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The narrative around non-splashy moves is funny alot of the time. People tend to react with eyerolls and “does Derrick Jones Jr really make them better?” type responses.
After their offseason I literally said the Mavs were gonna miss the playoffs lol.
Last year Dallas made the Kyrie trade for all of its eing defense in a “edge of the abyss” type roster changing move… didn’t look good after the season.
Then… Dallas trades to seIect Dereck Lively. Dallas signs Derrick Jones Jr for the minimum… finds Dante Exum off the scrap heap… trades for Gafford from Wiz.
Reminds me of the Dubs finding OPJ off the heap, buying into GP2, talking Belli into the minimum and squeezing the last juice outta Iguodalas career. When you hit hit hit hit it becomes a sum greater than parts situation. Might seem like “what are those guys gonna do?” but those moves almost any team can make.
Honestly Dallas’ quality of outcome is better than GSWs then cuz we’re talking about a one good year v Mavs probably keeping all those dude to keep it going a few yrs.
Kinda gives me hope that 4 great smaller moves can turn us around faster as we do see the post Steph era coming at us. I think MDJ is actually the guy to do it too.
TLDR- Props to Dallas for making the other moves… that made the Kyrie move work (ditto Twolves and the Gobert move not bailing on it when it wasn’t instant success and following it up with reid conley naw etc) and took them from the fringe of the playoffs to legit contention.