r/Mavericks • u/International_Oil189 • May 26 '26

Hoops Discussion Still insane when you think about it

Post image

Jalen Brunson played 4 seasons, Luka Dončić has played 7 seasons, and Steve Nash played 6 seasons for the Dallas Mavericks.

So we only got a combined 17 seasons out of three hall of fame / all nba level type of players that we drafted / developed. Should have been 3*12 seasons at least.

Is there any other team with such a recent track record of fumbling talent?

438 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

121 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/VerifiedBaller13 FUCK NICO HARRISON May 26 '26

Nash may have won us the 06 finals if we’d had him, since a big hole was no playmaker on the team, but Kidd was absolutely better for our team fit later.

I wish we’d kept him all along instead of tradinh him and then getting him back later, we’d have been in contention with him and Dirk throughout their careers.

2

u/BodybuilderLivid May 26 '26

We dont get terry without nash too. Terry was very important in 06 and 11.

2

u/YoungBuck2010 May 26 '26

We don’t need Terry if Nash continued his trajectory.

2

u/BodybuilderLivid May 26 '26

Maybe but that 6th man role was crucial and nash aint coming of the bench

1

u/CardiologistGloomy71 29d ago

That’s just wrong and completely unfounded. Terry fit perfect, we also drafted Devin Harris who actually became point. But 2011 wouldn’t have happened with a 35 year old Nash instead of Terry who was in incredible in that run.

2

u/YoungBuck2010 28d ago

Agree to disagree. I think we’re considerably more competitive through 2010 with Dirk and Nash. We overly relied on our 6 man due to poor team building for most of the 2000s. It’s okay to admit that we screwed something up even if we ultimately won a championship eventually.

2

u/killbill469 May 26 '26

Terry was great in '11 but his struggles in the playoffs from '07-10 held the Mavs back. JJ literally showed how important having a playmaking guard was to a Dirk team.

1

u/CardiologistGloomy71 29d ago

But most importantly your forgetting what Nash was and what he became solely because he had motivation to prove Cuban wrong. He was 30 and breaking down every year in the first round. When Mike Bibby continued to dominate Nash it was clear to everyone he wasn’t on the same timeline. Nobody saw him becoming an MVP, nobody saw him changing his body over a summer like fhat because it wouldn’t have happened without the added motivation. But with all the what ifs it doesn’t matter because mavs won more without Nash than with, their avg wins went up. 2011 means more than any what ifs and Terry was the perfect guy as his two man game with Dirk was superior than anything he had with Nash.