Non Knee-Jerk Takes

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The trade - as it is, is a two-for one in terms of overpaid, underperforming pieces.  Whether it ends up good or bad on the court depends on whether KP, Dinwiddie, and/or Bertans perform better than they have in recent history.  If they all continue to play (or sit) as they have been, then the move is completely lateral on the court, and evaluation comes down to whether the Mavs can improve by moving 1 or 2 ill-fitting pieces better than they did by moving the 1 bigger ill-fitting piece.  I, personally, don't have faith that they (Cuban) can because I've watched them (Cuban) put together only one good deal (Trae Young for Luka) over the past decade.  The only time I've seen them put together a championship level supporting cast was when they did it on accident, and they immediately tore it down thinking they could just do it again.  (Sorry, that's a decade long knee-jerk).  I do think that, on paper, improvement should be easier from the position they are now in, I just don't trust them to pull it off.


The content and timing of the trade do raise a couple of questions of interest.  
1) We saw a tweet or two late in the process that suggested the Mavs were unwilling to trade DFS or Brunson.  It would be so good to see the kinds of trades they turned down.  I wonder if they made that decision late, and then were limited on what they could consider for KP alone.  
2) If Dinwiddie really was someone Cuban wanted years ago, and if Brunson and DFS were valued to the point of nixing a package trade for a potentially better player (Sabonis, Turner, McCollum, Simmons...), does that mean Cuban is still the GM, and is he overvaluing his own 2nd tier players?