(05-30-2022, 03:48 PM)F Gump Wrote: While this is certainly a valid cause for concern - and I agree it has to be a serious consideration in regards to whether the Mavs will get anything helpful from the pick if they use it - there is also the issue that the Mavs can't keep using the excuse that 'We don't draft well, so we should get rid of our picks.'
They simply MUST learn to draft well and develop the picks they draft. Part of that is actually drafting players. . . .
I really don’t understand this thinking either. The Mavs mortgaged the future just a few years ago to trade up to draft Luka—the best draft-evaluation-based decision in the whole league over the past decade if you ask me. And then they stole Jalen in the second round.
Since then, they’ve had one kind of not worthless pick. They used it to get one of what, 4 NBA contributors left in the 2020 draft in Josh Green? Sure, 3 guys picked after him look better today. But several more picked ahead of him look way worse. Very hard for me to expect the Mavs could or should have done better. I mean, Golden State had 3 picks that draft, including the #2 overall. And none of them contributed a minute to their playoff run. So I guess we out drafted them? Might as well blame them for performing so poorly in the lottery.