05-29-2022, 10:44 AM
(05-29-2022, 10:00 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: 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.
Eh, I’d prefer more defense from the position he would play. Our G rotation is lacking in D.
Really shouldn’t have traded Barnes
Yep, said exactly this yesterday. He would be so good on this team right now.
As to the bigs and the need to upgrade center:
Gobert…No. Would prefer younger/cheaper and more versatile.
I’m good with this
Turner…They already tried this archetype. His name was KP
This to me is an odd take. The archetype they tried in KP is as a star. Turner isn’t close to that (neither, really, was KP, but we know that’s what he thought of himself which is a HUGE difference between Turner and him). I mean, I think Maxi is closer to Turner’s archetype than KP.
Holmes…Depends on what Kings to at #4 in terms of what they want from Dallas.
I was totally in on him, then i wavered seeing he was the same size as Powell, now, I’m fine with him if we pick him up.
Wood…Jensen likes him for Dallas.
Great pickup as a big wing/C. Not great if exclusively C.
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.
Same as Wood, in a better way.
Tobias…I mean, if you can’t do Holmes/Woods/Collins, They’d do some kind of THJ/Bertans for Tobias deal.
If Morey accepts that trade and none of the better options are actually better (Wood requires 2 future firsts not this years, Collins requires 2 high end contributors on top of picks) I would like this option.
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.