spanishninja wrote:bwgood77 wrote:King4Day wrote:
Couldn't have said it better.
Paul has one year left and then is basically a 15mil expiring we'll likely trade to a team that might be looking at trying to cut costs.
I think that's always been the plan (unless we were winning titles every year, or at least reaching the finals)
Regardless how the rest of this postseason goes, I pray we keep DA. He's frustrating sometimes but he's still developing which is exciting. He's so important to this team. Trade him and you may as well trade Booker as we're starting over. You aren't getting anyone to replace what he offers.
Yeah, I originally thought the Paul contract was too long until I read about the non guaranteed 3rd year and team option in 4th. He had a great year.
It was interesting....on a podcast I listened to today with Zach Lowe and JVG they mentioned how CP3 had to guard the screener on the screen and roll the most times he ever had this season in the last 4 games.
Like his 4 highest games of having to do that in the entire year are the last 4 games. Mavs probably saw all the talk of us attacking Luka every shot and them kind of laughing about it after in game 2, so they constantly attack CP3 all game every game for the next 4 game wearing him out, and he really has no effective backup (at least a guy you want to rely on in the WCSF)...so he can't rest. Not that he doesn't play D, but they are just wearing him out
JVG said he expects a big game 7 from him though. I don't know. He's been off...mainly with the turnovers. Almost as many as Book in the series.
Shooting less though even if he has been hitting 3s at a better rate than anyone. Seems he is not going to his midrange as much. He usually doesn't until the 4th though after getting people going and the last two games were blowouts so he didn't need to and he fouled out in game 4, so it was mainly game 3 that was weird. A lot of turnovers and didn't do too much offensively....that was the first game they started attacking him.
Dallas adjusted after we attacked Luka not allowing us to get the switch as much as possible so we probably need to do that if we can. Hopefully Monty realizes this.
I would include on your list Shamet's new contract kicking in this summer. Bad contract. If he can start nailing 4 3s a game or something and be an effective backup 3rd guard to handle the ball, both of which I think he is capable of (or at least nailing 3 3s a game in the high 30 percentages, ok).
We need to find a diamond in the rough on the UDFA market or something like we did with Payne based on last year's play.
It would also be nice if we could dump some salary and go for Tyus Jones or trade something for him but I don't think they'd want Payne (he is cheaper though and expiring).
They will probably try and keep him though...even though they have a Ja max and JJJ contract kicking in...they are still probably in a better contract situation than us.
yeah, shamet is categorized under #3. Aside from CamJo, I think we gotta reexamine everyone.
Cam Johnson is my biggest disappointment this off season. To think he was even considered as 6th man of the year is laughable. He is soft and rarely makes plays when it counts. I think his legacy rides on that last second he hit against the Knicks. He then was injured for the next 3 week or so.
We need him to be a factor on both ends. He is our biggest forward and he is over matched every night on the defensive end and for an offensive guy all he does is make threes. Yeah, he sometimes goes to the hoop but not near enough. He never rebounds and he normally is our 2nd largest player on the court. James Jones complained about rebounding all season. He has done nothing to fix it.
I would trade him for a legit PF if the opportunity was presented and I would not extend him this off season, period. We already have the other forward, the so-called DPOY, manned by a guy that only shows up once a week and cannot stay in front of Doncic. For gods sake I expected him to be able to at least slow that guy down. He has been a non factor for much of this series. He can start earning that extension he received on Sunday.
Fortunately, we have Crowder who is not afraid of the moment. We need Mikal and Johnson to Wake the fook up. If you do not see that, I have no idea what you are watching.
I expect that CP3 will have some kind of surgery this off season. He needs help, not complaints about being overpaid by the peanut gallery. Booker needs to act like a player that wants to be a first team all nba player.
I do wonder why Holiday has received no playing time from Monty and we have to watch Shamet run around like a chicken with its head cut off.
