FA: Klay Thompson Comes to Dallas| 3yrs/50mil

[Smitty]

I found this pretty deflating, and a sort of matter-of-fact, unintentional indictment of Luka. I hope Legler is wrong about some of this, but I bet he's not.

I agree for the most part. I mean Luka is arguably the best player in the NBA, so I get where he’s coming from but I also remember the talk last offseason about how Kyrie wanted to play with more pace and that didn’t really fit Luka’s style and we debated it a bit here and in the end Luka and the Mavs ultimately did so. I think Kidd, Luka and Kyrie know ball better than most and I think they’ll figure out a way to play to Klay’s strengths when he’s on the floor when the matchups dictate it. I don’t think we’ll see a total overhaul of the offense like Timpf talks about. But he made a good point about Klay having 400+ shot attempts off of a screen, leading the league by a lot and Tim having ~100. So, the Mavs are capable of doing more than just high PnR or ISO stuff. Maybe they double it and get Klay 200 or so of those, using the same actions.

I was actually surprised to hear he liked Naji a bit more than DJJ, knowing how high he was on Jones post TDL and throughout the playoffs. Also, Adam was HIGH on the Grimes addition.