2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[Chicagojk]

I had a little driving time today and listened something called the NBA Front Office podcast with Keith Smith and Trevor Lane.  I don’t know much about them except Lane also does some Laker related stuff and Smith is some kind of cap and analytics guy.

Anyway, DeRozan was the last name they discussed on their most recent podcast and the team they brought up was Dallas.  What they said was that he might be an interesting Plan B after they miss on whatever their main plan is.  They envision a two year deal starting at $25mm per year.  They thought it critical that the team that signs him stick to just a two year deal.  They said DeRozan has really made over his game.  He’s playing a good bit of PF and is much more of a facilitator averaging 7 assists per game.  They thought Dallas had enough 3 point shooting to make DeRozan fit as a secondary playmaker and 20 point scorer.  They didn’t think it to be an intuitive move, but once we saw it in action we’d all say “hmmmm that kind of makes sense”.

I got to be honest, 25 million seems a little rich to me.  I was thinking a max at around 18 million and was hoping for less than that.  

I want to note again, i have not watched much of the spurs.  So most of my Derozan experience is when we play the Spurs.   I have noticed his high assist number lately.   While he is not a great shooter, I think what interests me is when the mavs get in a dry spell and they keep on shooting three after three, a guy like Derozan can either get to the line or get a good percentage two point shot.   I just gives us another way to attack defenses rather than hoping we shoot a better percentage of threes than our competition or hope for a Luka Legend game to get a victory.   I would be lying if I could give much of an opinion on his defense though.