Trade & FA 2024-25:

[speedkilz88]

That's true but ONLY if you look at this from a purely offensive point of view... what about defense? Especially when you consider Luka's flaws on defense.

Let's build that statement out further. Does Luka really need space, or does he need someone who can help create space for him by being a viable option that he can dish the ball to when he's being doubled? What if he had someone like Hakeem, who was not a threat from three but could do his own thing from elsewhere without help?

Also, why are you only asking about "post-KP"? KP is the 2nd best 5-out Center in the league after Wemby, isn't he? Has KP's game really changed that much compared to when he was at the Mavs... or does he just look better when he's playing next to 4 quality defenders, which the Mavs can never replicate with Luka and Kyrie as starters? 

More importantly, even if there were better 5-out Centers out there, the Mavs fecked up the first 5 years of Luka's time here by being so very bad strategically with trades and in the draft... therefore, your trade-cupboard is bare... and now, the new CBA is also there to consider... so they won't be able to trade for them and need to look at the next best cheapest option, which is a rim-protecting Center who can also help defend the perimeter... and who can do it for 48 minutes (so that Dwight the Blight doesn't see the court).

In posting this, I just realized something else... I've become a huge Caitlin Clark fan over this off-season. I really, really hope the Fever's Front Office doesn't become the next Cavs or Mavs and waste Caitlin's first 5-7 years in the league by doing as many stupid things. AFAIC, the Cavs and Mavs are the poster-childs for how to waste away the first years of a generational talent. The Mavs are obviously worse than the Cavs because they had more information available to them on the internet compared to when Lebron entered the league, and the Mavs also had the Cavs to use as example of what not to do but still did the same.

They better get Caitlin a bodyguard/enforcer.