2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[DanSchwartzgan]

 

I think the Mavs believe Josh Green could eventually fill in the role of J-Rich...a defender and a 3 point shooter.   

Green would be the 5th option as our starter.  His job this summer is to shoot 500 3s a day and work on his shooting.  I think he has shown flashes of being a good defender.  He has a long way to go but the potential is there.

This crosses my mind every time I think through a scenario where I keep JRich and move THJ.  I think that if they like Green, then this doesn't make sense and THJ is the keeper if Green is ever going to be a player.

I listened to a podcast yesterday where the host said something along the lines of "the target is probably someone nobody is talking about" because that's what the Mav's always do.  We have discussed the RFA PF's and the 33+ PG's and Ball and all sorts of MLE options.  Probably the best FA who hasn't gotten any discussion is Norman Powell.  He's the kind of guy we can sign at 5:01 and we don't need to do any kind of negotiation.  If we do negotiate, Portland is the kind of place that might could use Richardson (27th ranked D and plenty of O even before Powell showed up).  

The question is the fit with Dallas.  There is talk of needing another 15 point scorer.  He can do that and is a much scarier offensive threat than THJ.  He's not a defender (which is why I bring him up in a post focused on Josh Green).  But for as good an offensive team as we are, it gets really hard to score sometimes.  I'm not in love with the idea, but Powell hasn't always been the defensive disaster he's been this season (and he wasn't always the offensive powerhouse he's become either (95th percentile in Offensive RPM, 91st percentile in Offensive Raptor and 85th percentile in O-Lebron Box).  If he started in place of JRich and you added Theis and had Theis, Melli and Green as plus defenders off the bench, I wonder if you'd be more successful overall even if your D takes a bit of a hit.