02-07-2023, 11:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-07-2023, 11:04 AM by KillerLeft.)
(02-07-2023, 10:57 AM)mvossman Wrote: I'm not sure how this makes us better this year? Love is a clear downgrade from Wood and Rubio looks like he is going to need a year to fully recover from his injury.
I don't get the focus on clearing cap space for next season? If Kyrie walks for nothing, this will have been a complete failure of a trade (unless we win it all). If we don't hold on to Kyrie, the plan would be to S&T him to LA for (potentially) Harris and assets. In that scenario we are not going to have tons of cap space next offseason regardless.
It’s not the approach I would take either, creating cap space. But, that idea is coming from somewhere, and it’s probably from the team. The idea might not be to create cap space, but to get out of the luxury tax next year. “Cap space” might just be how they’re selling it. Cuban just took a huge financial hit on this trade. I think it’s like almost $30 million more he’ll have to spend.
I totally agree that if Irving doesn’t work out here long-term, the trade was a total disaster. I believe I’m on record for a full 24 hour period, nonstop, saying that I believe this to be the likely outcome. Disaster.
I disagree with your opinion that it would not make the team better, because Kevin love is probably a more win-now player than Wood, and much better than Bertans. I actually think Rubio off the bench would raise this team’s ceiling significantly.
It’s definitely not a sexy trade, but again, I am just working under the assumption that Cuban wants to save money next year and that for whatever reason, the Mavericks do not appreciate Wood the way that I do.