01-29-2021, 01:11 PM
(01-29-2021, 11:27 AM)MaxiThreeba Wrote: Wood continues to be a prime example of the stupidity of missing on talent upgrades because MBT is always chasing the big fish.
Cuban can say their powder staying dry was just a coincidence all he wants but he's full of it. They didn't learn from all their previous blunders and wasting the end of Dirk's career and they're doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
Who knows if Wood could have been had but for the sake of argument lets just say he would have come here. He goes out and puts up 20/10 while KP is out and all of the sudden you have the option of dealing from a position of strength and using KP or Wood to go land that secondary creator next to Luka.
Instead you have some expirings, no headliner, mortgaging your draft capital and of course plan powder as your only avenues for improvement.
If Wood is a Mav the trade options that open up are huge. But he is a Rocket...putting up great numbers...and here we sit with one last offseason before this roster gets fairly locked up.
I don’t have a real attachment to wood as a player one way or the other. But I wholeheartedly agree with the part about the Mavs asset management. We should still be in the talent gathering phase. Especially young talent. As we’ve seen you can always flip that for a better fitting piece later. But you have to have it first.