07-20-2026, 12:57 AM
To update:
Under contract:
1) Coop
2) Kai
3) Rez
4) Sergio
5) PJ
6) Naji
7) Gafford
8) Thompson
9) Martin
10) Christie
11) Risacher
12) Aldama
13) Sasser
14) Tarik
15) Lively
16) Cisse
Two-ways;
17) Tyler (so gone)
18) Lawal
19) Poulakidas
Limbo:
20) Seva
21) Powell
And again my "core" argument from an SL game thread from earlier, in the pecking order I believe the FO puts them:
Coop
Kai
Rez
Sergio
Risacher
Aldama
Sasser
Lively (koff, koff, hire a damned training and medical staff - he'd be 4th or 5th on this list if reliably healthy)
Max
Tarik
Cisse
Seva (perhaps developmental/2-way, but I'd rather see him make the main roster)
Lawal (developmental/2-way)
perhaps PJ - big minutes if he stays
perhaps Naji - big minutes if he stays
I know I'm greedy and Simply Failing to Buy the Vision, but I still desperately need an upgrade to Max in the starting lineup. I said a few days back that I have no idea what the plan is if they trade for another frontcourt player - bingo! They have a bunch of guys who can provide some degree of skill at the forward positions - many, really, who can drive and sorta create for themselves at a small forward level - but not enough guys with guard-level skills. If it were opening day, I'd say screw it and run Flagg at the 2 at this point as some have said. That's the only way all these mouths eat.
The Cisse thing makes a Gafford trade nearly necessary, and as KL said, would make the Mavs' center financial allotment make far more sense. Martin and Klay gotta go somehow, the former probably necessary as a package deal with either PJ or (far more likely) Naji. I would still love to see the Mavs convert PJ into either Scoot or Sharpe (if he can play D - no one answered my question earlier), or somehow get Cason Wallace. That would balance out the lineup - and get someone to get all of these forwards the ball - quite a bit.
Impressed with what M&M have done so far - especially the draft, even if it really puts a poop-ton of pressure on Rez to show out over the next 5-10 years to make us not be pissed they picked him over Burries - but in my Masai naivete, I still want balance, and since they have to clear at least one main roster slot before Game 1, and two slots if they think Seva is main roster worthy, I take heart in knowing that they don't have the choice to be done yet.
Under contract:
1) Coop
2) Kai
3) Rez
4) Sergio
5) PJ
6) Naji
7) Gafford
8) Thompson
9) Martin
10) Christie
11) Risacher
12) Aldama
13) Sasser
14) Tarik
15) Lively
16) Cisse
Two-ways;
17) Tyler (so gone)
18) Lawal
19) Poulakidas
Limbo:
20) Seva
21) Powell
And again my "core" argument from an SL game thread from earlier, in the pecking order I believe the FO puts them:
Coop
Kai
Rez
Sergio
Risacher
Aldama
Sasser
Lively (koff, koff, hire a damned training and medical staff - he'd be 4th or 5th on this list if reliably healthy)
Max
Tarik
Cisse
Seva (perhaps developmental/2-way, but I'd rather see him make the main roster)
Lawal (developmental/2-way)
perhaps PJ - big minutes if he stays
perhaps Naji - big minutes if he stays
I know I'm greedy and Simply Failing to Buy the Vision, but I still desperately need an upgrade to Max in the starting lineup. I said a few days back that I have no idea what the plan is if they trade for another frontcourt player - bingo! They have a bunch of guys who can provide some degree of skill at the forward positions - many, really, who can drive and sorta create for themselves at a small forward level - but not enough guys with guard-level skills. If it were opening day, I'd say screw it and run Flagg at the 2 at this point as some have said. That's the only way all these mouths eat.
The Cisse thing makes a Gafford trade nearly necessary, and as KL said, would make the Mavs' center financial allotment make far more sense. Martin and Klay gotta go somehow, the former probably necessary as a package deal with either PJ or (far more likely) Naji. I would still love to see the Mavs convert PJ into either Scoot or Sharpe (if he can play D - no one answered my question earlier), or somehow get Cason Wallace. That would balance out the lineup - and get someone to get all of these forwards the ball - quite a bit.
Impressed with what M&M have done so far - especially the draft, even if it really puts a poop-ton of pressure on Rez to show out over the next 5-10 years to make us not be pissed they picked him over Burries - but in my Masai naivete, I still want balance, and since they have to clear at least one main roster slot before Game 1, and two slots if they think Seva is main roster worthy, I take heart in knowing that they don't have the choice to be done yet.