Mavericks and Warriors Switching Approaches

a year, okay, so he's fresh. He hasn't played since the New York Knicks, and we're gonna like give him his flowers because he put up what did he put up? Kemba Walker, Let's look it up really fast stats if I don't even need to look up stats because he only has one stat. He hasn't played since forty two minutes thirty two points because Luca didn't play. And I tell you what, the Dallas Mavericks without Luca are unwatchable.

They are unwatchable. So Kemba getting forty thirty what is it, thirty two points or forty thirty two points in forty two minutes goes twelve for twenty five and four for thirteen for three. Oh gross, that just tells you everything you need to know about what you have in Kemba Walker. He did that with like he's played like no minutes since since December of last year. Anyway, Now the MAVs finally see it my way. Now the MAVs finally see

what we've been saying. According to Tim Cato, who just dropped this huge article today on The Athletic, the realization is dawned on the MAVs that they have to figure it out. They have to trade some folks. Who's tradable, who's tradable on this team? Everyone except for three players is tradable. Everyone's on the trade block like it's a fantasy football team right before the deadline, except for, of course Luca and two others. Who do you think those

players are? So it's Josh Green and check's notes Spencer Dinwoodie back to Josh Green. That is a high praise for a guy, for the fact that Josh Green is untradable, untradable for any price. This is a guy averaging seven two and one. That's high praise. That is some some wow type moves, some behavior that I do not understand. But Josh Green is improving and he's the kind of player that the league is always looking for, right, Like a guy who's very versatile, a guy that can kind

of fit into every scheme. He's not only a three point shooter who can play defense, but he's a guy that can put the ball on the floor. He can get defenders to collapse on him and pass out as well. And this is Green's only his third year, so it's gonna probably be fascinating to see what kind of extension that the MAVs offer him. Probably won't offer him anything, and he'll leave for nothing because that's what the MAVs do. But is he the long term answer in Dallas for Luca?

Will signing him in any way make Luca happy? In signing him? Will it in any way affect Luca at all? I'd like to know. And what does it say that you only have two players besides Luca that are technically untradable? And are they untradable? Though? Like, if I gave you a first round pick for Spencer Dinwiddie, would you do it? You would? You would? Wouldn't you If I gave you a first round pick and someone who matched Josh Green's salary for Josh Green, you would do it wouldn't you,

You would like that's bullshit. The only guy that's untradable really is Luca. This is the worst roster of any NBA team that I have seen that's like a competitive team. I think that the Orlando Magic roster is better than the Dallas Mavericks roster. Let me say that again. I think the Orlando Magics roster is better than the Dallas Mavericks roster. From one to fifteen, the Orlando Magic have a better team then the Dallas Mavericks, a team that

went to the Western Conference files last year. That is sad, that is hopeless. The rest of the roster, Christian Wood, Dori Infini, smith Y, Veil McGee, Tim Hardaway Junior. You trade one, trade all but for the love of christ I don't know, figure out a way to get Luca some sort of help, because if you don't, he is gone. There will be nothing that you can do. He will press.

If you've seen the way that he yells at referees when he doesn't like a call, what do you think he's going to do when he doesn't like the future of the franchise and realizes that you are doing absolutely zero to help him. Get to a title, get prepared for Luca to start making some serious, ugly, gross, very whiny, very annoying trade demands. Lost in the shuffle, that Steph curries out for a month with a laborum injury or a shoulder separation is kind of the fact that the

dynasty is sort of on shaky ground right now. In fact, one of the major architects of the Golden State dynasty and the current GM of the Warriors, Bob Myers, is currently working on an expiring deal right now, and according to WOJ, Bob Myers two time executive year has not been renewed, and Golden State ownership and Myers have had conversations about a new contract, but those talks currently appear to be on a hiatus row. I don't know if

that's good. I don't think that's good anytime contract talks have stalled, which is another nice word, or you know, that's what hiatus means. That's a nice way of saying stalled contract talks hiatus. That's not good, and it is fascinating to me. It's fascinating to me because that Draymond punch really sort of reverberated and changed everything, Like the team all year has been in turmoil. The chemistry, the vibes are bad. Then you got paying You're paying Jordan Poole,

you paid him, you paid Wiggins. Okay, you got to figure out what to do with Clay. Then you have Clay's extended cold streak, Clay getting emo in the mentions. You've got Wiseman getting demoted to the G League. Then you've got Pool's erratic play off the bench. Then he plays as a starter and plays well, but he only plays well when either Steph or Clay don't start. And now Steph Curry has a separated shoulder and is out for them a month. Okay, so what does that all mean?

I mean, it's tough to be gold blooded. First off, it's tough right now to be a Warriors fan. It's very cold on these streets right now. We keep the faith, but my faith is sort of shaking a little bit. And now Bob Myers is working and he's on an expiring and they can't get a deal done for a guy who's brought them four rings and like seven finals

his six finals appearances. What Now you've got Joe lakeup having to talk to ESPN about it and He's like, yeah, we love Bob, We really hope he's here a long time, while he simultaneously does not lock up Bob for the future. And So, to me, what is this about. It's about a half a billion dollars half a billion dollars that the Warriors face next year in payroll and luxury tax combined for a team that is currently on the cusp of not making the play in tournament. Is that acceptable?

Do you think Joe lakeb wants to do that? Do you think Bob Myers wants to do that? No, which is why Connor Liturno of the SF Chronicle dropped the bombshell today. He said, the Warriors are considering blowing up the bridge. Ah, what does that mean? Blowing up the bridge? Yes, the two timeline approach may be getting Mixedturno said this more than a third of the way through the season.

The raining champions remain hobbled by an inconsistent bench as they enter Sunday's game at Toronto with the league's twentieth ranked defense and a two and fourteen road record. Most concerning for the Warriors, though, is the fact that they sit below five hundred despite Curry having played almost every game and posting MVP caliber numbers, and now that Steph is out for an indefinite period a month is actually optimistic. The Warriors are staring at a hard number. The number

is forty eight. That's the amount of wins that they personally believe it will take to get into the play in tournament, not the playoffs, the play in game. Due to their two and fourteen road record, they would need to win two thirds of their remaining games to make that number. There's only one team in the NBA that's doing that right now, and that's the Grizzlies. They're the number one team in the West right now. The Warriors, folks,

are not the Grizzlies at this point. I hate to say it as a longtime Dubs fan, but right now this team wins about thirty three percent without Curry on the floor. A month long stretch of six and twelve without him, the season is sink. Is sunk, sink sunk, whatever you want to say. And it is not like they can add any immediate help without making it financially impossible. Next year, Wiseman is gonna cost them ninety million in salary in luxury tax penalties alone. If they resign him.

And the wild thing is this is crazy, This is actually getting lost in the shuffle. Did you know that they tried to trade Wiseman just recently? They try to trade him, Yeah, under the radar. They're trying to do it in the shadows of the night, even though they say they're building around him, but they are trying to in the shadows of the night, trade Wiseman to the San Antonio Spurs for Yakub Pearl. And you know what the San Antonio Spurs said, thanks, put no fucking thanks.

You're gonna need in order for you to get Yakub Pearl, You're gonna need to give us some draft capital in order to make that work. What imagine if you're a team offering the number two overall pick in the draft who's only twenty one years old for a twenty seven year old Austrian who's averaged twenty minutes a game and seven and a half points per game his entire career, and that team says, no, we don't want that number two overall pick unless you sweeten the deal with more

draft picks. What are you serious? And you know you know me, I don't like Wiseman. I never have. I've been trying to be positive on him. I'm trying to find things to like about him. I'm trying to listen to the folks who are deep in the weeds about him. But he doesn't know basketball. He knows nothing about basketball. And as a yoga person would say, he has no mind body connection, you know what I mean. His brain can't tell his body what to do and it do

it right away. There's some clunkiness there. So he's rapidly playing his way into being probably one of the youngest, most highly drafted negative assets in the league. Wiseman. That is the problem. You have a bunch of young guys that you drafted pretty high who are now possibly negative assets. The guys the Warriors planned on building around. None of them are panning out. Not to say they're not gonna

ever be good. Like Kaming guy, think he will be good someday, but some experts think coming and Moody might be three years away from being a starter caliber player. Then at that point Curry is just on the on the backs on the front side of forty. He'll be thirty eight years old. The young Warriors, they're not gonna do anything. It's just Pool. Pool's the only guy who's gonna be able to help the Warriors on their title run.

And now that that luxury tax bill is coming due and Joe lacub isn't gonna pay to lose and be in the playing tournament, the question is this, how can you win another chip with the Warriors Big three? Can you? Can you do that? Because if you can cannot do that, it might be time for you to think about finding some new people to be called the Big three instead of Draymond and Clay. I think Clay will probably take as little money as you need him to because he's

been stealing while he's been injured. I don't mean stealing, but you know what I mean. And Draymond, he'll probably end up picking up his player option. But if it all comes down to it, you might need to trade Draymond. You might need to trade Clay. And this is what Bob Meyer said about why he had his deal. Hasn't been done. My entire focus is on the season and the team. Hmm. Maybe Bob Myers doesn't want to be

in Golden State anymore. Maybe the time has come for him to put together a new roster because he's had a great run and you don't want to end up being Washington Wizards Michael Jordan. By the time you start looking for a new job, you need to go out on top. Maybe he thinks, I don't like what I see with these chuckleheads. I don't like the kaminga. The very first second that the offseason hit, he took the trophy to like Africa and missed team workouts when he

was specifically told not to do that. If you aren't already stressed, if we Warrior fans are not stressed enough, keep this in mind. No team has ever won the championship and been under five hundred on the road this century. Major changes coming for our dubs, and if it doesn't happen this season, guarantee you put my bleeding, beating heart on it, it will happen this offseason. And that offseason might not include the architect of it all, Bob Myerst