(08-31-2021, 09:58 AM)omahen Wrote: 2019 was a disaster. All the mistakes Mavs made - Kemba left us at the altar (kind of happens to Dallas a lot), Miami trade fiasco, waiting like a teen in love for Green who was obviously in love with another "girl". This is before listing all the guys that would likely actually help Mavs - Brogdon (20), Bogdanovic (18), Young (15), Morris (15) just to name a few would enable Mavs to made all the other moves they made from 2019 on.
Offseason is about recruiting. If you can't convince anyone you are a better destination than other teams, than you are unsuccessful by definition. If Chicago type of teams, who couldn't even make play-in last season, are seen as a more attractive destination than Mavs, then there is no hope... So let's just look at deals some players got this summer:
- Kemba signed for 9 mil, Schroeder and Mills for 6 mil. Mavs desperately need a PG and all of those at those numbers would be a reasonable gamble. Even Dinwiddie at 18 would be an upgrade over the current secondary facilitator (oh wait, we don't have one).
- Fournier, Powell, Dinwiddie, Robinson, Trent, Ball could all be had and THJ retained with a little SnT creativity other teams showed.
- if we would lost Bullock because we wouldn't have full MLE, there were Monk, Oladipo, OPJ, Batum who all signed for vet min! Not even rMLE.
I will never get this fixation on Brogdon. But ok. I like Seth better than all of them.
I would have taken Dinwiddie, but the Mavs really didn't care about him - they might know something we don't.
We could never get a hand on Powell - Fournier yeah ok but no big difference.
Again Ball was a Bull like a year ago.
Every other player in your list is on my do-not-touch-with-a-ten-foot-pole-list.