What Type Of Player Should The Mavs Pursue In Trade Talks? | The Get Right

What Type Of Player Should The Mavs Pursue In Trade Talks? | The Get Right

The players that you have are the players that you have and it is a better roster congratulations to Nico Harrison with what they’ve been able to do compared to a couple years ago when they went to the Western Conference Finals even um but it’s it’s been the effort

And the Buy in my goodness I’m not talking about that I’m not talking about that uh because David Rody is somebody that around these parts people don’t like you remember the last time David Ry went off against these Mavericks uh but no uh you know the effort is something

That has showed up the the ways in which they were getting in passing Lanes the active hands all those things and tonight not quite that but outside of that right this does maybe point to the idea that this team is not fully formed and trades are necessary we knew that

Was the case but maybe this is just a reminder so the question that I have for you Blake and for our listeners what kind of players should the Mavs Target in the trademark because everybody wants players for this team yeah what do we think he be I can’t talk what do we

Think is going to be beneficial cuz where you hear with me the night that we went through some of the you know we evaluated in a way I think so some of the way you know some of the things that or the players that we know yeah are

Going to be on a championship roster right what what players should be on the championship roster and it was a short list and I think that that then gives us a framework of okay what else do you want to put around those guys that you know are going to be the skeleton of

This team and then really be building and this trade the trade market situation in time is your first step towards that who should they be targeting yeah so or at least what kind of players yeah so the kind of players I think they should be targeting I don’t

It’s what they try to do in the off season it it’s that four it’s that if you want to use our favorite word are a combo forward or what yeah combo big combo big combo big um a guy that can play the forward that can stretch the

Floor not somebody that sits under the rim so not Dwight pal I love Dwight but not not someone like that and we thought Grant Williams was going to be that floor spacer that defensive General that guy that could you know pass when he needs to every once a while and in

Spades every once a while he shows spurts of it but he just hasn’t been a guy you been able to be reliable on which is why every time you go on Google Twitter listen to reporters the Mavs are in trade talks yeah now some some more

Rumor than others some more just kind of stirring the pot but in general I don’t think the Mavs are happy with the roster that they have currently fully formed there’s obviously some pizza they like but I don’t think it’s I don’t think it’s crazy to say they’re not too happy

With how Grant’s played overall and kind of where his conditioning has been throughout the season and you have guys like there been a lot of injuries so I I’m thinking that forward position they’re really trying to upgrade cuz tell me if I’m WR I think Derrick Jones Jr can be your three if

You get a compatiable four and when I say compatiable four I’m thinking Kyle kosman I’m thinking Pascal seak maybe OG I know he’s a little bit smaller well OG’s already been traded I don’t think I’m tripping I’m tripping I’m tripping but I hear you like OG anobi would

Absolutely be a type of player that fits what you’re trying to do because you don’t need someone and and I was looking into some of the more advanced analytics with Paso SE yakum I was like well it’s kind of hard to have that two star as

Another guy needs the ball but his usage rate is actually lower than Tim hardways which I know isn’t saying much Tim’s is at 24 seak is at 23 right now so he’s a guy that doesn’t need the ball a lot and I think could be that third complimentary above average star I don’t

Want to say like full-blown like Superstar but he’s like you know that B+ star type guy he would be the porzingis to us that third guy that can score the ball so it is not I don’t think it’s the easiest plug-and-play fix because he is um where he was obviously the leading

Score on the Raptors he’s their go-to guy so being the three how would he adapt because we don’t want to make him just a catch and shoot guy that shoots you know a couple threes a game and plays we want him to be part of the offense one of that bigger pieces as

Well as play defense well I also want to be challeng is I don’t want it to be sound confrontation but I kind of want to challenge that thought process that you’re putting up the idea that it’s just shooting threes I think the catch and shoot game is necessary and if you

Are lethal enough or at least credible enough you can bend the defense especially when you consider like the framework of what you have two of the by guys that is Bobby belt uh saluting us on his way out of the building thanks to Bobby again for joining us last segment

On the show but back to what I was saying like you mentioned or the two pieces that you know are going to be foundational to what you’re doing here two of the the obvious three Kyrie and Luca yeah and you know I mean hell uh on Sunday the game we’re talking about they

Can buy for 69 points they can do any they can do it any night out offensive output just offensive out put anybody and it’s not just offensive output but it’s also like offensive playmaking yep they are both playmaking hubs Luca you know exponentially so might be one of if

Not the best playmaking hubs in the league right now and so with that being the case you know the rest of your players are going to be good and what you’re going to do is in in order to alleviate the ways in which defenses can try and attack him or maybe make them

Pay for trying to focus on him having a high level maybe even Elite guy who can knock down catch and shoot even I mean there’s there’s guys that have made their careers off of that and obviously you still need the to play the defensive element of that where you’re not going

To be all that useful but just catch and shoot can be huge if you do that a high level and consistently at a high do you want to spend as much Capital as these teams are asking for a kozma sakam on a catch and shoot guy because that’s my

Thing it’s like yes I 100% agree with you but then once you do that you’re giving away Josh you’re giving away Hardy you’re giving away first round picks you’re giving away maybe Tim or Maxi ran one of those guys mix in to ma make the contracts so you’re not just

Giving away just a second round pick or whatever you’re giving away a good amount to get one of these sure both of those teams best players best score and now do you kind of demote him to I just need you to catch and shoot threes and

Play defense which is great I think we could find guys for cheaper to do that’s what I’m saying sure I hear what you’re saying and I think you you make a fair point I think also it’s one of the reasons why we did that exercise you talked about Josh Green you talked about

Jaden Hardy those are not guys that you’re absolutely bought in on being in the championship correct if you get a guy who you know is going to be in your Championship Dynamic particularly because they’re consistent and and great at knocking down threes and they are going to be a primary Defender mhm if

You get yourself a primary Defender yeah both of those guys or I don’t know if I’d say both those guys but both those guys are I I would make them available because you make yourself that much better we just started talking about how defense matters in this thing you have a

Primary Defender that you know on any given any given matchup no matter who it is we go provided that they’re in a certain range right obviously not you’re not it’s going to be hard for you to be like one to five right but no provided the other team’s best player is maybe

Like one to four or something and you go we’ve got a guy for him every given time that’s worth a lot in this league and I think that in that instance yeah and that feels kind of like what you’re looking for some someone that can be what Grant Williams was expected to be

At a high level and Grant Williams still has an opportunity to to transcend into that but as of right now he’s he’s got to show it and it’s got to be a high level showing and the my my process of thinking is when I think of the Oklahoma

City Thunder Dort definitely not the highest profile guy on the team doesn’t score the most points but like you just said that’s the guy we need you to guard go guard him lock him down most times of the night and can hit open threes as

Well so I don’t know if I want to spend that much capital on that don’t get me wrong I love Pascal seak on this team I really don’t care what you had to give up for him other than Kyrie Luca and Lively I think everyone’s Expendable to

Get pass that’s just my own personal opinion I wouldn’t there’s no one on the list I be like oh man well we got to give up Josh Green for Pascal the only thing is is his contract and does his contract skip you because he could be

Thought of as a rental he already said he kind of wants a test free absolutely absolutely the Pascal thing has to be that has to be a thought that goes through your mind because you’re not just getting them and guaranteed right right um and I guess I I was not viewing

This entirely from just the perspective of Pascal seak but no absolutely that’s going to be a thing and you have to have the ma as the Mavericks or any team that trades for him feel confident that you can recruit from within once you get him

In yeah and and or that you yeah you did it with Kai and you saw the Toronto Raptors try and do that with um with kawh Leonard yep and so it it’d be an interesting Prospect and I don’t even know that you have the capital to give

Toronto what they want that’s my other thing I’m like would other teams have to offer Indiana some of these other teams I’m like we don’t have that much off especially not until next off season I believe where our picks are finally done with the Knicks and then we finally have

Some draft picks to give up yeah you you’d have to convey your first round pick this year uh provided it’s not top 10 yeah for you to then open some things to trade if you have Luka Kai Derrick Jones Jr Lively at the five and then plugg in whatever four in your trade

Head is popping up I feel pretty confident of that five competing with any team in the west I I feel like at that point plug in Pasco plug in Kyle plug in Jeremy Grant I’m see the tough thing for me is like I’ve had so much time think of Kyle

Kosma in as like the caricature that we have built which is not super far from who he is as a dude who’s just out here getting cardio however like like you put him in the context of a winning basketball team and have him in a Divine defined role he’s a talented basketball

Player um I just have to get my mind back to that space it’s definitely tough with the the pink sweaters yeah it’s that but then it’s also the maybe inopportune or maybe not uh ill advised shooting at times is is there someone that’s on your mind whether they’re on the trade market or

Not is there someone in your mind that you think is just the best glue to what the maps are missing cuz I don’t know if it’s particularly just one thing three cuz then this also kind of backcourt depth as well and then secondary playmaking with all these injuries with

Exm being out now when luuka and Kyrie out the line we were just talking about it who else is going to S the offense Tim Hardy Josh yeah they do seem to be getting by you know doing the things where they have someone like Tim or you

Know Hardy being able to at least initiate the offense and then get it to Luke and let him do what he does right in those types of instances but yeah no I think that’s a great point when you talk about dep because of the injury risk that Kyrie has right we can’t

Ignore those things but I think again those end up being secondary to the the the big hole that you have in a way is that that for position that four or maybe even maybe even a three right you can maybe make this work if it’s if it’s

A particular three that has that level of range ability but I think yeah that four would definitely help because again you talk about the size that Derrick Lively has or the the length that he has he needs a little bit of help down low you know getting some of these uh

Rebounds and then if you want to go small at times you need a player that has that ability to be a rock as I mean you saw it in this game that we’re watching right now Grant Williams as a small ball five is getting you know

Dominated right now in a way and this is not a this is not an incredible Memphis Grizzlies team we we should not be losing by 15 and so that that that ends up being something that maybe it’s just because it’s front of mine it’s right in

Front of me that it’s looming large but it would be great if you could get a player like that and people bring up Tobias Harris Tobias Harris I always had like a I guess I found it funny perspective on him where Tobias Harris always struck me as a dude who’s like

Like if you need seven points I’ll get you 15 if you need 25 points I’ll get you 15 right like Tobias Harris feels like that guy and so that’s the thing that I have concern but he always fits in nicely to what a team is doing I just

I I wonder if if he gives you exactly what you’re looking for um not that he’s even available yeah but Jeremy Jeremy Grant I like Jeremy it’s just I’m trying to I’m trying to piece together in my head do I want a guy that can score the

Ball or do I want a guy that plays I want I’m prioritizing defense more we don’t really need more ball dudes that can put the ball in the bucket sure guys who can knock on open threes like Reggie said yes because the amount of open threes you get playing with Luka and

Kyrie is crazy yes um so yeah I I think we’ve settled like the the player that they that you would love to see a dude who primarily can be a primary Defender yep can knock down shots and hopefully has enough size to kind of be what what’s our what’s our favorite word of

The or phrase of the day combo big combo big someone that can kind of play that four maybe size up a little bit to play some small ball five in and the crazy thing is we thought we solved in the off okay maybe not we all but the front

Office at least thought they were coming up with a conclusion or thought there was some upside and I I bought into the idea because I saw Grant Williams with the boss of Celtic and was like he’s young if he just had a more chance he has more upside and I and that’s and

Maybe I’m just refusing to you know relent on something that I previously thought but it still feels like that upside is but he’s going to need to tap into it and try and get there uh and do it quickly because again I think the Mavs are starting to move towards a

Timetable where they want to contend you have you have two top 10 offensive players on your team arguably you have to the time Luca and Kyrie aren’t getting any younger that’s true you don’t want to just be like oh we wasted a year whatever like you see the Mavs

Are a little bit more aggressive than I thought they’ be I thought they’d wait till next season looks like they may may I say be Mak they’re in the trade market at least that’s for sure they’re definitely shopping

The Mavs are off to a solid start but their roster could definitely use some help. But what kind of players would fit in with this team? Reg & Blake discuss the types of players the Mavs should pursue at this year’s NBA trade deadline.

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