04-30-2021, 03:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-30-2021, 03:38 PM by StrandedOnBeauboisHill.)
(04-30-2021, 03:06 PM)StepBackJay Wrote: Like what were the Mavs going to do?
I think it's a fair assessment to say "Luke expedited our timeline so we made a very strong move to expedite our roster construction with the KP trade." which was absolutely the right thing for us to do. It's all hindsight now, but I think the answer to "what were we going to do?" kind of insinuates that the KP trade is the only one that we could have made (again, hindsight, I was fully on board with this move and on paper it seemed fantastic) but the reality is that we could have made that offer to a lot of teams for some high profile players at the time most likely and those teams would have been interested. I don't have names or anything available but it's just kind of disappointing when those trades don't work out super well because those packages with first round picks take like years off of a franchise's ability to make another splashy trade like that.
Having said that...we aren't that far away from having those assets reload at this point and have a chance to bring in another player who really does move KP to more of an x factor role. It wouldn't really be until the 2023 deadline but we will have plenty to offer again (20 mil in expirings as of today, bunch of rookie contract players and we'll be able to package two first round picks again). I foresee this front office operating much like we did in the early 2000's where first round picks are simply trade assets because the entire focus is to win now.
I also didn't realize that you were already responded to with like the exact same sentiment, my bad.