2019-2020 Mavs Trade Discussion + Salary Chart

[Dundalis]

Y'all make me nuts with this Hield talk. We have the best offensive rating of all time and we are going to get another offense-only player? Let's get somebody who can guard the other team's best player. Right now we have good not elite DFS and Maxi as our big stoppers. KP is really our best defensive player by far but he is of course not a perimeter defender. We need an elite perimeter defender or it doesn't matter how many shooters we have.

This is a super short sighted outlook. The fact is, we do not have a reliable third go to guy. People are all over someone like Trey Burke after a handful of good games and it speaks volumes about how easily we get hooked into recency bias. These players have track records. They aren't rookies with no history. You can ignore that track record all you like and say what they are doing now is what they are gonna be going forward. It just doesn't always work like that, in fact we've been screwed in the past thinking that way. Especially in Burke's case, but also potentially in THJ's case, or even a bunch of other players having absolute career seasons in terms of shooting percentages. The other problem is the fact that we have what is potentially a very unreliable second option. Who knows how KP's health will hold up? The knee issue is quite concerning to me, and while the FO put faith in him by trading for him and giving him that contract, to not plan for worst case is to straight up be negligent.

Just because this team had the best offensive rating ever, doesn't mean that will continue to be the case. We do not have close to the offensive talent of a Golden State Warriors. To think we are anywhere close because of this efficiency stat is foolish. We have a bunch of guys who've been streaky shooters their entire careers, all of a sudden have their most efficient shooting seasons ever, at the same time. I think it's a bad idea to rely on that. This is not to say we don't need defense. We absolutely do. I'm just saying taking the outlook that this team is loaded with offensive talent and therefore we look at other areas is just not really looking judiciously at our roster. We need high level talent, offensively or defensively, particularly players that fit the style we play.

Sorry for being rude, but that's BS. 
Buddy Hield is as bad as it gets as a third option. He isn't able to create any shot for anyone.

He is an elite spotup or catch and shoot shooter. And guess what. He is also streaky as hell. Because shooting is a streaky skill. 

I would't even say he is that much overpayed because he is doing his role at such high level and volume,( if his coach let him). But in the end we get much of his production and some by Curry for a third of the price. 

Would I take an elite two-way-wing? LOL Yes, of course. Do we get one without trading Luka? No, so why not trying to improve with small steps.

No apology needed, I don't mind. By your logic, Steph Curry, the greatest shooter of all time is streaky, because he only shoots 43.5% over his career. Meaning he misses more than he makes and has plenty of bad shooting nights. Taking the word streaky with no contextual reference is kinda dumb. Streaky shooting is always used by comparison to other players in the league, not as an irrelative definition, otherwise it carries no real meaning, I thought that was obvious. Hield is a straight up elite shooter as he has proven over his entire career, as opposed to just a run of a couple games or just one season. The only player we have in his league as a deep threat is Curry. Hield can do what Curry does at much higher volume, and the idea that having two players in that category doesn't carry a significant positive impact on our offense especially as one of the heaviest 3 point shooting focused teams in the league, is just underestimating the gravity and spacing a truly elite shooter can bring.

9 attempts per game from 3 at his career shooting percentage is defense warping for other teams. I think our system caters to his skillset so well he does better than his career average, possibly at or better than his career best, like a whole bunch of our players have done this season. But this is not about Hield being the best trade option. This is about him absolutely being a good trade option of the players whom have both been made available and that we could potentially trade for with the non Luka and KP assets we have. To say he's as bad as it gets as a third option is just ignorant. Especially the way our team is setup and functions, Heild's offensive skillset as a starter is almost as perfectly complementary as you can get (sure it would be nice if he could also ball handle and create a bit) when you already have a player who completely dominates the ball. Obviously an elite 3&D wing who can ball handle some would be the best outcome. Having Hield replacing THJ in the starting lineup, and then finding another DFS equivalent or hopefully better puts us in a pretty good position going forward IMO. We obviously would prefer a secondary ball handler in the starting lineup, but you don't get to just construct the perfect lineup with the perfect attributes like you are creating players in 2K.