TWITTER: O.J. Mayo to Dallas

[kbdullah]

Mark Cuban

@OJ_Mayo Welcome to the family OJ. We are fired up !! MFFL Mavs/Mayo Fan For Life !

O.J. Mayo

I will be signing with dallas! #Mavsnation

Jeff Caplan

Am told Mayo deal is multiyear, but not sure how long. Mavs had about $4M in cap space.

...And Mavericks signed a shooting guard.

[Dissonance]

Ugh.

[goodfoot]

Good signing, they needed to make up for losing Terry. Along with Collison, Jones, and Brand this is a decent offseason for the Mavs.

[Luke]

Mavs needed a two guard in the worst way.

It's funny, after starting this offseason hilariously bad, they've really rebounded. I've liked all of their recent moves. There's optimism in Dallas for the first time in months, people here are beginning to get genuinely excited about basketball.

[R-Star]

Hell of a pickup for the Mavs.

Collison/Beaubois
Mayo/Carter
Marion/Carter/Jones
Dirk/Brand
Kaman/?

Team is filling out. Feel like I'm forgetting someone.

[kbdullah]

Brandan Wright is still there. Dominique Jones, SG, is averaging 25+ in summer league through two games. Bernard James is doing OK there too.

I think Mavericks might still try to bring back Delonte now that they've reached the cap (I assume they did since they only had 4 M left before this signing). Maybe get another big if they can. They can use their exceptions now too.

[PD]

They are slowly becoming a very good team with solid additions.

[Wade County]

Good signing for Dallas. I see why they let Jet go now.

[R-Star]

They went for an old team with no future to now having a young, fairly promising backcourt.

Add the Caveman to that and its a nice summer indeed.

[chilltown]

Well damn.

[RollWithEm]

Never count Cubes out, I guess.

[croco]

Originally Posted by R-Star

They went for an old team with no future to now having a young, fairly promising backcourt.

Add the Caveman to that and its a nice summer indeed.

Fairly promising? They are fairly average, still fairly young players with fairly limited upside who will help to achieve a fairly decent record. Collison and Mayo are also fairly undersized for their respective positions. Those aren't free agent signings to get excited about.

[E.H. Munro]

Mayo ultimately wants to be a point guard, so this might be something like Minnesota signing Billups all those years ago. I tend to think his best role is in JT's old role of combo guard off the bench, but I guess we'll see.

[Luke]

Two weeks ago it looked like Dallas wasn't even going to be a playoff team next year. Now they look like they'll be able to push 50 wins. Not every team can be a contender.

[kbdullah]

Originally Posted by croco

Fairly promising? They are fairly average, still fairly young players with fairly limited upside who will help to achieve a fairly decent record. Collison and Mayo are also fairly undersized for their respective positions. Those aren't free agent signings to get excited about.

I gotta disagree...both Collison and Mayo have shown promise in the past before being asked to come off the bench, especially Mayo who put up 18.5 ppg his rookie year. As far as being undersized, you have to consider that the bulk of our shooting guard minutes have been given to Jason Kidd, Delonte West, Jason Terry, Roddy Beaubois, and J.J. Barea over the past few seasons, and O.J. Mayo is bigger than all of the aforementioned.

Regardless of the lack of stardom brought in this offseason, the newcomers bring added dribble penetration, perimeter defense, interior defense, interior scoring, and rebounding.