(04-19-2022, 09:06 PM)Winter Wrote: I can't really get my mind around all the Green love, so I'll ask a different question.
I think the question in my mind is, "How do you rank the following players in terms of trade value"? Green, Bertans, Burke, Frankie, Brown, and Powell.
These players - plus Hardaway - are the Mavericks best option in a trade scenario. You might add Dinwiddie in certain trade packages, but it would have to be a serious trade for a playmaker for something like that I think
Boban probably is not up for a trade, but maybe you could do something with him.
In the Green, Bertans Burke, Frankie, Brown and Powell scenario, it's entirely possible Green might be just as valuable as Powell to some other team. Youth matters. The other four players are hardly valuable in any real sense. Green and Powell are the players getting the minutes now - and have the most to offer a team.
So the real value the Mavericks have this summer are Hardaway, Powell and Green. Their salaries (and need) will largely dictate the factors in a trade.
Do I care if these players are traded away for a starter or even solid rotation players? Absolutely not. If these players are traded, we are going to miss Hardaway and Powell a lot more than we will miss Green. The Mavericks currently have an awkward roster construction that needs re-working. We can't make a trade if we have no talent to trade in return. If the Knicks ask for a combination of players in a sign-and-trade for Mitchell Robinson, and it includes Green, is anyone here going to be reluctant to do this trade because of Green? Of course not.
This is a Mavericks dilemma... not so much and individual player dilemma. The question, I think, should be about Green's value in comparison to other players and what the Mavericks current needs are.
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Maybe your mental block with Green is seeing him as only what his value to other teams in a trade would be.
Watch him on this Mavs team, his growth and confidence, compare some of his numbers with historical data and it's not hard to envision him becoming a very good basketball player for this Mavericks team.... Soon!
Also consider, this is an entirely new era... the Luka and Kidd era... empowerment and growth are inevitable, if this first year is any indication.