Time now finally to look back on what is a largely completed off season for the Western conference.

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Let's get right to it Danny the Dallas Mavericks why don't we just talk about what they did here before we give them a great.

So the biggest thing that they did was drafting Dennis Smith in the first round they also decided to stay over the cap which was a surprise and so they traded AJ Hammons and they actually had a trade exception from the Andrew Bogot deal.

So they used that they traded Hammons to to the heat in exchange they got a future second-round pick and Josh McRoberts and a bunch of cash they basically paid most of his contract to eat that salary.

And then the other big thing that they did well they resigned dirt about 5 million a year with the team option for the second year and then we still don't know with their own snowless dwellers still a restricted for agent hanging out there on a very very thin market.

Yeah that's definitely the case that McRoberts trade I liked that one for them because Hammons I looked at him as dead money he was 24 did not play well in the D league last year and had a third year guaranteed on his contract which actually was about 1.5 million maybe a little bit more than that.

Whatever the minimum was for 2018 it seems like the plan here is a cogent one sticking with this developing young core they got Smith which they're happy with they're talked that they would get into the point guard market now with adding him they believe that no longer was necessary and taking on McRoberts probably can't play anymore but the money for this year doesn't matter and they get that 2023 second round they get the cash which is 5.1 million as much as Miami could possibly send.

The second round of being 2023 you have to discount it course because so far away but who knows where Miami will be at that time and this is one of those teams that actually could look that far ahead because they have had such a stable ownership and management and coaching group so I think they're not necessarily going to try and compete although I think they could be better than some people think this season they have now begun to put together a nice young core assuming of course that they can get new all to come back a lot of this is still incomplete as we've seen with some of these teams here.

You know if they really overpay him this great goes down if they can get him on a long term deal it goes up if he takes the qualifying offer and then you can leave next summer it goes down they got to find that good middle ground with him and it seems like the standoff could drag on.

One other thing I wanted to note is that while choosing to spec to likely use cap space in 2018 as opposed to 2017 is largely a good idea just because there are so few teams that will have money then it is more precarious because of West Matthews he is a big part of why they would have

space and he has a player option that he could just pick up and that would change it and I'm not sure if there would be a market for it because probably him picking it up would mean that he

disappointed this year so then you might not find a team to take on that you might have to throw some assets granted they have the assets to throw at it

and there were some good contracts this year I was thinking about them as a potential like Jonathan Simmons suit or something like that and so I do think that it was the right decision but it was a closer call for them than others but then at the same point the argument that you can make is other than the

Lakers and what maybe a few other interesting teams they have space they won't have to be competing for max level guys the way that they did a few years ago when it was the wide open markets and they were following just short all these times yeah that's a great point there jerk getting him to sign on for 5 million a team option then for next year which they probably will decline at him that to see where he ends up but still I mean the fact that they've been able to get him to buy into this organization and remember he could be giving them the

Kobe Bryant right now where he'd be demanding the max until the very moment he retires he's not doing that they have worked out an arrangement with him through their culture whether it's through something a little bit more

untoward than that future arrangements will never know that but I agree and even if West Matthews opts in as of now they should have 33 million in space for next year obviously whatever

no else gets will come out of that they also would need to resign Seth Curry at that time it should they want to I want ultimately for them with an A minus what do you think of that I don't like that we agree I gave them exactly the same

great because it was a phenomenal offseason and something that I'm trying to do this year's focus more on the big stuff than the small stuff and the biggest things they got right they

Dennis Smith was the best pick available to them and I don't give them as huge a burst because he was the right guy it was it's just like if you

pick the right guy number one I'm not going to give you a huge burst but they did it and that's great and then they were they were patient with

everything else and they're one of the few teams that actually exhibited that didn't add on bad contracts and one small thing before we

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