04-18-2026, 03:35 AM
What is interesting to me is seeing who people think we might be able to trade off and if possible use that trade to free up roster spots and acquire additional draft picks.
Gafford and PJ have been mentioned and I have seen Naji mentioned as well. B Will shot very poorly from the 3 this year but was still the 4th best in scoring for the team at 13 PPG. Naji was the 2nd best scorer behind Cooper and he had 6 games with 30 or more points while PJ was third.
Obviously Kyrie is going to bring more scoring when he returns and our top first rounder should also provide a lot of offense. If our first pick is a PG then I am sure that player will also play with Kyrie in the starting lineup so we will need to keep Ryan on as a PG and pray he develops his game more. That gives us 3 guys we can play at the point.
My question is does B Will look like he is worth bringing back since he is so horrible at the 3?
Cooper has played games at a variety of positions so he is flexible enough that he can play many positions. Bagley is often used as a 5 but his shooting makes him someone that can stretch the court and he is able to play PF as well so if we wanted to put Bagley out there next to Lively then Cooper and we had Kyrie and our rookie PG at SG would that be a be a lineup we could see a lot in games? If so could we count on it being a top used lineup?
I ask because that should impact how the mavs work to build and fill in around everyone else.
I know we want to use Cooper as a PF in a position less game but as we used that lineup I think we might view Cooper and Bagley as being just forwards in that lineup with neither being a Power or small forward.
I do think Lively would benefit from Bagley being able to supply another big body out there to help out against other teams centers like AD used to do.
Considering then that Gafford could be traded should we also keep Moussa on the roster and draft another 5 with one of the 3 remaining picks?
That would give us a center lineup of Lively Moussa and a rookie plus a forward that could fill in at the 5 in Bagley.
This would leave us with 3 centers and a forward that could also play at the 5. Now if (KNOCK ON WOOD) Lively is unable to play in some games we would still have enough guys that could play the 3 to do the job.
Should we use pick 30 or our 2nd rounder to add a center?
John and Tyler are both signed on 2 ways and a 3rd 2 way could be used for another 5 to further fortify that position.
I look at mocks and see a few centers available that could contribute being undrafted. Both of the Ivisic brothers are shown going undrafted on a lot of mock drafts and they played with Peja's son Andrej Stojakovic and Wagler in Illinois as a duo at the 5 so hopefully Andrej remembers the days when his dad played here and that could help to open some doors to talks.
Next years we have 11 contracted players on the 15 man roster. The # is how many millions they are being paid
Kyrie 39,
Klay 17,
Gafford 17,
PJ 19,
Cooper 14,
Caleb 10,
Naji 9,
Max 8,
Lively 7,
AJ 3
Ryan 2,
Two Ways: John and Tyler already on contracts under a million
Free Agents: Middleton, Powell, Bagley, B Will, Cisse
If we are able to trade off Gafford and PJ that leaves us with 9 contracted players on the roster and certainly that kind of trade would bring back contracted players so when we add on the contracts of 3 rookies and we resign a few veterans like say we sign Bagley and Cisse, now there is 16 contracts would a guy like AJ or Martin be tradeable. Maybe we trade PJ and Gafford to one team who sends us back one player but that sounds unlikely. I assume the mavericks are also considering that keeping PJ and Gafford is an option but if we did look to trade them who has shown any interest?
Gafford and PJ have been mentioned and I have seen Naji mentioned as well. B Will shot very poorly from the 3 this year but was still the 4th best in scoring for the team at 13 PPG. Naji was the 2nd best scorer behind Cooper and he had 6 games with 30 or more points while PJ was third.
Obviously Kyrie is going to bring more scoring when he returns and our top first rounder should also provide a lot of offense. If our first pick is a PG then I am sure that player will also play with Kyrie in the starting lineup so we will need to keep Ryan on as a PG and pray he develops his game more. That gives us 3 guys we can play at the point.
My question is does B Will look like he is worth bringing back since he is so horrible at the 3?
Cooper has played games at a variety of positions so he is flexible enough that he can play many positions. Bagley is often used as a 5 but his shooting makes him someone that can stretch the court and he is able to play PF as well so if we wanted to put Bagley out there next to Lively then Cooper and we had Kyrie and our rookie PG at SG would that be a be a lineup we could see a lot in games? If so could we count on it being a top used lineup?
I ask because that should impact how the mavs work to build and fill in around everyone else.
I know we want to use Cooper as a PF in a position less game but as we used that lineup I think we might view Cooper and Bagley as being just forwards in that lineup with neither being a Power or small forward.
I do think Lively would benefit from Bagley being able to supply another big body out there to help out against other teams centers like AD used to do.
Considering then that Gafford could be traded should we also keep Moussa on the roster and draft another 5 with one of the 3 remaining picks?
That would give us a center lineup of Lively Moussa and a rookie plus a forward that could fill in at the 5 in Bagley.
This would leave us with 3 centers and a forward that could also play at the 5. Now if (KNOCK ON WOOD) Lively is unable to play in some games we would still have enough guys that could play the 3 to do the job.
Should we use pick 30 or our 2nd rounder to add a center?
John and Tyler are both signed on 2 ways and a 3rd 2 way could be used for another 5 to further fortify that position.
I look at mocks and see a few centers available that could contribute being undrafted. Both of the Ivisic brothers are shown going undrafted on a lot of mock drafts and they played with Peja's son Andrej Stojakovic and Wagler in Illinois as a duo at the 5 so hopefully Andrej remembers the days when his dad played here and that could help to open some doors to talks.
Next years we have 11 contracted players on the 15 man roster. The # is how many millions they are being paid
Kyrie 39,
Klay 17,
Gafford 17,
PJ 19,
Cooper 14,
Caleb 10,
Naji 9,
Max 8,
Lively 7,
AJ 3
Ryan 2,
Two Ways: John and Tyler already on contracts under a million
Free Agents: Middleton, Powell, Bagley, B Will, Cisse
If we are able to trade off Gafford and PJ that leaves us with 9 contracted players on the roster and certainly that kind of trade would bring back contracted players so when we add on the contracts of 3 rookies and we resign a few veterans like say we sign Bagley and Cisse, now there is 16 contracts would a guy like AJ or Martin be tradeable. Maybe we trade PJ and Gafford to one team who sends us back one player but that sounds unlikely. I assume the mavericks are also considering that keeping PJ and Gafford is an option but if we did look to trade them who has shown any interest?