01-04-2021, 07:15 PM
(01-04-2021, 06:54 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: I actually don't even necessarily argue that another team would value him more than the Mavs do. I just don't deny the possibility. I tend to think Bobi is still worth more here as a player/locker room guy than as a trade asset, unless he was needed as filler for part of some bigger deal. For the folks who are itching to see all the role players traded, I don't see them aggressively shopping him, but he's certainly not untouchable.
Why not feel out his prior coaches as I said? Stan Van Gundy is on record as considering it the biggest mistake of his coaching career that he didn't use Boban more than he did. That was despite the fact that he had Drummond in front of him.
Doc Rivers commented extensively on how he found he could use Boban effectively as long he understood that he had just as much chance to badly outplay his 'stretch 5' counterpart on a given night as it was to go the other way. He would play him and see who was getting the advantage on a given rotation.
Popovich used him effectively behind Tim Duncan so much that he set him up to get a big contract to move to Detroit.