You gotta be kidding me

[pass1st]

drafting a 27 year old

[Calispursfan11]

So we left a guy like PJ3 on the table for a volume shooter, a TOSB, and an undersized forward that "works hard"?

Because it's Dallas.

Can you tell me, what is the meaning of the pickle? Thanks in advance.

[DMC]

Can you tell me, what is the meaning of the pickle? Thanks in advance.

You'd have to smell his breath I think.

[Kidd K]

2011 - traded away Jordan Hamilton's rights, could have taken Isiah Thomas
2010 - traded for Dominique Jones's rights, could have had Landry Fields
2009 - traded for Roddy's rights, nobody else taken after him panned out any better, unless you want to make an argument for Chase Budinger
2008 - took Shan Foster late in the second round. Could have bought a 1st round pick and taken Mario Chalmers, DeAndre Jordan, Luc Mbah a Moute or Goran Dragic
2007 - took Nick Fazekas when Marc Gasol was still on the board
2006 - took Maurice Ager when Paul Millsap was still on the board
2005 - didn't have a 1st round pick. Had they bought one, could have drafted David Lee, Brandon Bass, CJ Miles, Ersan İlyasova, Monta Ellis or Marcin Gortat
2004 - traded for Devin Harris' rights, traded for Pavel Podkolzin's rights at 21, could have taken Tony Allen, Kevin Martin Delonte West or Anderson Varajeo at 21.
2003 - took Josh Howard late in the first round. His career turned out far better than anyone taken after him. Probably the last good draft the Mavs had.
2002 - Didn't have a first-round pick. Had they bought one, they could have taken Carlos Boozer or Luis Scola.
2001 - took Kyle Hill and Kenny Saterfield in the second round. Didn't have a 1st. Had they bought one, they could have taken Gilbert Arenas or Mehmet Okur.
2000 - traded for Eduardo Najera's rights. Had they kept their first-round pick, they could have taken Michael Redd.
1999 - traded for Leon Smith's rights and took Gordan Giricek in the second round. Could have taken Manu Ginobili.

So one good draft in 12 years.

Can't be upset they didn't "trade up" in the draft. So you can safely remove all of those from your "they sucked this year" list. 5 of those gone.

You're also really reaching with them "not taking Ginobili' or Isiash Thomas, and other people nobody else in the NBA was taking either. Ginobili was the 57th pick, Thomas was the 60th. Remove 2 more.

So 7 of the last 13 you can't really about. They didn't do anything, but they didn't it up either.

Getting Howard and Roddy were good years. Dirk the year right before your list starts was also an extremely good year.

So really, you're complaining about 4 years of the last 13, and half of those would've been huge gambles that happened to pay off.


Even worse, Dallas makes their noise through free agency, not the draft. . .just like most other "rich teams". Or does getting Jason Terry, Jason Kidd, Shawn Marion, Tyson Chandler, and all these other great players not count for ?

[erikuff]

As we've seen through the years, Dallas is a team that relies on spending big money.

[mavs>spurs]

i don't understand why they didn't just keep the guy they had at 17, he would honestly probably be the best C on the roster at this point, since mahinmi sucks so hard

[TheCultOfPersonality]

At least the Mavericks don't screw up in the lottery like the Grizzlies do.

[Shank]

Hey guys!

[Latarian Milton]

dallas ain't the right team for them young nigs imho, roddy was a superb young talent but was still left on bench & let to rot. dallas only in the draft this year cuz they aren't allowed to trade away two/more 1st rounders of consective years, they lost 11' draft pick so they're in here this year when they have no clue at all who's the right guy to pick