05-29-2022, 10:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-29-2022, 10:02 AM by DanSchwartzgan.)
I’d recommend the Saturday version of The NBA Podcast. They did their post-mortem/look ahead on Dallas. Mort Jensen is a pretty good NBA mind. They deal with all of the usual suspects.
Biggest issue for Dallas is lack of two-way ability. Role players are being asked to do too much, but would be fine if there was one more two-way talent to push the roles of these guys down a notch. Positive mention of DFS. Positive mention of Brunson, but the money may get to be too much (then what do you do if you are Dallas). These are the guys who have said Luka may be good enough to be equivalent to a Batman and Robin. Maybe you could build around him with role players (the right role players). But, would be better to get a two-way talent. They think Bertans may stick at least to the TDL. Dallas may be able to find creative ways to get good things out of him. Best to keep THJ to the TDL to get more value than he has currently.
LaVine isn’t a two-way, but he is SO good offensively. May be the most efficient SG in the entire league next to Luka. Extremely difficult to pull off.
Really shouldn’t have traded Barnes
As to the bigs and the need to upgrade center:
Gobert…No. Would prefer younger/cheaper and more versatile.
Turner…They already tried this archetype. His name was KP
Holmes…Depends on what Kings to at #4 in terms of what they want from Dallas.
Wood…Jensen likes him for Dallas.
Collins…He’s the guy. This is the guy that best fits Luka, but what value to Atlanta? They won’t take back THJ and probably want Maxi-plus in any deal.
Tobias…I mean, if you can’t do Holmes/Woods/Collins, They’d do some kind of THJ/Bertans for Tobias deal.
Would not go for Nic Clayton (predictable offensively). Guys like that limit Luka. Need someone who can Pop or Roll and can put the ball on the floor at least a little (attack off the catch). That last point is why they like Wood and Collins and to a lesser extent Holmes (and don’t like some of the other bigs that get discussed here a lot.
Biggest issue for Dallas is lack of two-way ability. Role players are being asked to do too much, but would be fine if there was one more two-way talent to push the roles of these guys down a notch. Positive mention of DFS. Positive mention of Brunson, but the money may get to be too much (then what do you do if you are Dallas). These are the guys who have said Luka may be good enough to be equivalent to a Batman and Robin. Maybe you could build around him with role players (the right role players). But, would be better to get a two-way talent. They think Bertans may stick at least to the TDL. Dallas may be able to find creative ways to get good things out of him. Best to keep THJ to the TDL to get more value than he has currently.
LaVine isn’t a two-way, but he is SO good offensively. May be the most efficient SG in the entire league next to Luka. Extremely difficult to pull off.
Really shouldn’t have traded Barnes
As to the bigs and the need to upgrade center:
Gobert…No. Would prefer younger/cheaper and more versatile.
Turner…They already tried this archetype. His name was KP
Holmes…Depends on what Kings to at #4 in terms of what they want from Dallas.
Wood…Jensen likes him for Dallas.
Collins…He’s the guy. This is the guy that best fits Luka, but what value to Atlanta? They won’t take back THJ and probably want Maxi-plus in any deal.
Tobias…I mean, if you can’t do Holmes/Woods/Collins, They’d do some kind of THJ/Bertans for Tobias deal.
Would not go for Nic Clayton (predictable offensively). Guys like that limit Luka. Need someone who can Pop or Roll and can put the ball on the floor at least a little (attack off the catch). That last point is why they like Wood and Collins and to a lesser extent Holmes (and don’t like some of the other bigs that get discussed here a lot.
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