2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[Dundalis]

Did anyone actually listen to Rick's postgame presser?

Because if you did, there is no more candid way for the coach to say what I've been saying for a while now about the type of players needed to fit into this teams system.

There's no way you can listen to that and think the Mavs would have remotely any interest in bringing in a bunch of the bigs we've identified as trade targets. If they can't shoot the 3 or aren't high level roll threats (basically be effective spending the majority of their time on offense standing on the 3 point line), there's no point talking about them (unless they can do what Boban does better, and are willing to play a similar bit part role).

There are two reasons (three if you count the misguided opinions of some here regarding Powell) for considering the addition of some kind of big man. 

1.  Depth.  I'm not sure we survive a Powell or Maxi or KP injury nearly as well as we did the Luka injury.  We are extremely thin up front and don't have a good answer if one of them goes down.

2. Post D.  Dallas seems happy to leave Powell on an island guarding the Aldridge's and Davis's of the world.  It isn't a good look as they score fairly easily on him (of course, we've played pretty well against teams with the biggest bigs...maybe Carlisle is onto something)

I think you are right about bigs either needing to be good PnR guys or 3 point shooters (or both).  I loved the idea of adding Favors last year and summer.  He's in the 28% percentile of roll men this  year, but last year, on a team with no spacing but a good PG, he was in the 72nd percentile.  I'm not sure where the minutes would come from, but I like the idea of adding someone more mobile that Boban to the front court, but big enough to hold their own on post D.  Do you trade for him?  Or use the MLE this summer?

John Henson is a REALLY good defender and has been hitting his corner 3's the last two seasons.  He'd be really cheap to acquire and wouldn't command 30 minutes a night like some bigger name bigs.  Former Mav's summer league player Christian Wood hits 3's and is a top roll man.  Good name to keep an eye on this summer as he is unrestricted.  He and Bruce Brown are actually the guys I'm interested in from Detroit...not the bigger dollar bigger name guys.  Bertans and Harrell are two other summer names.  Even someone like Meyers Leonard would be a fit and wouldn't cost a ton.  Dieng is a good defender and a good roll man, but you'd have to pay me something to take on his money and Minnesota is thin on currency.  I don't think we need a star big and we certainly don't need a back to the basket guy who ruins our spacing.  Anyone who watches the video posted about how the bigger ball dominant players like Luka, Hardin and Lebron are changing the game know exactly what their teams value and you've nailed it.

Myles Turner is the only big I've heard that is available that fits the 3&D requirement pretty well. Favors just doesn't move the needle for me and there's too much risk he clogs the offense if his rim running isn't up to snuff. Dunno if we have any chance of getting him (probably don't have the assets), but he would be such a perfect fit, not only due to skill set, but also due to his age and therefore timeline with Luka and KP.