12-29-2020, 12:44 PM
(12-29-2020, 11:53 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: Bump for Dan's thought. Hey, this is a good start for seeing what you want to see I think. The question was asked "What do you think the Mavs will do", not what do you think the Mavs should do. So a bit different than what you're asking.
Thanks for that. More Green love there than I remember. One or two people were kind of anti-Green and he didn't get as much attention as he probably deserved in pre-draft conversations (actual conversations, not lists). It is a bit different than what I asked, but I was mainly being snarky. It felt to me like more people were claiming to have pushed for Precious than I remembered. BTW, I differentiate between pushing for someone and having him high on a list of several players, but it isn't like there is some contest where I'm making up rules. I mainly wanted to have a reference for a year from now when half the board says they "knew" he was going to be great (I didn't see the fit if anyone cares).
I give Omahen all the credit on leading discussions regarding Richardson. He mainly wanted to do a bigger deal that also brought back a bigger contract like Horford in the first iteration of the deals he proposed (very early in the pre-season). I think Omahen's focus on Richardson led to other discussions where people proposed a variety of simpler deals. I suspect a lot of us responded positively to some variations (I would have given 31 with Curry, so I'm ecstatic that it worked the way it did).