01-20-2021, 04:09 AM
(01-20-2021, 02:13 AM)HanspardsShowerVoice Wrote: This is exactly right. The Mavs have to be value investors, not momentum investors. This is why I wouldn't discount the Talen Horton-Tucker rumors. That's the type of free agent the Mavs should be researching. Players who might be undervalued to their talent level now compared to where they will be down the road. In THT's case 1) He just turned 20 years old. 2) He's buried on easily the best team in the NBA where it's hard to earn minutes and shots. Whereas if he played for a lesser talented non-contender he would be given more opportunities 3) People irrationally anchor their opinions on where players are drafted which is why they desperately want to believe there must be more to WCS/Nerlens Noel than there really is and less to Christian Wood than there really is.
I'm super high on THT which means there is zero chance the Mavs are interested in him. The MBT has also been traditionally bad at these type of evaluations but I guess this is a bit different as THT as an end of the bench player rather than a core rotational piece like Barnes/Parsons. He'll also command nowhere near the investment we put into those two reaches. On the flip side, the team has done a good job with reclamation projects (Powell, THJ, West, etc.) or fading stars and redefying their roles (Matrix, Tyson, etc.).