TRADE: PJ Washington+ 2 2nds To DAL | G. Williams+ Curry+ 2027 FRP (top 2 protected)

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My biggest issue is just that we usually gladly overpay.  I generally don't think we have been very good at asset management.  I also believe we undervalue draft picks relative to almost every other organization in the NBA.  We trade a lot of draft picks to acquire talent then we pay even more to get rid of those players. We have churned over our roster far quicker than almost any other good team since 2011.  We always seem to be the team giving up picks rather than acquiring them.  I think that's a problem. 

The ironic thing is that the 3 best moves we've made since 2011 have been via the draft.  Luka, Brunson and Lively were all huge hits.  We acquired them with draft picks.  Josh Green and Hardy were really good picks as well.  We've been really good at drafting.  I don't understand why the Mavericks organization seems to hate draft picks so much.  So, we generally don't value the draft even though we're good at it.  Then, we overpay in draft compensation to acquire players then to get rid of them.  

The churn must go on.

The one thing I want to point out is that we acquired Luka by trading future picks. I think that trade and the KP trade get to your point about being flippant about trading draft picks because we were trading those picks without having accomplished anything. I actually think THE WAY we traded for Luka is a bigger issue than gets pointed out around here because there were rumors we could have moved up by eating Kent Bazemores contract instead of trading 2019. That got compounded by trading two future firsts for a dude with a torn ACL when Luka was 19 and we were a lottery team. Those decisions make me mad too but the moves were making now aren’t nearly as pick heavy (we basically used 5 first round picks to put Luka and KP together without having any proof of concept) and the team is a lot of proven out and has a little more of an identity.