Few nuggets:
The team’s primary offseason signings had been centers, but JaVale McGee, who team sources say had been prioritized by coach Jason Kidd, was benched eight games into the season.
JaVale McGee was Kidd's pick.
Maxi Kleber and McGee both showed age-related decline, although Dallas hopes that Kleber, 31, can bounce back with a full offseason to recover from midseason hamstring surgery.
I loved Maxi's performance in the PO, but failing to retain Brunson, Mavs should've kept their options open, that extension was a mistake, and one more piece of evidence for the short-sightedness of this FO.
Beyond that, Dallas could trade Hardaway — who the team explored moving in the past two seasons, team sources say — given his team-friendly deal that boosts his league-wide value.
The general tone of the article is that THJ is a positive value player, a sentiment that isn't shared on the trade board here.
If there’s any other glimmer of hope from the miserable season that was, it’s how clearly it exposed the team’s flaws, one team executive said in a late-season conversation. That another season, where the team had been luckier, might not have sparked such conviction in meaningful change.
“I saw this coming a long time ago,” one former team employee said, “but I didn’t expect it to be this bad.”
In general, a small controversy arised about Giannis comments of what constitutes as a failure, Mavs last season was an obvious failure, a massive one, from what it looks like, no one will pay the price for this failure.
