Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[KillerLeft]

You are comparing him to players that took high volume three point shots and made them at a good percentage.  He does neither.  He takes less threes than PJ (and at a worse percentage).  His three point shot profile does not look that difficult.  Most of his shots are open or wide open.  He does take shots off the dribble but at 29% I'm not sure that's a good thing.  

His teams are consistently better on defense when he is off the court.  There may be some context I am missing there, but it has been consistent throughout his career.  To me he seems like a classic case of a player with a lot of talent but doesn't translate to positive on court impact.  The history of those kind of players turning it around is not good.  

If he ends up on this roster (especially at that cost) May will have to do a better job than Rick in getting more out of him.  Seems like a tall order.

Hey, man...you're the guy who analyzes numbers. If I go to bat for a player it's almost always a player who has caught my eye when I've watched his team play, and most of the time I've liked the guy enough to find occasion to watch his team more than other non-Mavs squads. I'm not always right in those situations, obviously, but this is the same feeling I had about PJW before the '24 trade deadline when everyone told me I was a moron for wanting HIM in Dallas. 

I obviously respect your opinion a great deal. You always carefully analyze the information that's important to you and make careful, measured statements that you're prepared to back up. I find that we agree on this stuff more often than not, and each time that happens I become a little more emboldened and confident in my own opinions. I usually take it as a good sign. 

I could be WAY wrong about Mathurin. But, for now, I think what I think, and what I think is that he brings talent to the table in an area where almost none exists on the current Mavs' roster, that he's still young, and that most importantly he seems gettable in a summer when they have the flexibility to do some "getting." I see some of the negatives people bring up, sure, but in terms of fit I think he's potentially a huge positive, and I'd honestly raise my wins projection for THIS season more because they added him (if they did) than any other player they've added this summer.