Trade & FA 2024-25:

[KillerLeft]

Minnesota tried it with KAT and Gobert, but they broke it up because of KAT's future contract concerns (like Luka) We've yet to see OKC with Hartenstein and Holmgren until Chet returns.  Cleveland is the only team that seems to have made it work so far. Maybe the Mavs are going to try to model themselves after them.

Agreed, except...Mobley is not who Davis is anymore in terms of mobility, and we haven't actually seen the Cleveland thing in the playoffs yet. 

I kind of doubt the OKC model is going to be attempted the way many fans assume. I think Hartenstein was brought in to be the backup 5, basically. I think that team is much, much too smart to try to play those guys together too much. 

Minnesota is a fair comparison, I think, only it had a better chance of working on offense than this does because KAT was a great shooter. And, for the record, I never thought that was a good way to build the Wolves, not for one second. Never did I have even a modicum of fear over facing that team in a playoff series. This Dallas front line will prove equally ineffective in the games that matter, should the team even reach those games. Davis is a 5 in the NBA to me.