07-23-2021, 02:25 PM
(07-23-2021, 02:12 PM)Scott41theMavs Wrote: I'm still pretty solidly in the "trade KP now" camp for two reasons:
1) we don't have a high enough talent quotient right now to survive another (and probably near-career-ending, and certainly career-tanking) major KP injury and have him become an outright untradeable $30M anchor. Let some other franchise with more flexibility take that risk.
2) if JC is our prime target, then you need to get a center who fits with him, which isn't KP. Holmes, another one of our major targets, doesn't fit either.
If JC stays in Atlanta or goes to the Spurs, then of course #2 is moot.
The Mavs main targets (basing this on Shams and Stein):
Kawhi
Collins
Holmes
*Lowry on 2 yr deal
Assuming this is true (and with Shams and Stein we can be confident it is), then the Mavs either:
1) Have trading KP as a priority.
OR
2) They are ready to put KP next to JC or RH.
I WANT it to be #1, but I think #2 is just as likely. JC is a "small" big and RH is a big with great feet on D. Point being, I think our tea leaf reading should start with what Shams and Stein have talked about.