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

[ItsGoTime]

The issue isn’t the 15th player as a 3rd PG should probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of our 10th-12th man.

The issue I’ve read from the vocal ones about it is that the “3rd PG” isn’t gonna be close to the 2nd best player on the team. Some have come down a bit from that accepting SD as the 2nd PG on the floor, but most of those want that 3rd PG to be the 6-8th player (well, basically a starter coming off the bench). 

This is all due to the offense being “unlocked” when we brought SD in. The offense wasn’t unlocked by getting a player off the team that disrupted what the team wanted to do and the demand he put on doing things his way. It wasn’t about the huge collective sigh of relief coming from all players involved, including from the inbound players who had a mess of their own they had to deal with on their previous team. 

The further time goes on and FO thoughts are revealed the more credence to the forethought that they might not be able to retain JB after all and needed a good ball handler to replace him. All that Cuban bravado about us being able to easily sign JB couldn’t have been Cuban doing JB a solid by making NYK offer him the highest possible salary they could acquire. There’s no evidence whatsoever that would point us to him helping a player under his wing at the time, with the added bonus of sticking it to the NYKs. 

I just think the accepted truth by some around here isn’t necessarily the actual truth. Time will tell us more about the truth than anything. It will certainly tell us more of the truth about how THIS year’s assembled team will play, much moreso than the thoughts we type out right now in the moment without a single bit of gameplay viewed.