TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[StrandedOnBeauboisHill]

WRONG.

The middle ground is the worst place to be. Either f*ck it up completely by trading Green/Hardy/more future picks for aging starters like Bogdanovic or Turner to win the championship now (LOL) or burn it to the ground, tank and start over with Luka, Green and Hardy, your 2022 pick and a better cap structure.

You can´t tank is such a BS line. Luka misses 20 games with made up minor injuries, we are going at least 3-17, if not 0-20 with Hardy/Green playing 35 MPG.

We are 14-14 with Luka playing 37 MPG. Just playing Luka 27 MPG probably drops us into Lakers/Thunder 11-16 territory. Also Houston has as many road wins and home losses as the Mavs! Our schedule is home heavy.

This team can easily tank. Of course you cannot half-ass it, which is a Mark Cuban specialty.

It´s truly astonishing that after owning this team for 20 years, he still hasn´t figured out that Hardy and Green rapidly improving throughout the season (maybe 10-15 PPG toward the end of the year) and a high-end draft pick at the end (top 5) are a bigger drawing card for Luka to stay than some shitty veteran roster with a 1st round ceiling.

Not sure how you can look at Lukas body language right now and think that losing more is what’s going to keep him around longer. You always talk about tanking as if these guys aren’t competitors. You think Luka was barking “let’s get Victor or Scoot” to Cuban when we walked by all pissed last night?