2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[mvossman]

I actually see Oubre as a potential starter. Even with all of his issues he can still put up buckets. The one constant theme in his career is that he's never been surrounded by elite talent (also despite putting up numbers his team losing). The closest he's ever been was GSW but that's been the Warriors weakest team since 2011.

Say the Mavs pull off the unthinkable and get Conley+Collins. Oubre would be slotting next to Luka/Conley/Collins/KP. 1 All world player and 3 fringe all-star level guys. That's a boatload of talent. I can see him shining in a situation like that where he's the 5th option. DFS could be a super sub for any one 1 those guys too if defense is needed. Mavs could try and sign some vet min ring chasers on value contracts like Dragic/Boban/Batum and you're rocking with

Luka/Dragic
Conley/JGreen
Oubre/Batum
Collins/DFS
KP/Powell/Boban

That's a lethal team.

That would be a lethal team.  But unless I am missing something, you have over 60 mil of salary coming in with 10 going out.  That means you are nearly 20 mil over the cap.  Also, guys like Dragic and Batum are probably getting close to MLE money and you don't have one of those (let alone two).

Its hard to see how you could land both Collins and Conley.  They are at least 50 mil coming in.  You are sending out Maxi and maybe Brunson to get Collins.  You would still need to dump at least 6 mil.  Maybe you could dump Powell for cheap?

If you can get Atlanta to take JRich/Maxi/Brunson for Collins and then do a three team deal with THJ for Conley you could do it (but getting both to happen seems slim).  In that case you would have the MLE, which is good because you traded away your bench.  That would give you a starting lineup of KP/Collins/DFS/Luka/Conley and a bench of Powell/Green/Burke and some exceptions.