2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[HanspardShowerVoice]

Preaching to the choir, my guy. 

During last year's playoffs, I was ALL OVER THIS. Every single team who made it to the second round (including Houston, even) had more competent ball-handlers on the floor than the Mavs. Secondary playmaker was my title for awhile, before @"ItsGoTime" started getting cute with the title edit tool. 

But, it can't be just anyone. We've seen DSJ, Wright and now Richardson struggle to fit into this type of role next to Luka. It has to be someone really good at playing off-ball, too. 

I made this point awhile back, but every time you lock one player into place, the target for who fits next to them gets a little smaller, imo. The more rotation players you have written in pen, the more specific your needs get as to who can actually make the team better. I totally agree with your point. Playoff defenses will find a way to take Luka out of important possessions, and the Mavs MUST have a group on the floor who can take advantage of the resulting 4 on 3 situation. This is why I believe they wanted Kemba Walker.

Really, the more time  goes by I just hope for the Mavs sake that Brunsen can grow into that role, because finding that skillset in someone who isn't 1000 years old (Lowry, Conley), is really hard and/or really expensive.    When Oladipo is turning down 2/$45 and Fred Valvleet is giving a hometown discount for 4/85, that tells you what the market supply and demand dynamics are for that skillset.