2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[F Gump]

We are ships in the night, amigo. I was trying (poorly perhaps) to say even the great GSW hasn’t outperformed Mavs in the draft recently. I get your outside-the-top-10 focus, but I don’t understand leaving Brunson, Finney-Smith, Kleber out of the equation.

My point was that the Mavs need to have a PIPELINE of bargain-contract players, and if they bail on 26 "because we can't find players anyhow" (rather than take a confident swing at finding a,  bargain-contract player), then that's a terrible approach.

Brunson, DFS, and Maxi are yesterday's news in relation to what they need. I didn't ignore them in relation to being found, but all have moved on from being cheap bargain-contract players. Adopting the idea that 'We don't need to try anymore, we found some before, one was even a draft pick between 56 and 60!! And besides, who knows if we can find another' would be the way they worked historically, but it needs to change to one that is aggressively trying to (and able to) find and develop talent.