11-17-2022, 11:47 PM
(11-17-2022, 10:35 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Agree to disagree on the "empty calories" part. He's an injury risk, sure, and that's not likely to improve as he gets older, but...people are on here all day every day screaming for more basketball skill and here's a guy who can floor the ball to great effect, make every pass in the game, score from all three levels, has good length and plays defense way above average. In fact, he'd probably be the Mavs' third best defender, behind DFS and Kleber, imo. The amount of ball handling/playmaking in the rotation would be helped significantly. This is a dude they could actually run an offense through, even more so than Wood.
AND, he's SMART. When in doubt, pick up smart players. That's what I believe, anyway.
He's not a bad player, just overhyped and I never understood all the hype when he hit free agency and went to the Celtics. Three playoff series as the main guy for Utah which ended. One series win, swept the other two series. He's always felt like a guy that put up good numbers but really didn't have that large of an impact on winning and that's before the tragic injury with the Celtics.
I'd take him for free or whatever you'd consider the few second round picks we have available and salary matches, but I wouldn't give up any of Din, Wood, DFS or Maxi for him and certainly not a first rounder.