2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

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Forget Ball. No interest. He blows. Wouldn’t give up two players, each who are comparable, for him. You just have to put the draft position out of your mind. It’s irrelevant. And he’d be a terrible backcourt partner with Luka.  That guy needs to be deadly.

A guard next to Luka who could 1) guard point guards exceptionally well, 2) hit the 3 at a high clip, and 3) quarterback with not much letdown when Luka was off the court would be a top 20 player in the NBA. If we're going to be that picky about it and insist that that guy be a ten out of ten in all three areas, we'll be waiting quite a while. Unless we can pry CP3 away from the Thunder, and who knows how much longer he'll be worth a damn.

Would love to have that guy. It’s not Ball. He’s a sub 50% shooter from the free throw line for his career and still below 60% this year.  He looks to be streaky three point shooter to me. I wouldn’t count on him consistently putting up the fair to decent performance he had this year from behind the arc.  The poor ft shooting just doesn’t lend itself to a belief that he’ll ever be a consistent shooter overall.  Luka’s backcourt mate needs to be a dead eye shooter and a defender, as those are Luka’s two weaknesses. Brunson can handle the pure backup point guard responsibilities.