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

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Cato has said that last part (trying to trade him immediately upon acquiring him) from the very beginning.  I can recall him saying Wood might not make it to camp or the season opener.  My interpretation of that was they’d wait until he could be aggregated and then make a move.  Of course that never happened and to be fair, no one else that I know of reported that.  If true, it certainly lends credence to the idea that the deal was all about moving the excess salaries.

If one ascribes to the idea that they would have taken Hardy with #26 and if the Mav’s had the deal for the second used for Hardy lined up in advance (certainly possible), then the price to dump salaries was really the two seconds they gave up to get the Hardy pick.

This organization is so messed who knows what they were thinking.

But I always viewed the Wood acquisition as hope of using him as a future move as well.  I have no proof on this but it is possible they made the decision Wood could allow them to trade with a pick for Myles Turner or John Collins at some point last year.  They made the calculation that Wood was more valuable then the guys they moved.  I think that would be fair.

This issues are twofold though, they didn’t even try to fake that they did not want Wood.  It got off on a wrong foot from the start.  And by the trade deadline they supposedly could  not find any deals.  You can’t create value with the snap of the finger but they Mavs didn’t do themselves any favors there.

Second, the continued non interest in the draft. Even if Hardy was the pick at 26, they were surprised he got to the Kings spot.  What happened if Hardy went earlier?  Sometimes being lucky is better than being good, unfortunately we need to rely almost exclusively on luck.