2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[ItsGoTime]

Something that came up on the big Mav's Moneyball 2+hour podcast-palouzza was the idea of when to pull off "THE" trade.  Many here think that can't happen until after the 2023 draft.  So, that line of thinking is Wood is a low risk swing that may or may not work.  If it does, great, but the real show is a year away.  IF it doesn't work, Dallas is still an upper level playoff team (even if they don't go as far as 2022), but the real show is a year away.

My question is whether the team needs to be "patient" for a year or make an effort to go for "THE" trade right now.  Grant's two way game seems like it'd be a very nice fit.  We don't need a dominant scorer like a Beal or LaVine next to Luka.  We need someone who CAN score, but also defends.  I have no idea if the deal requires one or two picks, but I'd lean toward the bird in hand now.

On a different topic, with the Dragic mention, I'll bring up a bit of unpleasantness.  On Wednesday night I wrote that this deal is still open and can be added to without aggregation concerns.  Our outgoing salary match is still the four players, not Wood.  By now, everyone knows the earliest the deal can be done is after the first round on 6/23.  But, it doesn't HAVE to be completed that night.  It doesn't HAVE to be completed by the end of this NBA season.  It could be held over until after 7/1.  

For those who are dead sure Brunson is returning, you want to hear that announcement on 6/23.  My fear, if they hold it over, is they don't know what Brunson will do and $12mm of outgoing in July would make it MUCH easier to facilitate a S&T.  Suddenly Brunson to NY at $25mm is his $12.5mm BYC outgoing number plus $12mm for the four Amigos times 125% minus the $14.3mm incoming for Wood or $16.4mm.  NY can send out at little as $19.9mm to facilitate Brunson at $25mm.  Those numbers don't cross, but NY has all sorts of ways to move $3.5mm to a third team.  I don't think we are out of the "Woods" yet on Brunson.  In fact, if Grant is in play and Dallas wants to make another big splash, some of the Brunson return could go to Detroit (which suddenly makes sense of the Dragic rumor).

I love this line of thinking! Outside the box!