Buyout Market 2023: Nerlens 10-day to Nets | Dragic to MIL

[SleepingHero]

My bad - I take full responsibility! 

I know what you mean, but we‘re supposed to be all in this season, otherwise the Kyrie trade doesn’t make sense. We learned last year that Powell isn’t playable in the playoffs. We learned this season that McGee isn’t really playable at all. We know that Maxi and Wood are maybe best when playing together. We also know that defense and rebounding are clearly our biggest weaknesses. So I won’t understand why we didn’t go after Noel. 

The only reason I can imagine could be that this season isn’t all about winning, but all about keeping Kyrie happy and therefore being able to keep him in the summer. Then it makes sense to keep Pinson and Morris over a much clearer need in Noel (or Dragic).

I'm actually starting to back off a bit on being all in this season. Of course any year where you have Luka you have a chance. And the fact they added Kyrie makes that fact ever more so true. 

But this team has serious flaws. No defensive wing or center really messes this team up. Kleber and Green are the only 2 keepers around Luka and Ky in my mind.

So I'm not too beat up that they aren't signing fringe role players in a stop gap attempt to fix these issues because odds are they won't.

Goal of the offseason is to turn Frank, Bertans, McGee, and Powell into 3 useable players. Wood is useable but he isn't coming back. That right there is almost half the roster in guys that are flawed. Get 2 or 3 actual solid role guys and the Mavs can make some noise next year provided Kyrie doesn't act like himself.