2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[mvossman]

I'm of the opinion that Timmy's defensive woes make him a non-fit for these Mavs (i.e. a Luka-Brunson-SD-DFS-RB-Maxi-our new center core), as well as taking the ball out of the hands of better offensive players. I get not dumping him to dump him, but on the other hand I firmly believe that playing him in the interests of raising his value for trades the first few months of next year will hurt team chemistry and defense, and likely cost us wins. I would have no problem whatsoever with using our first (it's a 26th pick, folks. How much confidence do you have in our current, untried BT to nail a pick in that range?) to de-clutter our payroll. If we get something helpful back in return, even better.

Timmy is a significantly better player than anyone not in our top 6.  I'm not worried at all about us being worse or losing wins because Timmy is on the team.  He has already lost his starting spot and I don't see that changing.  His offense would be particularly helpful in some cases and I am not worried at all about him taking the ball away from better offensive players (in the playoffs it was clear we needed more players that could do something other than shoot wide open threes).  I agree on long term fit that he is not ideal due to his lack of defense (along with our other 3 offensive players), but that does not mean we burn assets to get rid of his salary, especially when that salary is descending and will look more appealing to other teams as soon as TDL.

I also don't think its a good mentality to say we have not been great in the draft in the past so we should not value late first round picks.  If nothing else we could/should use that pick to get a legit starting center.