Dallas trades Devin Haris Maurice Ager DeSagana Diop Keith Van Horn Trenton Hassell $3 million dollars 1st round pick in 2008 & 2010 Dallas Receives Jason Kidd Antoine Wright Malik Allen Dallas waives Nick Fazekas What are your projected lineups PG: Jason Kidd | Jose Juan Barea SG: Jason Terry | Eddie Jones | Antoine Wright SF: Josh Howard | Jerry Stackhouse | Devean George PF: Dirk Nowitzki | Juwan Howard | Malik Allen C: Erick Dampier | Brandon Bass This leaves Dallas quite thin at the frontcourt, a proper backup center is needed and wopuld allow Bass to play his natural position at the one. A long defensive player to handle the Gasols and Stoudemires
I'm picking the Mavs to come out of the West IF Kidd was dogging it with the Nets. Kidd has never played with a big as good as Dirk, I don't care if his D isn't as good as it was, Kidd with Dirk makes too much sense. Last year the Mavs lost in the playoffs because they couldn't get anything going on offense, Kidd pretty much solves that.
Kidd can surprise people with how big an impact he can be on a team. Him going to Dallas should be causing more buzz than Shaq going to the Suns, but I'm not hearing much. I agree with GM3, Kidd will put the Mavs up in the West. I can imagine his assists average going up since there are plenty of Mavs that could shoot the jumper.
I don't know. Kidd's style of play doesn't really suit the Mavericks IMO. In Harris, we lost our only guy who slashes and finishes. Josh Howard does that but not as well, and now we only have one wing who can finish. Jason Terry isn't a finisher, and Dirk likes to take the jumpshot even on a fast break. We also lose Diop, and now our frontcourt depth is poop. But before I condemn our championship hopes, I'll watch a few games and see how things go
I'm not buying this until I see some results on the court. I still don't think it was that great of a trade for the Mavs, I honestly think a lot of people out there are actually overrating this. With Kidd, sure, you get that veteran leadership that you lack and you get someone to take pressure off Dirk (who clearly sucks in the clutch). However, if there's one achilles heel on this team, it's going to be interior defense. The frontcourt is beyond thin. The only center you have is Damp, so if he gets hurt or in foul trouble, you're doomed. Howard and Bass are each too small to play there for long minutes and Dirk is soft and doesn't know what defense means. I think you guys are best suited to go back to the up and down style of the Nellie days personally. You have the personnel to run it, too bad you don't have the coach who's comfortable doing it. Beyond that, I don't think this team is good enough to beat the Lakers, with or without Bynum. They're too deep and too big for the Mavs to handle.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Moo2K4 @ Feb 20 2008, 04:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I'm not buying this until I see some results on the court. I still don't think it was that great of a trade for the Mavs, I honestly think a lot of people out there are actually overrating this. With Kidd, sure, you get that veteran leadership that you lack and you get someone to take pressure off Dirk (who clearly sucks in the clutch). However, if there's one achilles heel on this team, it's going to be interior defense. The frontcourt is beyond thin. The only center you have is Damp, so if he gets hurt or in foul trouble, you're doomed. Howard and Bass are each too small to play there for long minutes and Dirk is soft and doesn't know what defense means. I think you guys are best suited to go back to the up and down style of the Nellie days personally. You have the personnel to run it, too bad you don't have the coach who's comfortable doing it. Beyond that, I don't think this team is good enough to beat the Lakers, with or without Bynum. They're too deep and too big for the Mavs to handle.</div> It's not overrated. It's Jason Kidd. Harris and Diop wouldn't have put the Mavs over the hump, not now. not in 5 years. But you have a point with the Mavs' front court on it being thin. But it will do. Its a move to win in the next 2 or maybe 3 years. Its an opportunity that has to be taken. Better to have a shot on a short term basis rather than being just contenders in the next 5 or so years without a legitmate shot of winning it all.
