04-14-2026, 08:00 AM
(04-13-2026, 10:11 PM)F Gump Wrote: I'm not really expecting the Mavs to get 3 quality players from this draft. They MUST get one, and with a top 10 pick they MUST nail the right guy, and find a top tier starter.
But whether they even get a 2nd useful player is something I think is quite iffy. We always get excited about guys after the lottery, and wish for this one rather than that one, but they never seem to end being of any value. Anderson, Larkin, Hardy, Green, Omax, the list is long and ugly.
The problem is they barely ever tried. There is Bernard James, Satnam Singh, the Giannis brother, and they allegedly took Larkin, cause Dirk liked him*. They took Tyrell Terry, cause Bill Simmons and KOCrap hyped him up as the next Trae Young, without apparently ever speaking to a kid with anxiety issues. Another 1st round pick they traded for a suicidal guy with a substance abuse problem.
I don´t even think in many cases it was that difficult to find more suitable options just using common sense. 90% of the board wanted Saddiq Bey in the Josh Green spot. 100% wanted to trade up for Bane in the Terry spot. A large number wanted Maxey, too.
I think the ratio between effort to picks to results is actually pretty good, considering that Cuban hated the draft.
*To be fair to Dirk there is a small chance Shane Larkin will make the HOF one day for his international career.
