2021 FREE AGENCY: Markkanen wants out of CHI | DAL "definitely interested"

[Jmaciscool]

My grade will be low as well if no other moves are made.    I was pretty unfamiliar with both Bullock's and Brown's games.  After reading up on them, I can understand both moves.   Time will tell if they keep their level of play from last year(Bullock) or improve their level of play (Brown).    I understand wanting to get more length on the wing and good catch and shoot three point marksman.  That makes sense.

But that only makes sense to me if you also do the bigger stuff.   I have said from the beginning that I really like Hardaway and thinks he fits very well here.  My fear though if we resigned him, we would be trying to improve around the edges and this team needed more.   

I was hoping for one guy who could be our 3/4 best player on our team with hopefully some upside to his game.    I would also been ok if they rolled the dice with a few guys who could be a much more valued asset in two years.   At this point, I think it is a very difficult path to get either player.  For instance, Markkanen may not be the best fit, but I think he has upside.   Maybe he fits in perfectly here.  Maybe he doesn't but he shows growth in his game and you can move him like when Golden State made a move for D'Angelo Russell when the fit was clearly not great.    We will see if that works out for Golden State but they did wind up with a pretty good long term piece in the draft.   

I wonder if part of the Mavs strategy heading into FA is if they were expecting Miami to not pick up Goran's contract and when that happened they were left scrambling trying to find a bigger fitting part to improve the roster?  So hopefully the moves are not done yet, but my grade will not be high if we graded to this point.

My hunch is that Dragic was not a big focus of the Mavs' offseason plans and is more of a "let's see if we can take advantage of this opportunity" type move knowing that he would be a good fit, etc.  I'm hoping they weren't scrambling based on Dragic.

Totally agree that I'm hoping there are some other moves lined up (with or without Dragic) to finish out the roster.  I'm thinking there are, but I'm always a Mavs optimist.