Mavs off-season and draft 2023 thread

[SMC0007]

Its easy to be over the train wreck of a season right now, but if we take a guy with the 10th pick and he isn't playing in big games and big moments we are in a bad spot. I don't want to see Luka wore down in the 2nd half of a season while we flounder our way out of the playoffs again. If we swing, we can't miss. Idk what the best path forward is but the "let's take our time and be patient" approach isn't going to work for Luka. The kid has been ready to compete for a title for years and we keep stepping on our dick.

Trade it, keep it, idc just make good moves and improve where we really lack.

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[DevinHarriswillstart]

Originally Posted by SMC0007

Its easy to be over the train wreck of a season right now, but if we take a guy with the 10th pick and he isn't playing in big games and big moments we are in a bad spot. I don't want to see Luka wore down in the 2nd half of a season while we flounder our way out of the playoffs again. If we swing, we can't miss. Idk what the best path forward is but the "let's take our time and be patient" approach isn't going to work for Luka. The kid has been ready to compete for a title for years and we keep stepping on our dick.

Trade it, keep it, idc just make good moves and improve where we really lack.

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Exactly why trading more picks would be wackadoo.

And I just look at the roster as it it currently is. Powell and Wood are both FAs, so we basically don't even have a center.

TJD would not only start, but he'd be the best big we have but a good margin IMO.

So it's not that TJD is going to be some all nba player or anything....it's that our current roster is a ghost town of talent.

So you're either overpaying for unmotivated Ayton or Turner (Turner will likely cost all of our current assets IMO) or just draft someone with a valued pick we already have.

Trading more picks would be scorched earth at this point as our near future draft capital is basically non-existent.

[SMC0007]

Originally Posted by DevinHarriswillstart

Exactly why trading more picks would be wackadoo.

And I just look at the roster as it it currently is. Powell and Wood are both FAs, so we basically don't even have a center.

TJD would not only start, but he'd be the best big we have but a good margin IMO.

So it's not that TJD is going to be some all nba player or anything....it's that our current roster is a ghost town of talent.

So you're either overpaying for unmotivated Ayton or Turner (Turner will likely cost all of our current assets IMO) or just draft someone with a valued pick we already have.

Trading more picks would be scorched earth at this point as our near future draft capital is basically non-existent.

Yea. When you break down the roster plus the outgoing future picks, MBT has to be weighing that heavily. If we didn't owe so many future picks it wouldn't be near as big of a deal that we move #10 to fill a void with a proven quality big. Ayton is not proven quality big in my book. Turner is but an effective rookie is cheaper.