THE CRUCIFIX: Cato: Wood isn't thrilled w/ his role...Will depart in the summer

[omahen]

every trade is a gamble in some way, so i ain't calling the wood deal a failure or anything

Personally I don't have so much problem with the trade itself and I agree each one is a gamble to a certain extent. What I have a problem with is that Mavs missed on basically every trade so far in the "Luka era". From that perspective I think this trade and how they handled the overall situation is just another in a series of misses. Mavs traded a FRP for a guy to be third center and play 15-20 minutes of the bench and leave in the summer??? That is just stupid. Wood wasn't the last missing piece in the carefully laid out puzzle. The way they did it it was just another wasted asset in ever more desperate attempt to actually put some pieces around Luka.