2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[SleepingHero]

Cuban could just say screw the LT and offer to bail the Wizards out. 

Beal, Westbrook, Bryant for THJ, JRich, JJ, Powell, Brunson, Boban and Terry. 

Wiz get to hit the reset button even though they have to take on Powell’s deal.  

Mavs roll out KP, Kleber, DFS, Beal and Luka. 

Tell Russ he gets free reign of the second unit with Bryant as the KP insurance.  

Mavs have to roll with the baby wings (Green, Iwundu, Bey, Hinton) and maybe some vet min buyout guys come on board.  

Wiz don’t get the high end young talent or draft capital they want for Beal but the trade off is they get to be done with Westbrook’s massive contract. 

Will it happen?  No. 
Would it be a smart move? No.

Would the starting 5 and super sixth man Russ make for an interesting watch? Yes

Is it bad that I think it'd be a smart move? I think the starting lineup would actually be:

Westbrook
Beal
Luka
Maxi
KP

At first that doesn't make sense, but when you think about it, Russ can be that secondary creator we've wanted next to Luka that can create off the dribble. Beal/KP/Maxi all space the floor so you can't pack the paint and this will finally make Luka play some off ball. 

Luka/Beal can come off at 7 mins, and you can have a 2 man game with KP/Russ. Then Luka Beal, etc. 

It think that'd actually work really really well. I'm not even kidding. Bryant tore his ACL so he'd be a deadweight throw in. I'd trade all our firsts for Beal alone so I wouldn't mind going all in with this deal.

The only hangup would be WB attitude and how he'd like playing 2nd fiddle next to Luka. But the Mavs would create a super big 2 with Luka/Beal alone. Maybe he'd put his attitude aside and would want to win a ring.