ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

[sterlingmallory]

I'm not the biggest fan of KP trade mostly because of Bertan's albatross contract and it felt a little like we kicked that contract problem further down the road, but that is largely MBT2.0 paying for the sins of MBT1.0.  Ditto for Jalen Brunson walking.  

MBT 2.0 could have signed Brunson to an extension during the season. I don't let them off the hook for the Brunson fiasco, even if the roots of it did start under the old regime with the stupid rookie contract they gave him that allowed him to be a UFA in the first place. Still, they could have nullified that error if they had just extended Brunson during the season when they reportedly had a chance. 

Then they doubled down on that mistake and didn't even get close to the offer NY made to him. Then they tripled down on it and decided Dragic is washed up and that they'd rather roll into the season with no 3rd playmaker (unless they sign Schroder, but honestly, I would have preferred Dragic).

This offseason really killed all the hype I had for the new front office after the KP trade.