ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

[DanSchwartzgan]

In a vacuum I like that trade, but it makes less sense after the Wood move.  Harris makes sense paired with a traditional defensive center, but the Wood/Harris combination does not provide a lot of rim protection/defense.

Actually, I am really warming up to the Wood/Maxi pairing, and McGee makes that possible as the quality backup center.  Right now I think our focus should be on signing Dragic and wait until the TDL to make any more moves.  At that point we need to either trade or extend Wood, Powell has value as an expiring and hopefully we have built Timmy's value back up.

If you look at the roster with Dragic, it is good and deep.  Not contention worthy, but probably as good as last season and top 4 seed is a strong possibility.

Luka/Dragic/Hardy
Din/THJ/Frank
Bullock/DFS/Green
DFS/Maxi/Bertans
Wood/McGee/Powell

Took me a while to find this buried in all of the Brooklyn speculation.  To briefly address that, I could see anyone of the three stars there being a Dallas possibility and could be talked into any of them, but I'm hoping we steer clear of that mess.  KD is 34 coming off an Achilles injury.  We can match salary and send 25, 27 and 29 and have a competitive offer and a competitive team afterwards.  But, he's not likely to be playing here in 27 or 29 and I don't like trading picks past the useful life of the incoming player.  Kyrie is a very talented nut case.  Simmons would have much greater value at the TDL or next summer.  Brooklyn would be smart to hold onto him for now.

Back to Tobias...3/4th's of the board thinks I'm crazy for thinking Wood will play some time at PF.  If we add Harris (or Simmons for that matter), Wood is a full time center and you have McGee/Maxi backing up Wood/Harris.  Since three of those guys can shoot the 3, you can and probably would play any combination of Wood, Harris, Maxi and McGee.  We went to the WCF's with our C/PF combo being Powell/DFS.  It is hard to argue that Wood/Harris wouldn't be better (with DFS moving to the three).  Harris provides some shot creation taking some pressure off of losing Brunson without sacrificing size or defense.  Post the all-star break (after the Harden trade), Harris become more of a good role player (rather than a bad star).  He shot .400 from thre and Philly was +9.3 when he played.  He hit .386 on 3's in the playoffs at 16.9/7.6 and 2.9 assists.

You'd basically have highly mobile Wood and three guys who are basically the same size in Harris, DFS and Luka.  You'd add someone to defend the point of attack (Bullock) and you are good to go.  Dinwiddie backs up the point as the sixth man.  Thybulle backs up DFS and Bullock at the wing.  I wonder if there is a way to include Springer as a third PG (or McBride as part of a JB S&T).  Maybe that is why we didn't get Dragic.  Put me in the camp that there is something going where we get back an extra player who can play point in whatever else is going on.

Philly sets up well for this.  They have extra guys in Niang, Milsap and Reed at the four with the addition of Tucker.  They need shooting and have a pretty obvious opening at the 3 if Thybulle is gone.  They need a backup C.  I think I can make more sense of this than the Brooklyn deals.  Also, Harris expires a year earlier than Hardaway if we are working toward cap room in 24/25