2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[ItsGoTime]

You can have both players. Mavs need more depth anyway. Powell would be much better suited off the bench where his defensive shortcomings are not exposed. Favors can still roll to the rim with Luka.

So much this...so, so, so much this.

I still haven't gotten the answer to my question asked so many times. If Powell is your starting C, why, when looking for a C upgrade, do we need to get a 3 point shooter?

The answer to that question is that Rick wants a player that allow Porzingas to do both. He would like a player that could completely switch roles with KP so that defenses cannot play him one way. With Powell on the floor you can play Porzingas as a spot up shooter and IF KP is setting up P&R then Powell's man can help the lane defense because Powell is not quite the shooter KP is.

The interesting role here is that Maxi seems more valuable than DP even though he doesn't start. KP and Maxi should be more interchangeable on the floor together, he doesn't have DP's roll game, but he is a better roller than DP is a shooter.

Point being that an upgrade to us on defense has to have these skill sets to get on the floor offensively.

I've never heard or read about him saying that, where did I miss that discussion?

As people keep saying, we have the #1 offense ever with Powell doing what he's doing. If you upgrade him with a guy who can play better defensively and still do what he's doing for the most part on offense, why is that "the devil" as my momma keeps telling me. In other words, the question is still not answered IMO.

Salary, offseason promises, and Mark's love affair with Powell is the only reason I can come up with in answer to why Maxi is not playing more with the starters. It's probably something else or this with something else added to it, but it just seems the eye test says Maxi should be with the starters more than DP. Although, I don't think MK is starter quality either, he seems to do worse when he has started in the past (haven't researched those numbers either).

Which skill sets? I would love to have a good to great defensive player who doesn't easily get pushed around and can shoot 3's, there are maybe a few guys in the league with that ability. Once you drop the requirement of having to shoot 3's, the list opens up considerably as does the money value of the player and the availability. The 3 is something that might be developed over a couple seasons too (might, because we know DP has been working on it over a few seasons and it has not panned out for him, then again, it took him a few seasons to figure out how to set a decent pick, roll to the basket, then jump to catch a lob pass and dunk it...).