(11-30-2021, 09:25 AM)mvossman Wrote: What scenario do you see where this team relies on drafting to improve and holds onto Luka?
I don't. Even when Luka demands a trade, Cuban will look for players instead of draft assets. His hate of losing and impatience limits his ability to win. It's why the KP move was a bad idea because if the trade was a miss (and it certainly is leaning heavily towards that) it killed any flexibility to course correct.
(11-30-2021, 09:17 AM)mvossman Wrote: Brunson is in a completely different league than your rotational examples (Powell, WCS, Bullock). I agree all of those guys are overpaid, and you can make the argument that THJ is overpaid, but he is a better comparison to Brunson than those guys.
Caruso is an interesting comp. He is the opposite of Brunson in that he is a net negative on the court offensively but very good defensively. I would have been happy to pay him the MLE (made more sense than Bullock). I'm not sure that Caruso has a better overall game. Brunson is a better scorer, self creator, distributor and rebounder. The only thing Caruso is better at is defense. And the reality is this league pays for offense more than defense.
I wasn't comparing Brunson to Powell, WCS or Bullock, just stating that we overpaid each of them to varying degrees. And while Brunson is better than any of them, he's also no a starter in my estimation.