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

[cjeter24]

I think Dan's HIBW plan is what the Mavs are trying to do. 

OF COURSE! 

FYI, anytime I've advocated the 2021 plan, I've done so with the above in mind, fully ready to break off and commit to something awesome if/when the time comes. 

It's not all about Giannis. 

But honestly, HIBW is just a cap space plan, only the smart way to do it. Have a good team first, then maintain flexibility while improving the team. The exciting young players + playoff status + a little playoff success (hopefully) = PLAYERS WANT TO JOIN. On your way to creating that scene, you have the flexibility to ditch it for another Porzingis trade anytime another Porzingis situation comes up. Worst case scenario, you re-sign the guys you like and start an over the cap approach, only with players YOU signed to contracts YOU think they're worth. It's such a better situation than the Dirk years, which, in hindsight, make me think Don Nelson was hammered 24/7.  

Honestly, if everyone would just let Fish's stupid "plan powder" phrase go, people could get over the triggering that causes and start thinking instead of reacting. I believe that it's very obvious that they're on a good path, and while we obviously can't predict the outcome, at least they're not beating themselves.

I think we need to come up with a new name other than HIBW or Plan powder. 
But to me it's the Anti-AD Pelicans plan. they rushed to throw a contender around their star multiple times and never went anywhere because they couldn't get anything to fit right. 

I honestly am not that worried about cap space since the Butler trade last year. If someone wants there and they are a free agent... Most teams are willing to work with them in the end. 
For me it's all about asset management/acquisition until you get something that acquires you another star. That's either picks, players, cap space or a combo of all them. 

I've compared it to a high stakes game of Bigger or Better if you ever played that in your younger days at a camp or if you've ever done it in team building excercises with co workers. 

So far from last summers start when we gained pretty sizable flexibility we started with 0 assets in the next 3 years except Brunson our 2020 1st, GS 2nd and our 2nds. (We actually had some more 2nds we sent for Delon but not anything worth mentioning).

We took cap space and got Curry, DFS, Kleber, and Wright signed in FA. (Powell was still under contract so ignoring him)
We flipped Curry into Richardson who as a 2 way player and expiring is much more valuable, a high 2nd
Wright was flipped into a pretty large expiring and a decent bench guy. That expiring is worth something IMO. 

And thru development DFS and Kleber have gotten better so that's a better asset too. 

We literally started from 0 since all of our assets were exhausted from KP. So it's a slow process just like Bigger or Better to get to the winning item and win the prize.