2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[BasketballJones41]

There were reasonable routes to sign Collins and Markkanen. Neither the Bulls or Hawks wanted to-resign these players, so if you pushed the envelope, you could have gotten them. We had the outright capspace to sign Markkanen away from the Bulls. We were one trade away from offering Collins the max, which we know the Hawks would very likely not have matched. Or worked out a S&T. Mavs simply preferred to retain THJ over these players.

If you are so fixated on the idea of only getting two way players, why are we re-signing Brunson anyway? He´s not a two-way player by your seemingly ridiculous standards.....and neither is Wood.

Of course the idea that White could be better than Brunson in three years is crazy to you, just like the idea that Brunson could be better than Lowry was crazy to you all 12 months ago or the idea that Brunson could be better than Oladipo three years ago. It´s called forward projection. Sometimes it works out sometimes it doesn´t. Facts are it took Brunson till age 25 to have a better NBA season than White, who is three years younger.

Also I bet a lot that if we lose Brunson, Cuban will do a face-saving trade and Irving is simply the best candidate for it. Wall and Westbrook don´t get you the positive press, he´ll be craving. So it´s either Lavine or Irving. Lavine is likely too expensive and the Nets are much more likely to accept a package around Dinwiddie + Kleber to get rid of that nutjob.

I’m still sour that we didn’t get Markkanen my damn self. I think there was a very clear and easy route to get it done. It wasn’t exactly a secret that Chicago intended to use him in the Lonzo ball trade. If I remember correctly they actually tried to move him for Lonzo at the deadline before last summer. But the reason they had to use other salaries is because Markkanen didn’t want to play in New Orleans. As we know he did want to play here. Had we been proactive right there we could’ve got him just for facilitating Lonzo to Chicago. At least I feel pretty confident we could have.