2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[ItsGoTime]

There is absolutely no agreement on what we need.  A defensive wing?  Another big?  Should it be a veteran band aide?  Of, a youngster to grow up with our unicorns?  There is absolutely no agreement on who is expendable.  In fact, it changes from game to game.  A week ago Curry is a dog.  Two games later he is an indispensable cog.  Almost everyone on the roster has had a stretch where they looked fantastic.  The truth is we have a delicate balance that works pretty well.  When you are a 55-ish (pace) win team, improvement is likely to be incremental and comes at some risk unless you have the ability to land KD like GSW did.  

I think the no agreement is indicative of how many needs we actually have. 

I also dislike the game-to-game assessment of the value of our players, that gets annoying. I will say, we went through this with Dirk. When the players were playing well, there was no need for trade, when they didn't, trade everyone. 

Those two things make it really hard to please everyone when proposing a trade, someone will surely not like your proposal no matter what it is. I have found that when you get one or two fans to say they think the trade is too much on our end that that is usually a pretty spot on trade for value.

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I don't think it's obvious that a 3 for 1 for an established starter is a clear upgrade. I think this team may still be growing. I say exercise caution when tampering with this season.

I find it hard to think that tampering with this season would blow up the goals we had at the beginning of the season, make the playoffs. I think we have a surplus of players that work in this system. Because of that I think we can take a bite into that surplus if the return is at least an incremental gain (the degree of increment will allow for a bigger or smaller bite). This was the philosophy I think Nellie had. Trade til the pieces fit. I've said I like the continuity we have with some of the players on this team, but there are, to me, some pretty obvious holes in our roster in terms of when we get to the playoffs. I don't mind looking that far ahead at this point, because it will take a pretty huge collapse to not attain our beginning of season goal. Even the Rondo trade got us into the playoffs.