03-31-2021, 02:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-31-2021, 02:52 PM by HanspardShowerVoice.)
(03-31-2021, 02:06 PM)StepBackJay Wrote: Mavs had good trade ammunition this past offseason, #18 + two very high seconds, players on value contracts and sort of blew it. I get they tried hard for Haliburton and I salute them for that.
They also tried for RoCo, but they couldn't top the Blazers offer because they didn't have a 2021 1st. And RoCo is far from a "3rd Star" calliber player at this point in his career, which is why the Blazers just had to trade for Powell to bring in more scoring that RoCo can't provide.
So, no, I don't think the Mavs had the capital for a "3rd Star" caliber trade for the #18 pick and 2nds. I'm not even sure that's significant trade capital for solid starter, much less 3rd star.
The bottomline is there are ramifications for big trade packages for Luka and KP .. mainly, it's almost impossible to build future big trade packages. Just because the shine has worn off those trades and we want new shiny toys to play with doesn't mean the organizatonal cost just evaporated. The Mavs bought Luka and KP on the credit card, hit the draft capital credit card limit and now they're paying off the bill. Paying off the credit card bill isn't fun, but that's the way it works.