2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[omahen]

After all that, saying "The problem was" and then referring to the Curry for JRich trade as being THE problem with last year's team seems too far off the mark to me. Sure, Having Curry on that team last year MIGHT have been an improvement. I really doubt the improvement in him personally would have been the same as we saw in PHI though. He just wasn't utilized well enough here, and his confidence in shooting the ball skyrocketed in PHI. Here he was a timid shooter that would only put the ball up on WIDE, WIDE, WIDE open shots, and hardly was a crunch time savior because of that too.

Totally agree with the first part. I think Mavs wouldn't be any better with Curry than they were with JRich. Was there a better trade available? We don't know. 

Curry works great in Philly because he is surrounded by 4 great defenders. With Mavs there is no way he could start next to Luka defending the point of attack. Same as THJ can't. Or Brunson. So we would have 3 guys that are best suited for bench scoring punch within how Mavs team is constructed. I think he would be sort of redundant.

However, since we saw that losing Curry shooting did hurt us, I am more careful about throwing away THJ shooting. He is elite. I too can't really see him as a starter, but would any middle of the pack FA really bring such improvement that loss of THJ shooting would be forgotten? The big question is his salary. But since Lowry and THJ is supposed to be the goal, I can't really see how we could bring in Lowry at 30 and THJ at 20. Mavs are either bluffing or their salaries will be much lower or they will not keep KP.