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

[Mavs2021]

How many minutes did Wood get for the Mavs this season?  How many minutes did the four outgoing players we traded for him get with the Mavs the previous season?

What does it matter? In the end you traded a 1st round pick for a player you demoted before the season even started. That´s once again atrocious asset management. If they had kept the pick, taken Hardy, they retain their two 2nd round picks. In combination with our last remaining 1st round pick they could have been used to acquire the whole Lakers/Utah package of Russell, Beasley, Vanderbilt and Bamba on top.

The Mavs always make bad decisions, cause that´s what bad franchises do.

I can give you the exact reasons why they did the Wood trade.

60%: these four other guys should be in China. At least Wood is better. No idea whether he fits the team, no idea whether he fits the coach, but since...
30%: ....we don´t care about first round picks and...
10%: we´ll officially lose Brunson in ten days, let´s throw the fans a bone.

That´s their scary way of thinking.

Also this goes back to the Luka draft. Now that Hardy seems to work out, they pretend like they REALLY REALLY knew. But just like it was with Luka, if they truly knew, they´d have never traded that 25th pick for Wood and they would not have butchered the tank in the Luka draft either.

As we have seen on the final day this year, you don´t win games, you do not want to win. You never put yourself into the position of losing out on Luka Doncic, because of some miracle buzzerbeater.