04-08-2021, 12:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-08-2021, 12:24 PM by SleepingHero.)
(04-08-2021, 12:06 PM)cow Wrote: You'd miss Tim's 3PT shooting but could that be offset with the steady points DeRozan gives you? If you gave DeRozan a 4YR deal, I'm sure you could slip him into the 6th man role in the later years of the contract.
Sure in theory. But by losing THJ our bench becomes a shell. Multiple times our starters are MIA in the beginning and the Brunson+THJ duo comes in and carries us till we can wake up. Further, we saw in the beginning of the year about how having 2 bad 3pt shooters out there kills all the spacing, it'd be a risk adding DeRozan on that alone.
I can't see DeRozan ever being a 6th man until he's almost out of the league. If the Mavs could find a viable 6th man replacement I'm all for kicking the tires on DeRozan.
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