2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[omahen]

Not interested. Mavs have enough small guards and he isn´t an upgrade over Wright, Curry or even Brunson. His bad 3-point percentage is the biggest red flag for me.

He is experienced and a winner. 17,5 PPG and 6 assists is a clear imrovement over any of the mentioned guards. He is actually capable of running the show when Luka is resting and probably also together with Luka. His 3PT shooting percentage is much higher than Barea had last season, for example. Rose was 37 % last and is 33 % this season, which is not terrible.

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I love the version of Chris Paul.  If only his contract wasn't such an albatross.

I already made several arguments in different posts. If the price would be Lee and THJ, I would seriously consider bringing him. He is a clutch winner, exactly what this team seems to miss this season. At that price, we keep all our picks, our MLE next season and still have a lot of contracts we could use in trades for upgrades. We would have the possibility to build an extremely competitive team. Let's say Millsap type for MLE and trade one or two of our contracts plus our picks (2020 first, GSW 2nd, 2025 first,...) for a good guard/wing like RoCo, Hayward, Bogdanovic (SnT) or Fournier.

This is how we would look right now:
Doncic, Brunson and Wright
Paul, Seth
DFS, JJ
Powell, Maxi
KP, Boban


A couple of more moves - who says this is not an immediate contender for the next two seasons. Perfect combination of excellent youth and extremely experienced vets that want to win. Great defensive and offensive guys. Excellent starters and still good bench (still possible to add decent vets for min salary):
Doncic, Brunson or Wright
Paul, Seth or Reaves or some min vet
Bogdanovic, DFS and JJ
Millsap, Maxi
KP, Powell 

I think this hypothetical Paul move is, unlike many others, very "black and white". Either it will be great or completely blow up in our face. I see it working great unless:
- he completely falls of the cliff at some point in next two seasons to become unusable
- he kills the chemistry

I doubt any of the above would happen. Other than that, the only change this move brings is we likely lose our 2021 pipedream. Personally I am against the strategy that is focused on having cap space in 2021 instead of focused on making us better.