DRAFT: #18 [Green] & #31 [Terry] & trade for #36 [Tyler Bey]

[Scott41theMavs]

My main concern is how many PGs are going to be available around pick 18.
Hopefully the Mavs can resist and pick a wing.
Wonder if they use pick 31 and future 2nds to get another pick in the early 20s.
Coming away with 2 out of Green, Bey, Bey, Nesmith or Ramsey would be great.
Adding wing depth has to be the main priority this offseason, starting with the draft.

Mavs should not be picking for position.
We have a need in every position if we are being honest.The Mavs always wanted a PG beside Luka and rightfully so. He always played beside one in Europe but never had a chance to play beside a starting caliber ball handler/PG. And Wright is really bad fit in the team and Barea should be retiring.

Wing is huge need too, don't think we need to elaborate on this.
We are also so thin in big man rotation, especially when we don't know when DP will return and how good he will be.

Just draft best available player.

Completely agree. There are several types of players who could be valuable here.

One more thing...if this is a top 4-5 team in the west, then someone picked at #18 isn't going to be a factor anytime soon. This pick is for 2-3 years down the line. If someone picked at #18 is counted on to be a factor now, then this isn't a top 4-5 team in the west.

I'll bet good money that there is a player available at #18 who ends up starting for a playoff team next year. I'm not saying that the Mavs will have the drafting acumen to get that player. I'm saying that it's a quite safe bet given NBA draft history that that player exists even in a supposedly weak draft. I also want to be clear that I do not trust the Mavs' drafting ability to get that player. Furthermore, none of us has a butterfly effect crystal ball, but I would also bet good money that, if we did miraculously happen on that player who would be the starter on the playoff team for anyone else, he'd be buried, not on the deep bench, but in the G league with this coaching staff which is so allergic to developing young players not named Luka or DFS. What I'm saying is, considering the points others made between our posts about how terrible the value of draft picks is in this draft (regardless of how good a given player drafted at a given position ends up being), there ain't much hope from my perspective to this offseason. We don't need another Porzingis, but we do need another Porzingis-level miracle in terms of bang for buck in trade for our assets, because the draft has virtually nil hope in using the pick nor trading, and we have no cap room.

Edit: I keep forgetting about Brunson - the drafting bright spot in a rather wretched recent history (aside from the one time we had a top five pick, of course). He's better than most of us here generally give him credit for. The level of his quarterbacking, shooting, and defensive abilities make him a very poor man's version of what we need next to Luka, but I would say he's the only point guard on roster who is really average-to-plus-side in all of those categories. In any event, he was the second-best player available where he was drafted, so an A- to the MBT for him. Maybe they *can* draft that guy who's going to be that one available gem there, but if they do, they'd better do a slightly better job than they have with Brunson, and far better than they've done with the other young players aside from Luka and DFS over the past three years or so, in developing that guy.