DAL OFFSEASON: Trade & FA | Mavs "mostly done...but you never know."

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In other words, outside of KP and Luka, our entire team is high-end bench or low-end starters (Which we all know).  They can all be replaced and we shouldn’t be nearly as wed to these guys as many of us are.  BTW, these ratings are WITH the lift that comes from playing with Luka.  Some thoughts:

THJ:  This is the path to cap room in 2021.  If he goes this off-season it is either for a higher priced expiring deal or Plan Powder is off and we are making a series of deals to lock down better players.  THJ isn’t our problem except that we need another playmaker somewhere and he isn’t it.  There is also the concern as to whether his elite volume three point shooting is repeatable.

Powell:  It is kind of ridiculous to put Powell in deals right now.  Classic Sell-Low.  No team is giving up value for Powell until they see him on the court.  I like Powell and still think he is negative value in trades.  Unless John Wall is coming back, there just isn’t much point in including Powell in deals right now.

Brunson, Wright, DFS, WCS:  It is great that our backups are “high-end” backups.  Unfortunately, DFS is a starter and Wright makes starter money.  A team can probably afford to start one “high-end” backup if it is stronger in its top four.  Unfortunately...

Maxi, Curry:  These two along with THJ don’t provide enough to qualify for being strong at spots 3 and 4.  Basically we have seven guys who would make good 5th/6th man types (eight if Powell is healthy).  

It would be a fantastic luxury to be that strong at the top of the bench/5th man if we had that 3rd/4th guy.  Until we do, everyone should be fair game.  You can find what Maxi and Curry and THJ and DFS and Brunson provide fairly easily.  To say that any of these guys is off limits is nuts.  

Since Maxi is the one most often tagged as untouchable, I’ll just say that if someone suggested trading for a big with a PER of 13 and a negative On Minus Off who put up 12 points per 36 and a TRB% of 10, we’d not be particularly excited.  But since he is OUR PER of 13 and TRB% of 10, he’s great.  We are cheering for laundry.

Holy crap. I've been saying exactly this since the first post of those saying any of these guys are untouchable. Glad to finally see someone else say it.

Almost all of these guys assembled were in some way or another plans B-F of some offseason/trade. Can we not lose sight of that? I'm glad we've built them into good assets, but that's what they are right now until we have the set starters in the rotation.

Whether or not the MBT (after hearing of the history of MBT, I'll use it again since I now know it didn't come from the other site) thinks in this way or not, it's still a true statement...and they SHOULD think in this way.

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I think his point is players (and owners and politicians and CEO's and Hollywood types and media members) often say things they aren't 100% sincere about.  It is 100% true he's a Pacer.  That statement says nothing about his desire to remain one.  Kyrie said something similar (actually stronger) at the beginning of his last season in Boston.  It didn't keep him from jumping ship when the season ended.  Same with Kemba his last season in Charlotte (even though everyone knew otherwise).  It is how the game is played.

I don't get how I said anything different from that in my statement?

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With Rondo winning a ring, Cuban would probably give Powell $80M right now.

Great line!