2020-2021 MAVS NEWS: Archived

[Mavs2021]

For someone who often accuses fans of being blind homers, you certainly believe the rest of the NBA is eager away their best players to the Mavs for not particularly good reason or comparable compensation.

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I guess I don't understand how letting what is currently our 2nd best player on a team on the verge of making it to the 2nd round of the playoffs walk brings in the 2nd star.  What are you replacing him with that is star caliber or better than what he is?  

 I see a lot of conjecture that people don't want to pay THJ his market value .. so okay, you're going to pinch some pennies and hope to sign a comparable player for $4-5 million less than THJ, and do what with that $4 million exactly?   Spend it in this free agent market on friggin Andre Drummond or Kelly Oubre?    How is that upgrading our star power?   Youre advocating for just another version of Plan Powder here that theoreticallyh some superstar is going to fall into our lap if we don't pay our 2nd best player through some mysterious and unspecified means.

We don´t need to compensate anyone for Markkanen this year or Lavine next year. All we need is agent collusion and capspace.

Luka is the best player on the planet. If you can´t convince one top FAs to play with him, you simply suck at your job.

Furthermore if you don´t think that Turner/Lamb for Porzingis is a fair trade, then you must think Porzingis is super-trash.

Now you basically want Luka to win titles with THJ as the 2nd best player and trash as your 3rd best player.

THJ is averaging 17/4/2 in the post-season,
Porzingis ia averaging 14/4/1 in the post-season,

while playing off an attention magnet.

All you need to step out of the Mavs bubble and you´ll find that from Zach Lowe to every random realGM messageboarder they all say the same thing: Can somebody get Luka some help.