building about the hire and while DeMaris was going on about what a smart and charismatic guy Nico was, it was stressed to him by his source that Nico is a also great manager. 

DeMaris said when he was in the Mavs basketball ops in 2002, there were 10 people in the department.   Now there's 50.   Health, player development, nutrition experts, scouting, analytics, etc.   DeMaris kinda implied that the dysfunctional that has been unearthed in the front office the past few weeks stems from not having  a great managers to handle and coordinate all these people.   Donnie is a "basketball guy" and probably has great basketball sources and buddies all around the globe that he can go out and  get great information from over beers, but the attention to detail and coordinating and overseeing 50 employees is not who he is.   The demands of the job have outgrown Donnie's skillsets over time, imho.

(06-29-2021, 08:44 AM)Kammrath Wrote: Thanks for this great post. Shocking that someone spoke to the issue and didn't just pile on in making fun of me.

(06-29-2021, 08:40 AM)HanspardsShowerVoice Wrote: Yeah, I don't think Nico is just the Mavs version of World Wide Wes who is some player agent/mentor recruiter, although that will be part of his job and part of the appeal.