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

[jesusshuttlesworth82]

You guys are all overblowing their culture issue.

If some dumb franchise had offered THJ 100/4, he´d have been like, nah I love this Mavs culture so much, I´ll opt into my final year.

Hayward was looking for that last huge payday (before his injury+age-related decline) and his calculated gamble paid off.

Is Ainge a ruthless mofo? Absolutely, but come on now.

Right there with you in terms of signing/keeping players. Money rules.

But in terms of the team reaching its potential? In terms of winning? It still might be overblown, but I think it matters.

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@"cow"'s gif game has definitely gone up a notch over the past week.

Expecting a 4-5 seed

Taking from here. 

Top of West. LAC, LAL and Denver are powerhouses. First two improved, Denver core is young so a certain level of improvement can be expected. However, they were unable to improve at a SG position (Harris), where they had the biggest hole. Portland improved greatly on the paper. They look terrific. These four will be difficult to beat.

Solid playoff teams. I would put Utah, GSW and Dallas here. 

Playoff hopefulls. Houston, Memphis and Phoenix in this tier. Houston is just a little worse, but a ticking bomb. Tucker, Westbrook, Harden are reportedly unhappy. Phoenix made that huge CP3 deal, but followed by meh draft. They covered some holes in FA. I don't think they improved enough to be a tier higher. Can Memphis repeat the very successful season?

Think they are a playoff team but not likely. San Antonio, New Orleans, Minnesota. San Antonio drafted well and mostly kept the group, so they will remain a fringe playoff team. They might start a firesale at TDL if they feel they don't make it. New Orleans built somehow strange team with pieces that don't really fit the idea of modern basketball, but defense will be better than last year. Minnesota put together a very straneg roster. Most of main guys don't play defense, but have big offensive talent. Rubio is very strange decision for this group. They don't have wings and overpaid Beasley. 

Rebuilding: Sacramento. Unless they match Bogi offer from Atlanta, they will be worse. But seems like FO has given new management time to build a team that makes sense. 

G-league: OKC. They might be historically bad. Horford and SGA (I expect Hill gone) are the only serious players on the roster, the rest is a group of guys that barely played up to now. They might be fighting hard, but will just lack quality for something more.

The Lakers lost Bradley, Green, and Rondo arguably 3 of their top 5 perimeter players. The McGee/Howard combination was pretty salty. 

I do not think they got better. Wesley Matthews is trash on defense. KL is going to abuse him

I get that we're supposed to hate the Lakers but 90% of this board thought they had no shot last year because of their lack of depth.  Now they get legit depth and people think they got worse.

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I don't see the fit with Harrell and AD together. 

There isn't.

Schroeder and Harrell allow them to not run Lebron and AD into the ground in a season where there are a lot of games packed into fewer days.

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Wow, so the nuggets never got Blake Griffin? No way they messed up that bad. I thought the Grant and Plumlee salaries matched perfect

why the heck would they want Blake Griffin?  This aint a video game.  Jamychal Green isnt that big a downgrade from Jerami Grant.  Grant's on/off numbers were absolutely terrible last year.  Denver was a lot better when he was on the bench.