01-17-2023, 11:19 PM
(01-17-2023, 11:12 PM)cow Wrote: Do you invest him because he's currently your second best player? Feels a bit similar to the THJ situation.
If he's truly your 2nd best player (I'm not convinced he is), you certainly want to keep him. But that isn't a blank check.
One other vital point - some 2nd-best's are way better than others. To me, the dividing line is whether he can make the team be a winner when the best guy is out, or can't. I don't think Wood is anywhere close to being a guy who can take the Mavs to wins when Luka is out. By that criteria, he's probably way down the list.
* Dumont reportedly "has no problem going into next year with a healthy AD and a healthy Kyrie with Cooper Flagg and seeing what it looks like."