2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[KillerLeft]

The trade was not based on anything positive the Mavs mgmt saw with those two as much as it was about their desperation to get rid of KP that they took the first deal where someone was offering them something. 

That's the way I see it, anyway. 

Now that it's over, I think it's fun to imagine/debate/argue about what the new guys will look like here, because...they're here. 

But, it seems like people are comparing them (mentally) to either the price that Dallas paid for Porzingis to begin with or the dream of what Porzingis could have been here. All I'm trying to say is that those ships sailed way back in '20, to my way of thinking. 

These new guys aren't going to come remotely close to either of those things, but the Mavs didn't have those things. They were never again going to have them. The new cap situation isn't nearly as good as it might be had they never traded for and extended Porzingis, but THEY DID. This is what it takes (I guess) to get a horrendous MAX contract off the books without attaching meaningful picks to it (you literally can't attach good contracts as sweeteners, otherwise you have to trade for half of someone's team!). 

Again, they have been on a collision course with this outcome since the dude got hurt again in the bubble (probably before that, but that's when it became clear to us). What possible value could there have been to put it off even more? Did we really want to watch THIS roster until his contract expired? Would it have been worth trading Brunson or DFS for a 1st, just so 1-2 1sts could've been packaged with Porzingis to turn him into air? They wouldn't have cap room with Luka's extension kicking in, and they'd be without whatever assets it took to do that, right? To me, that's far, far worse than where they are today. 

I think we should all be pissed they couldn't get something like this done LAST YEAR, tbh. But better late than never.