The Dallas Mavericks and Charlotte Bobcats have reached an agreement in principle on a new trade after last week's collapse of a three-way deal with the Oklahoma City Thunder, according to NBA front-office sources. This one, however, does not involve Bobcats guard Raymond Felton. Sources told ESPN.com on Friday that the Mavericks and Bobcats are close to completing a deal that would send Dallas center DeSagana Diop to Charlotte for guard Matt Carroll and center Ryan Hollins. Source: ESPN
NO GOD! NO GOD PLEASE NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Wow. Mark Cuban has yet again managed to mess up the Mavericks even more. Now we have Carroll, Wright, Howard, George, Green, Singleton and Terry (7 players playing the wing positions) and....1 real center. How do you downgrade from Felton to Matt Carroll? Seriously. Congratulations universe, you win.
Dallas must have another deal in place to settle for Carroll & Hollins. A package deal revolving around Stackhouse might be in play?
Yes Carroll can hit a shot, but what Dallas needs the most right now is someone that attacks the basket. Felton could have provided that. Instead, we bring in another jump shooter to a team filled with jump shooters. Right now we start Kidd and Wright. We bring in Terry at SG who plays a significant amount of minutes, and then we also bring in Barea at PG to let Kidd rest. Sometimes, Terry might even play PG and then have someone else play SG. Where does Matt Carroll fit in? Start him with Kidd? and then play him 20 minutes a game for 5mil? Why make a trade for the sake of making one? It almost feels as if Cuban made this trade just because they were discussing one before. He should have just said no.
Dirk Nowitzki for Larry Hughes and the right to Reinsdorf working a deal to get Cuban in as the Cubs owner.
Not liking this move. Dallas is thin up front and Diop, despite his offensive shortcomings, is a good defensive presence. Carroll is solely a guy who can hit open shots. He can't create his own shots - he's just a spot up shooter. He's also grossly overpaid making $5M for his 4PPG. Hollins is okay, but definitely not worth taking Matt Caroll's contract for. I doubt he's even NBA ready since he's averaging 10MPG on a lottery-bound Bobcats team.
We have enough shooters? Are you kidding? Name a true 3 point threat on the team that isnt Jason Terry or Dirk. Jason Kidd? Antoine Wright? JJ Barea? Deavan George?? Please. Carroll's deal is front-loaded so we are saving money and Hollins is an upgrade from Diop for a fraction of the cost. Who did you guys think we could get for a 2 pt, 4 reb, 1 block a game player with a ridiculous contract? Be happy he isnt on the team anymore.
carroll isnt much of a shooter either. hmmm how about a 4 ppg .267 3pt shooter with a ridiculous contract. and ryan hollins has 22 dnp's this year. on the center starved bobcats. hmm. garbage for rotting garbage imo.
Bringing in Carroll and creating an even bigger logjam at the wing position is only a small fraction of the reason why I am angry about this trade. The main thing is, we could have brought in Felton who would fill the void which resulted in the Kidd-Harris trade, and somehow Mark Cuban managed to downgrade from Felton to Carroll. I would not mind getting Carroll if our team did not already have an abundance of wing players. In addition to that, we gave away one of our two true centers, and now we're thin as Manute Bol up front.
I love how people are throwing out the 4ppg and .267 shooting this year instead of focusing on the fact that the guy, in every other year, put up 8-10 ppg shooting 40% from the 3 point line. He give us something we didn't have - a role player who can shoot the three ball with deadly efficiency. Diop was being used as a 7 foot body for 10 minutes per game, something that I'm pretty sure I could accomplish if I grew 10 inches. He clearly fell out of favor with Carlisle, just as Carroll didnt get minutes because Charlotte thought that Morrison and him were practically clones and they would rather develop the younger lottery pick. This trade doesn't seem as a bad as everyone is making it out to be
How did Hollins and Carrol do today? From the stats, it seems like they were both pretty bad, but I didn't watch the game (don't get many Dallas games here in Toronto).
Carroll barely played, Hollins had a Diop-esque stat line without that horrible sting of paying Diop 5.5 mil per year. I expect more out of Caroll once he learns the system but Hollins will probably have a bunch of nights with a few points and boards and a block or two.
