06-04-2022, 10:10 PM
(06-04-2022, 09:16 PM)F Gump Wrote: I doubt Bagley presents any issues to DET. Does he even get a QO from them? I wouldn't offer one. And letting go of his Bird rights whenever room is needed (if that should happen) is not a big deal.
Your list makes sense, though not sure I'd be all that interested in some of them. We're looking for an upgrade and some seem to me to be warm bodies who are big, but perhaps not playable in big games. As much as I'm ready to move on from Powell, change just for the sake of change is even less appealing imo.
Mavs MLE should be close to 6.2M. I hope you are right in thinking it will be able to land someone desirable who can be a useful regular. I hope Cuban will be incredibly willing to spend that MLE, and the TPE too, assuming they find a player who can be a regular, rather than cry poverty (or feign inability to have a use for either). I have long been interested in Holmes using the TPE and think a Powell for Holmes deal is one that has promise (including ways to include others as needed on either side, ways to keep from being even more buried in tax by moving the TPE to the future in such a deal, so to speak, and more).
It would be pretty crazy to trade for a 23 year old former #2 pick and then let him walk for nothing, especially while you are rebuilding.
Young players tend to get better. I know, I know crazy old youth-loving Mavs2021, who also didn´t want to give grandpa Lowry 90M last summer and trade Brunson in the process. 12 months later, you´d be slapped senseless, if you proposed a Brunson for Lowry trade straight up.
12 months ago Jalen Smith was the biggest draft bust, dumped by the Suns. Now he´s a 21 year old averaging 13/8, while shooting 53/37/77. It´s likely there is further improvement to come.
Thomas Bryant produced very similar numbers before tearing his ACL. Played off his rust. Full summer to work out. Now is the moment to catch him. With Washington having Porzingis and Gafford, it´s highly unlikely he´ll stay there. Id be shocked, if somebody offered him more than the $6.2M.
I can see it with Hartenstein, cause Ballmer simply does not give a f*** and with Smith, cause he´s only 21 and the promise he has shown in Indiana could tempt a team like the Spurs to outbid everybody.