(05-30-2025, 06:11 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: 1 You see the irony in calling two draft picks useless salary and crappy, but then praising a draft pick as an excellent asset for OKC two lines later, right?
2 You also talk a lot of sh*t about Nico for somebody that
3 tries to bury the Mavs with more old and injured people like Lonzo and CP3. All that will do for the Mavs is add more useless and crappy salary from a high lottery pick in 2025 or is it an excellent asset. I´m so confused.
1 Yes its possible that the later pick will be just as crappy. But that doesn't solve the problem of the lack of value in what you're getting now, and the fact that you'd be clogging your roster with bad salary at a time when you can least afford it.
2 I do see Nico as inferior as a GM to others. The problem with the choices we are now discussing is that NICO's lack of GM skills is what put the Mavs in that position of being without good PG and creators, and left the cupboard bare of spending room and roster space.
3 Players who can be a really good solution for the PG issue aren't available. But gotta find SOMETHING to help, at least for the time being until Kyrie can return, and preferably can also contribute alongside Kyrie after that. But a player who can do a decent job for just a year would make some sense, depending on the price in assets of course. Lonzo? I'm in favor of Lonzo as a trade to mostly open up a way to get a better answer (than him) at PG, and I do recognize he's too risky health-wise to see as the dependable answer at PG although he might help. If you have been reading with comprehension, you already know that.
As for CP3, he's an idea. Yes he's aged. But he's still playing ok and healthy afaik (he played all 82 last season, and over 2200 minutes, and no one on the Mavs did that). A star anymore? Of course not. He's only a temporary answer, to help fill the short term crisis, but might be available for a TxpMLE which is what the Mavs could spend with some cap tweaks. I'm very open to better answers than CP3 but not to pay a lot for junk answers whose ability to help runs out when Kyrie returns, and who isn't any better than CP3. I am open to better answers but Clayton is NOT one at all.