2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[DanSchwartzgan]

Is Holmes good enough that you would take him, in a money dump deal? If he's not playable, his contract is kinda gagly. But one man's trash might be another's treasure.

Say a deal in June with something like Holmes to Dallas, and Brown + 1 of Chriss/Bobi + cash?

In noodling around the edges of what this team has in assets and how best to move forward, I keep wondering of something like that is the smart move. It allows Maxi to play at PF for less wear and tear, keeps your 2 shooters, and keeps the pick for someone young to put in the pipeline at a reduced cost. The downside is MC pays a lot of tax, but that's the price of talent.

It also opens the door to having another piece for potential use in a Gobert deal, sometime later, if Gobert is possibly put on the market.

Would you do that?

I think there are four versions of Holmes to Dallas that make sense on some level:

Maxi based deal (Sac Pro:  He would fit well with Sabonis.  Dallas Con:  Bertans is our only real backup PF....draft one?)

Reggie based deal (Sac Pro:  They need defensive wings.  Dallas Con:  Is Green fully ready to take over the role?)

THJ based deal (Sac Pro:  A thinking man's version of Hield.  Dallas Con:  We have to take back an extra player to make the $ work)

TPE based deal (Sac Pro: They can get to a little over the MLE in cap room.  Dallas Con:  Is there one other than the LT cost to Cuban?)


FWIW in deal design, Sac. has a $4mm TPE.   Trying to be realistic, do we have to swap 23 for 37 on top of an end of bench guy or two?  To your point about Gobert, I think we'd be ripe for a consolidation trade of some kind.  The depth chart of rotation quality players would be a bit crowded:

Holmes/Powell
DFS/Maxi-Bertans
Luka/THJ
Reggie/Green
Brunson/Dinwiddie

It will be challenging to feed all of those mouths.