2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[loki]

Think these are fair criticisms. I just have a hard time believing that Nico and Kidd will want to start the season with Hardaway AND Dinwiddie - we know who showed that they fit in the system (and also who didn’t). Has Muscala ever played in a playoff game? I don’t love Olynyk, but I think he can do a little more offensively than Kleber and just a little less defensively.

Think with the exception, it’s going to be tough to find a player without major question marks. You grab LaRavia in the draft as short term insurance behind Porter and the long term answer.

Cutting Frank is more about his contract being non-guaranteed. You can think of Cory Joseph as the actual replacement and Theo as the replacement for Sterling Brown.

Just throwing a scenario out there that I think is realistic.

Offensively I think Dinwiddie and THJ could play well off of each other. Defense may be another story, but I do expect the Mavs to give it a shot. If nothing else they may be able to restore some of THJ's trade value before dealing him.

Most of Muscala's playoff minutes were either garbage time or brief cameos earlier in his career. Olynyk certainly has a better track record if you're looking for a big minute player, so I guess that does make more sense if he needs to start. I don't know that much about Cory Joseph. He did shoot the ball pretty well last year so he might be a decent offensive upgrade. Surely not going to be as disruptive as Frank on the other end though.

So overall not the way I would approach it...but I'll agree it's more realistic than a lot of the proposals I've seen.