2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[Branduil]

Going back to Brogdon, as always... them hiring Rick could help us here, as we happen to have several players he obviously liked who would fit in well with them. THJ could give them a quality volume shooter, and Maxi would fit nicely with either one of their bigs, so they could either keep both and have Maxi as their big off the bench, or trade one and still have a starter. Losing Maxi and THJ but adding Brogdon should bring our cap space to about 19 million.

Even dumping WCS and Burke doesn't get you to quite enough for John Collins max money, but it's close. Ideally at this point you could work out a S&T. Earlier Powell+Brunson for Knox+#21 was floated, how about that deal but sending the New York assets to Atlanta? If you can also send JRich somewhere, you can get Collins and still have the MLE+BAE.

The topper would be to get someone like Dragic with the MLE, add a backup wing with the BAE, and find a decent 4th big somewhere for the minimum.

Luka / Dragic
Brogdon / Terry
DFS / BAE / Green
Collins / Bey
KP / WCS

Obviously the downside here is the Mavs would be forced to rely upon the sophomores a LOT more, but the starters are leagues ahead of last season, and maybe our picks will actually turn out good, who knows. At least when healthy, we should have 2 of Luka/Brogdon/Dragic out there at all times, plus one of KP/Collins.