Ex Mavs in Playoffs

[G-Man]

Since our team's season is over, I'm enjoying watching so many former Mavs still playing. Two of our former centers are defending their title in Oakland. Then there's Corey Brewer, who's heroics against Portland in 2011 opened the door to the Mavs championship. He's facing off against Jae Crowder, starting for Utah. It seems like every game I watch has former Mavs playing crucial roles.

Yet for all their individual roles on good teams, I don't find myself wishing we still had any of those guys. I'm just as happy with Finney Smith as I would be with Aminu or Crowder...they all suck shooting 3's, and Finney-Smith defends as well as any of them for less $$$. JaValle McGee has some good minutes at Golden State, but he sure didn't deliver here. And how about Larkin, with 4 turnovers in one quarter the other night?

So, are you seeing any former Mavs who you think would have made a real difference if we had kept them? Do you see major mistakes the brain trust made to let anyone worth keeping slip away? To me, besides nut case Rondo, they are all role players, and that is not our problem. We need a couple of guys who can score. We may have missed some by frittering away draft picks, but I'm just not finding myself thinking "if we'd only kept..." Are you?