Did Mavericks blow up their potential Chip winning roster?

[User9992]

Did Mavericks blow up their potential Chip winning roster?

Mavericks had a great and deep roster coming into this season up until trades and injuries destroyed their season:
- Luka Doncic (28.1 ppg) — Traded
- Kyrie Irving (24.7 ppg) — Injured
- Quentin Grimes (21.4 ppg) — Traded
- Klay Thompson (14.4 ppg)
- PJ Washington (14.3 ppg) — Injured
- Naji Marshall (12.7 ppg)
- Daniel Gafford (12.3 ppg) — Injured
- Dereck Lively (9.1 ppg) — Injured
- Spencer Dinwiddie (10.6 ppg)
- Dante Exum (9.1 ppg) — Injured
- Josh Hardy (8.0 ppg)
- Brandon Williams (7.2 ppg)
Et al.

[User9992]

The most shocking is Quentin Grimes' case

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[Blame Rasho]

No, they are built for this season and beyond.

[User9992]

No, they are built for this season and beyond.

IDK. They let Grimes walk away. Also a lot of expiring contracts coming for Mavs. Not sure most of them are staying with Mavs. They most likely will walk away.

[Mavrelous]

Yes they did, before Luka injury on Christmas day they were 19-10 despite other injuries and some tough one possesion losses, their starting lineup was +23 net rating.
People really don't appreciate the level of Nico's maglomania and the incompetence if his enablers...

[picc]

Yes.

[picc]

And for absolutely no reason.

Mindblowing.

[Handlez]

They could've won title this year.

Luka was back.

He would've been rested and healthy for playoffs.

Kyrie doesn't get hurt.

Absolute insanity.

[nbaguy1]

es el papa catholica?

[maverick_41]

Just one more day of grieving.
What is the purpose of existence of this franchise?..

What could be the reason to self destruct the team? Maybe the city didn't want to give the Mavs owners money for the new arena and they threatened to blow up the roster? Then the city declined once more and they destroyed the team as the act of revenge? Stupid but I more believable than the idea to compete without the top-2 player in the world.

[Lalouie]

this is a weird question

they blew it up when they traded luka

i mean,,,what have we been talking about for the past month anywho. but as you step and look at everything, not only just luka,
it becomes metaphysically mindboggling

[Edrees]

It's hard to say. If Kyrie still gets injured, then no, they had no shot at a title without him this year anyway. If he didn't get injured had they not traded Luka, then yes they did blow up a potential chip winning roster. But we will never know, though I will say the extra load and stress of carrying the team probably caused the Kyrie injury.

[OxAndFox]

Yes.

[OxAndFox]

It's hard to say. If Kyrie still gets injured, then no, they had no shot at a title without him. If he didn't get injured had they not traded Luka, then yes they did. But we will never know.

Kyrie doesn't get injured in the timeline of no Luka trade though. Well, we don't know, he may have quit the NBA and fled to Thailand to become a Buddhist monk for all we know.

[Statlanta]

At this point with all the injuries, pivoting away from Doncic seems less stupid. They were not going to win with all these injuries and you could make the argument the team made the Finals via luck like the 2023 Heat did.

[OxAndFox]

At this point with all the injuries, pivoting away from Doncic seems less stupid. They were not going to win with all these injuries and you could make the argument the team made the Finals via luck like the 2023 Heat did.

You can't actually believe all the injuries actually happen though? Like, that's just silly.

[Lalouie]

It's hard to say. If Kyrie still gets injured, then no, they had no shot at a title without him. If he didn't get injured had they not traded Luka, then yes they did. But we will never know.

Kyrie doesn't get injured in the timeline of no Luka trade though. Well, we don't know, he may have quit the NBA and fled to Thailand to become a Buddhist monk for all we know.

i seriously was thinking kyrie would do something like pack it up after luka left. but not thailand, more like become a forest ranger

[OxAndFox]

It's hard to say. If Kyrie still gets injured, then no, they had no shot at a title without him. If he didn't get injured had they not traded Luka, then yes they did. But we will never know.

Kyrie doesn't get injured in the timeline of no Luka trade though. Well, we don't know, he may have quit the NBA and fled to Thailand to become a Buddhist monk for all we know.

i seriously was thinking kyrie would do something like pack it up after luka left. but not thailand, more like become a forest ranger

Yeah, but instead I think Kyrie has gone well if they are trading away Luka, I'm trading USA for Australia in National Play. Think this was Kyrie's thought process all along though. Try and get on Team USA early and I think he thought he would stay there, and then there's always a spot on Team Australia if it doesn't work out.

[Papi_swav]

lol how do you f*** that up? idk how that Nico guy is still walking around with his head high smh

[junot111]

Obviously they blew it by trading Luka but realistically, I think they peaked last year and was unlikely to make the finals this year, let alone win it all