The discussion is permeating the Dallas Mavericks ecosphere.
Should the Mavericks tank or continue to try and make the playoffs?
There is quite a bit of people on both sides of the coin. And
there are pros and cons to each side. So what should they do?
As a believer in using pros and cons to help you make
decisions maybe we should explore those. Or maybe we should let the proponents
of each side make their own arguments.
Okay they can on their own platforms. lol
Obviously tanking is to get better draft picks. Keep Kyrie and
AD sidelined, let them rest up for next year along with a more experienced
Cooper Flagg and hopefully a high draft pick and that does look promising.
Unfortunately there is no guarantee with draft picks. And I
don’t think you can rest Anthony Davis enough to ever completely see a healthy
AD for a full season. And I am not picking on him specifically. It just seems
big men in general struggle with injuries. Not all of course, yet quite a few.
AD just seems to have more than his fair share. His latest hand injury is just
strange.
Anyway do we rest him up so his hand is good for next year?
And do we rest Kyrie so he can truly be one hundred percent? Yet this adds
another year of age to both of them. How rusty is Kyrie with being out for well
over a year? So are there more cons to
tanking than pros?
Or what if we try this year? Cooper Flagg gets even more
experience in a playoff push that last month of the year with AD and Kyrie. And
who knows? Like I mentioned and I am not a fan of rooting for injuries, but
like AD, Chet for OKC and Victor for the Spurs are big men that might face
injuries themselves. Look at Giannis this past week. He will be out for 6 weeks
more or less. Should the Bucks rest him? So what does the West look like end of
March. A healthy Kyrie and a functional AD make the Mavericks an interesting possibility.
The LA Clippers are on a major run. If the playoffs started right now, they would
be the team no one would want to face. Maybe at the beginning of April the Mavs
could be that team.
Yet if we bring back Kyrie to early or push him too hard
what happens? And will AD’s hand be healed or will he be playing hampered? Is
it worth chancing these two again?
And what about the other players involved? I am not sure
what happened, but what happened with Dlo? I actually had hope he might be at
least a contributor throughout the year and definitely not what is going on
with him now. I cannot figure out why he dropped off like on a cliff on this
team. Maybe his couple of good years were just the perfect storm for him and he
just isn’t a player that can adapt to his surroundings. Who knows, but
definitely disappointing.
Klay Thompson quite frankly is where we need him to be. I
hope he gets the opportunity for us to stay competitive and he has a good rest
of the year. He would definitely fit as a successful 6th man scoring
threat in a playoff run. Trade deadline
talk is irking me since I would like to see him stay.
I am not sure what is going on with Daniel Gafford, but
would definitely like to see him healthy and involved.
And for me the reason I hope we do not tank though is I
think it would be an insult to Naji Marshall, Max Christie and PJ Washington Jr
for us to tank. I mean a serious insult. These three players are not role
players. They are players on a competitive team that make a difference in
winning and losing. All of them are valuable and I don’t want them to lose
their attitude and grit in a tanking season and affect their attitudes next year.
We need to keep them long term because they are the types of players that shape
teams and make the impactful difference.
Also Dwight Powell is much more than a stopgap these past
few games. He is always overmatched, yet over matches in attitude and effort.
He also deserves to play competitive basketball even if he is sitting on a bench
for most of the game. He epitomizes what it means to have a winning attitude.
Could Caleb Martin actually come around like the past few
games?
Of course the heartbreak is Dereck Lively II being out for
the year
And then there is Brandon Williams, Ryan Nembhard and Moussa
Cisse. Why waste what they are doing?
We have the players to compete so I am of the opinion we
should.
Go Mavs
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