12-22-2024, 01:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-22-2024, 01:57 PM by KillerLeft.)
(12-22-2024, 01:37 PM)Smitty Wrote: Avdija is and has been one of my favorites for a while so he’d be my personal top preference. And it’s not an either/or with Naji. I want both!
Sure, but both are on-ball forwards, and it sure seems like they want Thompson on ball quite a bit more than I expected. I think part of this new offensive direction is to expect EVERYONE to have on-ball agency within the flow of the offense, so I can see it, but I still wonder whether there's enough meat on the bone to justify an Avdija acquisition. He's a good defender, but so are Marshall and Thompson...I think he might be the worst of the three in terms of making himself an off-ball threat.
In terms of who Harrison targets, I think you're underselling part of the equation. I think we have reasonably complete info about many recent Mavs targets, yes, but I also think the natural conclusion is that he liked those players from among the list of who was available at those times. I'm not sure I agree he's pining for the same 11 guys nonstop, regardless of circumstances. Maybe some of them are still available, or available again, but there might be new guys available now who he likes better, and he might have decided he likes some of the guys who are here now more than he used to like those others.