02-11-2022, 12:45 PM
(02-11-2022, 12:18 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: So now he is gone....now what? The Mavs are still asset poor.....and now desperate.
They were asset poor before the trade. They still are.
KP was not an asset, clearly. I doubt he will ever be one again, and any chance he has to be one depends on this entire organization catering to him in all sorts of ways that seem counterproductive to the team trying to succeed on the court (to the extent they're currently able).
How desperate they are is a matter we can debate, but I don't think there's any argument to be made that they became more desperate as a result of this trade. If anything, moving forward from here got easier, so you could make the argument that this was them finally realizing how quickly they need to get started fixing everything.
There was a mirage of belief that Luka/KP were just magically going to figure out how to be the sum of two star players, and now it's gone. That's it, from my pov.
If the Luka/KP pairing was something that ever could have been successful, then the Mavs really messed up yesterday. Personally, I think there was a 0% chance of that.