Speaker 1: He's keeping the same core doesn't always really work, no
Speaker 1: matter how successful you were in prior years, because other
Speaker 1: teams get better, other teams make moves, and you get worse.
Speaker 1: So the big question now is like, what do you
Speaker 1: do next? What does Mark Cuban do Jalen Brunson. I've
Speaker 1: been doing a little mass school crunching the numbers today, crunching,
Speaker 1: doing some serious crunching, and lots of speculation about what
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson is gonna do. Like we said, he had
Speaker 1: a coming out party. He's gonna get paid, He's gonna
Speaker 1: get the bag, all the money, gonna get probably somewhere
Speaker 1: between twenty twenty five million dollars a year averaging sixteen
Speaker 1: to five and four single handedly at some points in
Speaker 1: times without Luca in that Utah series, getting them to
Speaker 1: win games that Let's be honest, if it wasn't for him,
Speaker 1: they probably would have lost the Jazz in the first round.
Speaker 2: We wouldn't even be having this conversation.
Speaker 1: Now, he's a free agent, a lot of speculation about
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen, what he's gonna do next. Right, interesting
Speaker 1: comment coming from Mark Cuban. He said we could he
Speaker 1: Jalen more than anybody, and I think he wants to
Speaker 1: stay here and that's what's important. The issue, though, is
Speaker 1: what's more important, which is the lack of cap space
Speaker 1: that this team has. And this is where the number
Speaker 1: of crunching comes involved.
Speaker 2: Twofold issue.
Speaker 1: Brunson says he wants to be a starter, okay, and
Speaker 1: right now he is a starter, But Dallas also traded
Speaker 1: for Spencer Dimwiddie. Spencer did when he's making a lot
Speaker 1: of money as well. Can't have them all on the
Speaker 1: floor at the same time, Folks, listen, should Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: be a starter for the Dallas Maveris when he's like
Speaker 1: six feet t he's like six feet I don't know.
Speaker 1: Spencer Dinwiddy kind of makes Jalen Brunson a redundant asset.
Speaker 1: And you got rid of Christaps Porzingis, which you needed
Speaker 1: off the books regardless, right, Not sure Jalen Brunson is
Speaker 1: interested in a secondary role playing second fiddle to Spencer Dimwiddie.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure that Spencer Dimmidie's Dimwitty's that worse
Speaker 1: than Jalen Brunson. That man was in stint offense against
Speaker 1: the Warriors last night, he was the only one to
Speaker 1: cold score, and Jalen Brunson's minutes have nearly doubled since
Speaker 1: the bubble, right around thirty five minutes per game. But
Speaker 1: how do they all three function together? Do they all
Speaker 1: three function together?
Speaker 2: That doesn't even include the fact that.
Speaker 1: Luca also needs help, So like, how does Dallas keep
Speaker 1: Brunson and get more help? How do they keep Brunson
Speaker 1: and not get any help and get anywhere closer to
Speaker 1: where they were? Any closer to the finals than they
Speaker 1: were this year? Especially when the Clippers are getting better,
Speaker 1: the Pelicans are getting better, the Nuggets are getting healthy.
Speaker 1: Like you've got, you know, obstacle after obstacle. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's what you want to do.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 1: Is the trio of Luca, Dinwiddie and Brunson good enough
Speaker 1: to get past the Warriors? No? Althy Grizzlies, no or
Speaker 1: revamped Sun's probably not?
Speaker 2: So what up? What's what are you saying?
Speaker 1: Mark Cuban Jalen future looking twenty five twenty to twenty
Speaker 1: five million a year with two years left on Dinwoody's
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars a year deal.
Speaker 2: That's somewhere like forty forty five million dollars a year
Speaker 2: for those two guards.
Speaker 1: If you resign Brunson, add in Tim Hardaway's twenty million
Speaker 1: dollar deal, Burton's at sixteen million, starting to get the feeling.
Speaker 1: Finny Smith at twelve million means the MAVs, without doing
Speaker 1: a thing, already sixty million dollars over the cap. That
Speaker 1: is a lot of money, and that is not including
Speaker 1: Brunson's money. Signing Brunson could mean sixty million dollars a
Speaker 1: year in tax, in tax, not including his salary. When
Speaker 1: calculating how much the Mavericks need to pay to keep
Speaker 1: them as signing that they assuming they only sign up
Speaker 1: for twenty million, listen, don't believe me. You can go ahead,
Speaker 1: Google Luxury tax calculator. Put one hundred and seventy one
Speaker 1: million dollars in for salary, which is one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty one which is where they are now, plus twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars with Jalen Brunson, and that is eighty million
Speaker 1: dollars in tax plus salary that you now have to pay.
Speaker 1: Is Jalen Brunson worth eighty million dollars a year? That
Speaker 1: is some crazy Kelly Ubre like honestly, that's what That's
Speaker 1: what Golden State did last year with Kelly Ubre. Where'd
Speaker 1: that get them the play in tournament?
Speaker 2: So what do you do?
Speaker 1: You gotta get rid of Tim Hardaway. He makes a million,
Speaker 1: like millions and millions of too many dollars.
Speaker 2: He's injured.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what you do with him. Luca
Speaker 1: needs more help. The MAVs aren't even being a slightly
Speaker 1: quoy about needing a rim protector who could actually play
Speaker 1: defense on the wing and not have to play Maxie
Speaker 1: Clay bat five. They got their asses handed to them
Speaker 1: by Kevin Looney, and Kevon Looney is like a top
Speaker 1: thirty center in the NBA. So, folks, I don't mean
Speaker 1: to sell in the alarms, but things are. For a
Speaker 1: team that just went to the Western Conference finals, you're
Speaker 1: in a pickle here. Rudy Gobert is being floated out.
Speaker 2: That would be interesting.
Speaker 1: I have some trade ideas in terms of how they
Speaker 1: get that done, but none of them include keeping Jalen Brunson.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what though Mark Cuban is saying,
Speaker 1: he's saying he's a liar.
Speaker 2: He's a liar. He likes Jalen Brunson, but he's not
Speaker 2: gonna pay he he's on short take.
Speaker 1: You think he's keeping Jalen Brunson for eighty million dollars. No,
Speaker 1: Brunson is great. I really like him. I think he's
Speaker 1: a good point guard. I think he's a good starting
Speaker 1: point guard, one of.
Speaker 2: The best table setters in the league.
Speaker 1: But I do not see him being paired with Luca
Speaker 1: and this team going anywhere. Not because they don't want him,
Speaker 1: not because they don't need him to some degree, but
Speaker 1: because they cannot afford him. They need to make more changes,
Speaker 1: not just keep this thing out and roll it all back.
Speaker 1: Where does he ends up end up? I don't know,
Speaker 1: Probably maybe the Knicks. He's an interesting two way guy.
Speaker 1: He works hard, he can shoot, he can set the table,
Speaker 1: he can play, make take the ball out of Julius
Speaker 1: Randall's hand. Oh, which, God knows, we need that Kyrie.
Speaker 1: If he bolts, looks like the Nets will be in
Speaker 1: need of a point guard. That would be a nice,
Speaker 1: little spicy move. Who knows, Maybe Kyrie for Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: and maybe another piece to make that math work, make
Speaker 1: the math math.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe some people think Brunson could end up as
Speaker 1: a Piston with a sign in trade with Jeremy Grant,
Speaker 1: which would be very interesting, Like a little trade Jeremy
Speaker 1: Grant for Jalen Brunson. Detroit gets better Matt MAVs get
Speaker 1: their rim protector.
Speaker 2: And the question is if the Mavericks.
Speaker 1: Do move on from Brunson, which they will, how do
Speaker 1: they construct a championship team Because anything less than a
Speaker 1: finals appearance now feels like an l and Luca has
Speaker 1: already gotten a taste of winning now and he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 2: Step back, and we know he needs to step.
Speaker 1: Forward and then forward some more on a tread will
Speaker 1: in order for him to win some more meaningful games.
Speaker 2: At the end of late game scenarios.
Speaker 1: Yep, step forward on the treadmill, step back from the Luca,
Speaker 1: step away from Slovenia, which I've looked at on Google
Speaker 1: map Google images now looks amazing. Maybe bring a nutritionist
Speaker 1: with you when you go. Speculation now is if the
Speaker 1: MAVs are looking at zach Lavine Jeremy Grant.
Speaker 2: Like I said, zach Lavine would be terrible.
Speaker 1: I think Bradley Beal might be a nice option out
Speaker 1: of the two I think Grant is probably the better play.
Speaker 1: Like I said, lots of speculation about Rudy Gobert that
Speaker 1: would certainly solve some defensive issues.
Speaker 2: Miles Turner has been linked to the MAVs man.
Speaker 1: I don't know about Miles Turner and his health, though
Speaker 1: both would make Maxi Klayberg go by Bible.
Speaker 2: Maybe he plays four man.
Speaker 1: Regardless, they can't keep using Luca as much as they
Speaker 1: have for two straight years. Luca's usage rate is thirty
Speaker 1: seven percent, which is number one in the league over
Speaker 1: Joel m Beid. The number went up to forty percent
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. He cannot keep it up if the
Speaker 1: man like.
Speaker 2: Look at him.
Speaker 1: He looked exhausted in that first half that game, and
Speaker 1: it was like, hey, you're gonna go home if you
Speaker 1: don't start making some shots Luca, and they was like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, this.
Speaker 2: Is this is a closeout game.
Speaker 1: You can't continue to carry a team on your back
Speaker 1: when you're forty pounds overweight without getting significantly tired. The
Speaker 1: Warriors targeted him on defense because he was out of
Speaker 1: shape in late game scenarios. He couldn't keep up and
Speaker 1: be the Lebron type player that Jason kidd wants him
Speaker 1: to be. He was cooked by the fourth quarter, game
Speaker 1: after game. And you know, another issue is that Dallas
Speaker 1: was last in the NBA in pace of play this
Speaker 1: year because you know, Luca's fat, He's slow, and so
Speaker 1: fighting a way to get out of the transition might help.
Speaker 2: Minimize a lot of the wear and tear on Luca.
Speaker 1: Maybe play Luca off ball, find another person who can
Speaker 1: play make and get their own shots so that all
Speaker 1: the attention is not on Luca. Maybe give Dinwiddie permission
Speaker 1: to handle the ball and have him play some point
Speaker 1: guard a little bit too. And Dimwitty's a lot taller,
Speaker 1: a lot stronger than Jalen Brunson. No shade to Jalen Brunson,
Speaker 1: but do you think he's like five. It's just taller
Speaker 1: than him. So real quick about Spencer Dimwiddie though, as
Speaker 1: an aside, we know he's a weird guy.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: This is what he said after the game. He said,
Speaker 1: before I got to Dallas, this team was connected. When
Speaker 1: they asked him like, what is the what are the
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks? What do you think about them? And he goes,
Speaker 1: when before I got here, they were connected. They look
Speaker 1: like a pretty connected team. After I got here, I'd
Speaker 1: say sexy because the sex appeal went way up. We're
Speaker 1: a good looking team now, man.
Speaker 2: Have you seen his cydeburns?
Speaker 1: They're not filled in yet. Like, maybe come on, Spencer
Speaker 1: never changed. This is the same guy who wanted his
Speaker 1: entire salary in crypto. By the way, that has gone
Speaker 1: from fifty thousand dollars per crypto to like eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: So maybe not take Spencer Dimwittie's advice on financial things anyway,
Speaker 1: interesting stuff happening with MAS. Can't wait to see what
Speaker 1: happens in Dallas and the offseason. All that I know
Speaker 1: for sure is that they are going to be