2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[cow]

I will offer one positive to the path the Mavs have been down.

While we now wonder why the Mavs didn't trade JB earlier, what was his trade value at the TDL? NY was already making noise, and it was a UFA you would be getting.

In any event, I don't think I would go back and do a realistic trade (whatever that might have netted) to move JB at the deadline ...because without JB, this team would have been one-and-done in the playoffs again. That just couldn't happen ....yet without JB, it would have. He kept the team afloat until Luka could return.

Why couldn't it happen though?  Sometimes you need to take a step backwards. A worse team without JB post-TDL would have improved our draft position and netted us an asset.  

It's all spilled milk at this point though.