06-10-2021, 10:26 AM
(06-10-2021, 08:53 AM)mvossman Wrote: If KP and Maxi get back to their previous defensive levels after a healthy off season, that team starts looking very dangerous.
This is probably the one reasonable scenario I can think of where we mostly bring it back where I would not be pissed. The FO gets to save face by landing their "third star" and if KP still doesn't fit with the team, maybe you have raised his value for a trade.
I'm with you but again, I don't know if this team wants to gamble on the idea of KP getting back to his regular self. We spent an entire season saying that and it feels like we're going to do the same thing this offseason. I think there SHOULD be more concern about his trade value going down before it goes up, the longer we play the "let's give him some time and he could bounce back" and he doesn't bounce back the less we can sell the concept of upside in a trade.
Also, I know Maxi dealt with a lot this year but did his defense really look all that different from last year's series to this year? I know Kawhi is a bad matchup for him but it's not like he was moving much worse. Not saying he isn't a plus defender but I'm just saying it's two years in a row where he didn't do much to help us in the playoffs on either end. It's unfair because it's through the lens of 13 games of bad matchups for him but I was really turned off by the fact that later in the series he seemed hesitant to shoot again like last year. All that and combined with the fact that it seemed we already offered him for John Collins makes me think Maxi is the first thing the Mavs are offering in trades right now.