02-15-2022, 05:52 PM
(02-15-2022, 05:38 PM)Arioch Wrote: This is what I don't understand. I understand not liking the deal. I understand thinking no deal would have been better than the deal that was made. I don't understand asserting there was a better deal to be made. How are the "Wizards more desperate than us"? By the time they made the deal, Beal had had season-ending surgery and they were sitting at 24-29 with a best case scenario of scraping into the 10th seed and getting bounced in the first play-in game. The remainder of the season is a clear write-off for them. If they didn't like the deal, they could just wait for the summer and hope to find a better deal then--or even come back to take the deal then since they knew no one else was looking to take Porzingis off our hands.
Dallas, on the other hand, will be a playoff team, and while I doubt anyone in the front office thinks they are an actual contender, I think they think they could win a series or two (worth millions to the franchise if so). If they didn't move KP now, they would *have to* play him which a) they don't seem to have wanted to do, and b) risk that final injury that tanked his value completely which they were apparently worried about.
If anything, what may have made the deal possible (given no other team seems to have been interested in gambling on KP) was the fact that the Wizards were *not* desparate and felt comfortable making Dallas a take it or leave it offer.
I can turn around everything you say.
The Mavs are not losing Luka anytime soon. They were still a top 4 seed this with KP and Luka not even playing many games together. The Wiz OTOH have their star hurt, rumors that he might ask for a move out. Analysts were and are still saying they are not sure what that Wiz organization is doing.
A fragile talent but still a talent in KP just might cause Beal to stay longer. Maybe KP like Nash suddenly gets injury free. Both are stretches but at least they have something to look forward to now. Plus they got rid of two contracts that while on paper might be easier to move than KP’s are terrible contracts currently.
That’s why yes the Wiz were in a more desperate position than us and we absolutely should have asked for a FRP or waited till the summer. The only x factor there is that none of us know if the Luka KP relationship was so fractured that the Mavs felt the need to make the move now and not even wait for a few more months.