08-09-2021, 12:11 PM
Ultimately I always said they should look at this as a gap year, where they position themselves better for the future by keeping the projected level of the team the same, but add more room for improvement and better trade assets (and yes that always means gettting younger, cause that´s how this works). The Mavs managed to keep the team at the same level and do absolutely nothing to add to their bare asset stock. Even the one piece they did add (Moses Brown) was seemingly more a cap necessity and he might still be waived.
It´s not that the team didn´t get better. It´s that the future didn´t either.
We haven´t added any reclamation projects, neither on the lower or higher end. You add Bagley and Diallo to our bench, just by default one of them will average 15+ points, cause somebody has to. That goes a major way toward this star trade THEY are looking for. Just draft picks will not get this done, because the other team always has to present their fanbase some quantified (young) talent, not Dwight Powell, Maxi Kleber and Trey Burke.
It´s not that the team didn´t get better. It´s that the future didn´t either.
We haven´t added any reclamation projects, neither on the lower or higher end. You add Bagley and Diallo to our bench, just by default one of them will average 15+ points, cause somebody has to. That goes a major way toward this star trade THEY are looking for. Just draft picks will not get this done, because the other team always has to present their fanbase some quantified (young) talent, not Dwight Powell, Maxi Kleber and Trey Burke.