02-16-2022, 12:46 AM
(02-15-2022, 07:19 PM)F Gump Wrote: TWO NOTES --
1 Re the need for a center, one thing that I haven't seen mentioned (I could have missed it) is that a significant issue with KP is that he's always going to be a $35M center - and in today's era, you shouldn't pat thay much for a center unless he's a pure superstar. Jokic. Embiid.
Good ones are available every year for $15Mish more or less, for example Holmes last summer. They are easy to find. Minimum salary, often.
The Mavs need to get their spending reasonable on that position, in relation to what guys like that go for. Even without KP, they are still paying quite a bit.
2 Looking forward, my from-nowhere working assumption is that around the draft, the Mavs will try to package one of THJ, SD, or DB with their pick, for someone they like better. Ideally, they would find a way between now and then to change perceptions of all 3 of those.
High on my wish list would be a THJ-for-Brogdon swap. But depending on what we see of the 3 between now and then, the preferences of who to send, and the wish list, might change a lot.
Agree with the first part. I don't think THJ and our 22 first will be enough to get Brogdon, and I doubt Indy is interested in THJ unless they move Hield.