2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[mvossman]

Yep

I think you have to turn around and flip KP for a playmaker if you want to invest close to $30 million a year on Holmes and Powell.

In a vacuum, I get that we can replace THJ and JRich with an $18 million dollar Norman Powell.  But Powell makes THJ and Jrich look like Magic Johnson.  Career average of 1.4 assists a game.  Powell and DFS offer 0 playmaking.  

Honestly, if I wasn't a Mavs fan, I would say this team is already not that fun to watch.  It's the Luka show like the Harden Rockets.  I would like to get a secondary guy that can do things with the ball like they did with Chris Paul.  Also I hope that Luka is more concerned with winning than putting up Harden or Westbrook numbers.  Lebron could average 35/10/10 isntead of 27/7/7 but he's learned that the playoffs are what it's about.  

This is why Graham would be the guy I go after with Holmes.  Then you have shored up your playmaking needs as well as frontcourt help.  If that is not doable, then a decent backup plan would be Dragic.  You could probably get him around MLE (this is assuming Miami gets Lowry) and have room to get somebody like Mcdermott for bench scoring. 

If we actually managed to land Conley or Lowry, then we can't afford Holmes and you look to somebody like Theis for frontcourt help.