2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[Mavs2021]

And when all of that doesn't work in a year, you dump everyone and start from scratch again...

See. So at least say it: Our FO is bad. I don´t trust them at all. 

It says a lot that you´d rather keep a guy, who plays like a solid $18M player, the 57% of time he does play, and has one foot in the John Wall mansion on Blake Griffin island.

Most teams would cut their losses.

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You were also one of the people that (rightfully and 100% correctly) said we should talk with the Hawks before FA even starts, so be up front about it.

Say they´ll get a lottery protected 1st round pick from us, if they don´t match a max offer. They can pick the year of the available picks. Furthermore we will trade Porzingis and they have the option to get that 1st round pick from that trade partner instead (also lottery protected). Say Hornets or Kings for example.

Tell Collins, that we will trade Porzingis 100%. You are our #2 guy. We will PnR/PnP the other teams to death with you and Luka. Trade Porzingis to the Hornets for some medium draft compensation. Sign Richaun Holmes.

Luka
X
DFS
Collins
Holmes

X marks the spot for 2022 Lavine or Beal. That´s an actual plan.

You put that to Duffy/Lavine and say: Look we sucked in the past, but we got our house in order. The whole plan was designed for you. You are the missing piece. We´ll get you so many wide open threes from the Luka/Collins PnR, you can make 10 every game. When Luka rests, you get the ball, and we run everything through you.

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What´s the alternative to get us an actual  rim protector, who needs to take serious minutes of Porzingis AND a legit #2 option, who needs to take shots from Porzingis....without this escalating quickly?  He´s allegedly complaining about touches right now, then he gets punked by a rookie without Luka. It´s not just the injury risk/performance problem. His $30M salary prevents us from fixing our problem areas.

So all signs point to trading Porzingis asap for all the reasons outlined above.