2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[Dundalis]

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. 

When Powell is on the floor with KP, the net rating is 13.5
When Maxi is on the floor with KP, the net rating is 2.9

No mystery here.

So then the better floor spacer is worse than having Powell out there? We need another floor spacer with KP why?

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If Mavs get another big like Favors then it could bump Powell back to the bench where he and Maxi can dominate the other teams bench.

SO much this. How much greater could the bench get? Put Powell and Maxi there and watch the domination! 

Powell/Maxi/Curry/Wright/Brunson ... DOMINATION!

Favors fits so well in this way as well as being a guy that can be a much better upgrade to the starting unit, I just don't understand why the FO doesn't see it. High character guy, who has shown the ability to play the pick and roll effectively, much better defender and is a hustle guy too, I just don't get it.

Shaq and Barkley don't get it either. Lot's of people don't get it. The Mavs do get it though, and I'm comfortable in the belief they are just smarter than all the arm chair experts out there who don't get it. Donnie will go after a player that fits into the analytics based offense we run, and if he's successful, great, and if he's not, he won't panic into trading for a guy that doesn't fit what we want to bring in.

I worded that incorrectly because I have no idea what the FO thinks about Favors or any other player to be brought in here thought to be an upgrade on Powell (there are a few direct quotes on some players). I don't think you do either. You're content in the thought that they will always do what's best for the team, I'm not. I think they make mistakes. You may be content with saying they make mistakes, but you are not willing to try to figure out where those mistakes are, I'm not that way.

I'm content with the proof that the coaching staff have implemented an analytics based style of play that has the team playing historic level offense, despite having nowhere near historic level offensive talent. I'm of the belief that the weight of that evidence, and the type of personnel enabling that kind of offensive efficiency will prevent Donnie and Cuban from bringing someone in that will mess with that. They may make mistakes, but they have a very large, very expensive analytics team that is obviously proving to be worth their weight, and I think they are smart enough to listen to what they have to say.

Rick clearly gave some insight as to what the information is being relayed by our analytics team in the Spurs post game presser, but it really doesn't take a rocket scientist to watch the Mavs play and have it be pretty obvious that everything Rick said is very clearly pretty critical to maintaining the offensive efficiency we have, and that having the wrong type of player on the court for too long that either won't or can't space the floor would significantly suppress what we are able to do. So no, I don't know, but there's a pretty significant amount of evidence available from what Rick has actually been saying for years now, to what is actually happening on the court every game.