2019-20 Around the NBA: Archived

[StepBackJay]

Wondering aloud if we should have kept Harry Barnes and extended him. Mavs basically gave away an asset for nothing and he would actually fit pretty good in this lineup.

You're remember only the good, like with an ex-gf, I think.

I don't hate the player, because he's much better than people think, but don't forget these things:

• ball stopper whose efficiency doesn't really justify a high volume
  
• not a difference maker defensively
  
• not a difference maker on the glass
  
• can't shoot with range well enough to positively impact offensive spacing for others
  
• (maybe most importantly) agreed to come here because the opportunity was to be the focal point of an offense. Tough to be in that situation and then instantly shift to "sure, yeah. I'll just go stand in the corner and let that 20 year old do his thing"...on the same team. I think he was in Luka's way a bit. 
  

I just wonder in an alternate reality could they have just let Harry decide whether or not he wanted to opt-in in 2019 (maybe no extension) and they either try him out for 1 yr in this new role or they get cap space to sign someone else (which we didn't use anyway). Clearly on a 1 yr deal he would have been better than Jackson. In retrospect knowing that we were going to miss out on big FAs anyway I would have rather had that outcome.