Pointguard01 wrote:Gordon doesn't make sense for what it would take for us to pry him away. I like him, but dont love him, and it would take near Max money to get him out of Orlando. He hasn't proven to be an elite player but he's make progress enough for me to consider him if it wasn't for the RFA status.
Julius Randle is still someone I'm not super high on. If Dallas could get him for 14-million a year, then I'd do that. I don't want to overpay for players who will most likely be role players and not apart of your big-3. We shouldn't be committing to anyone long-term until we have 3 high quality players (DSJ, this year's 1st rounder + someone else). Investing anything more than that might hurt us in the long-run. The same goes for Rodney Hood and Justin Nurkic. Of those, I do like Randle and Hood, not a fan of Nurkic.
Dallas' best strategy would be to sit back, let the other teams spend money and then take advantage of getting players on good/short contracts. No need to overpay early when very few teams have money to spend (over the 8-million MLE). If Dallas can be patient, I think we could get some solid young platers to put around DSJ + this year's 1st rounder.
That makes pretty good sense.
I think our best bet is to:
1. Draft a potential superstar (Doncic, Ayton, Porter or maybe Bagley)
2. Strictly develop young players over the next 2 seasons.
3. Hopefully draft that 3rd superstar caliber player in 2019
4. Trade Barnes and/or Matthews for picks and young budding stars in 2019.
5. Draft fairly high again in 2020 for a strong role player.
6. Lure decent veteran FAs to fill voids in 2020 off-season.
7. Compete for POs in 2020-2021 season.
I honestly think Cuban and Donnie will try hard to compete too early which imo will put us in that perpetual mediocre position like Portland, Utah and Memphis.