STATE OF THE MAVS: 5/8 Point

[Reunion Mav Old]

This is where my thoughts keep leading me back to.

This is probably the worst year in NBA history to have a youth movement. They have had none of the regular preparation time, they have less practice time, they have had to play important minutes that they are not ready for etc. 

It is way, way to early to get down on the youth movement. Though I am really only hopeful so far about Smith and maybe Bey, none of them have had a legitimate chance to be rotation players at this point though the minutes they have been forced to play have let them know just how far they have to go because they have gotten their butts kicked. Maybe that speeds up their development and maybe that ruins them. Time will tell. 

My big thought: One way that makes sense to have a lot of young and therefore cheap players is to be able to afford a third or maybe fourth (if we sign THJ) very high dollar player. When the money goes to the top of the roster, it would be good to have a bunch of players who  are improving, know your system and still cheap to fill out your roster.

 We go about 10 deep with legitimate candidates for rotation player right now. Maybe next year or partially at the trade deadline, we move toward only 7 deep with experienced players but two more of them are stud starters. Then Smith and the youth group are moving up to candidates for 8-10 and maybe 3 of them succeed in doing that. Some of the current top 10-11 become assets we trade up with. That player or players could be anyone but Luka.