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

[Jason Terry]

Maybe a reduced workload could help….especially in the first half of the season.  May be why Dallas could be exploring guards.  Either in case of emergency or them questioning if they have someone on their roster who can help us win if Luka is at 32 minutes and Kyrie 30 minutes on a random middle of the week game early in the season.

To me the workload is the #1 problem for this franchise after the playoff run. 

Luka did not look right at any point in the playoffs. We could achieve far greater offensive and defensive improvement in the playoffs by fixing this problem. 

One part to this is lowering his minutes (and Kyrie). It’s similar to the problem Denver has with Jokic. Can we just break even in the non-Luka minutes? Being able to lower Luka’s minutes to 34-35ish instead of top 5 in the league would make a big difference 

Our problem becomes even bigger next year if we make the right changes around the edge with our offensive system. Last season we added the fast pace fast break element and had great success. If we continue with that but add more ball movement and player movement, then it makes it even harder for Luka to play the absurd level of minutes. 

Effort on defense is related to this as well. In the PLAYOFFS WE HAD A PLAYER WHO WOULD LITERALLY TAKE WHOLE HALVES OFF FROM PLAYING DEFENSE. We constantly hear the line about “funnel everyone to the bigs, it’s a strategy”. To me this is just a media talking point the organization uses to explain away why Luka forces us to have our entire defense revolve around his inability to perform in his minutes. It’s a lie that he can’t do it as we saw him turn it on for stretches in the playoffs. He doesn’t have the stamina/health

The fix would need to be someone who can dribble and create offense for themselves and others………The player could be a legit guard who does the same thing Luka/Kai do and we have a 3 man rotation of 34/34/28 mpg………………..or my favorite way would be to get a wing who can do these things so there’s less of a minutes problem and we have a well rounded team. It’s why Avdija made so much sense. If we got a 3 level scoring two way wing like that it would solve most of our problems.