MAVS NEWS:

[cow]

And, Davis IS really, really great when he plays. 

I wish this was true, but it isn't.  He is all-time great when he is great, but that's not every game and we've already witnessed duds with AD wearing a Mavericks uniform.  Tack on how often he is injured and it just makes it really hard to rely on him.  

I'm not really being pessimistic here.  I think the Mavs will try to compete this year and they could end up in the play-in again or a bottom seed.  I don't see them being a contender, I just think that's asking too much of Kyrie who will miss  time and then be coming off of a major injury.  We then need to incorporate a rookie into the rotation who should average a ton of minutes so growing pains.  With the current construction, the time to compete would be the season after next.  I hope that doesn't happen either to be honest, but that has more to do with the likelihood of Nico being around and depreciating AD's value further.  No matter what you think of the Luka trade, doing that means that Nico is in a win now mode with a team that really isn't ready.  But given the trades Nico pulled off, he could do even more damage to the post-Kyrie/AD Mavericks and that's what terrifies me most.

So yes, PG is a need.  I just don't love anyone who might be available to invest assets into acquiring them.  I'd  rather cheap out for the next year or two and offer a 40-year old CP3 or Westbrook a 1+1 than any of the other trade options floating around.  If PJ, Lively , Gafford, or, to a lesser extent, Klay is going out, I want draft capital coming back along with whatever is needed from a salary matching perspective.