TRADE: Dinwiddie + Bertans to DAL | KP + 2nd to WAS

[cow]

Look at my posts for the last couple of months. I have been very consistent in wanting KP gone mainly because he misses so many games. I was not even looking at the on court fit with Luka. 

So it is not that I am upset in any way about KP being gone. I am upset that whenever there is a trade the Mavs are the ones always capitulating.  We should absolutely have asked for a FRP and stood firm. I don’t care how well Bertans or Dimwiddie might fit here or play here. Great if they do, but at this point we should have got a pick. Not only did we not do that but we gave up a 2nd round pick. 

I am the same guy who said when everyone was giddy at the KP trade that I would have held off on 2 FRP for him.  At that point folks here or the previous board were trying to say why those picks didn’t matter. 

Picks and assets matter. They always do.  If Washington was not budging.  Fine. Move on and punt this to summer to see if a better deal could be made. There is nothing so enticing here with what we got back that this deal had to be done right now.

Dating myself a bit but our stance on KP reminds me of one of Bill Hicks sketches.

• Bill Hicks : [about the Gulf War]  It was a very stressful time for me, the war. I'll tell you why - I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops. And ah... Not the most popular stance I've ever taken on an issue.

We have seemingly put yourself in a worse long-term position and spent an asset to do so.  We could have just taken the PR hit and given KP the John Wall treatment.