TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[StrandedOnBeauboisHill]

So what. He´s under contract till 2026. It´s called being a professional. Time heals all wounds. Better he throws his tantrum now than in two years.

Also kind of funny that you refer to players being treated as assets being a problem. Aside of me agreeing/disagreeing that this is bad behaviour, the Mavs have treated players like sh*t for decades from Tyson Chandler to JJB Barea to Harrison Barnes and Jalen Brunson. Only players they "treat well" are those they money-whip, so they simply cannot say no to the stupid offers they receive like Parsons, Matthews, Jordan or McGee.

There's truth to your first paragraph for sure but I think as a general rule, acting in a way that you know will upset your superstar franchise player is bad for business.  We simply disagree on that and it's fine.

Also, I also agree with your second statement.  This org has made a ton of hilariously bad decisions that have also pointed to an unhealthy culture.  I believe I made a comment in one of these conversations that tanking leads to bad culture in an org that already has a culture problem (somewhere in one of these threads I thought).  I don't think I chose the right words though (asset vs player) because the point I wanted to make is that tanking has a very human element and response to it that I think gets ignored.  Tanking teams rarely rebound immediately because they haven't developed winning habits.  It's just such a imperfect way of rebuilding that may really piss off our franchise cornerstone so I'd rather not do that if we can avoid it.

It also takes YEARS not just one to build a roster that way.  Maybe one pick and then a trade in our case could help but I mentioned this earlier, you're overvaluing how much some of these players can do out of the gate (imo).  All the teams that are tanking now are FULL of top 10 picks from recent years because 95% of the time those kids don't make a huge impact in year 1. (and I know we can just trade the pick we get but if we're going down that route I'd much rather win as much as possible with a healthy Luka to keep him as happy as possible then just trade next years after the draft).