05-28-2025, 09:42 AM
General question about team direction...
As it stands today, it appears that the team is (still) in win NOW mode despite the addition of a (potentially) new face-of-the-franchise. At least they are trying to run parallel timelines. Win now to justify the expense of AD/Klay/Kyrie and "young guns" with Flagg/Lively/Christie/maybe Williams or a draftee. Most theories say to pick a lane and make commitments accordingly. So I'm trying understand if we can actually have our cake and eat it too and I wonder what some of the deeper thinkers on the board feel about the two pronged approach.
I just think back to Luka's draft and how the team looked so different when he joined. But instead of developing organically, the MBT mortgaged future draft capital on bringing in established talent like KP. Granted the initial talent cupboard around Luka was so bare it was embarrassing, but after KP didn't work out, it got really difficult to add young talent to complement Luka's timeline. DAL isn't really flush with picks for the next few years, but does sub-optimizing for the older guys now hurt team growth in the future?
As it stands today, it appears that the team is (still) in win NOW mode despite the addition of a (potentially) new face-of-the-franchise. At least they are trying to run parallel timelines. Win now to justify the expense of AD/Klay/Kyrie and "young guns" with Flagg/Lively/Christie/maybe Williams or a draftee. Most theories say to pick a lane and make commitments accordingly. So I'm trying understand if we can actually have our cake and eat it too and I wonder what some of the deeper thinkers on the board feel about the two pronged approach.
I just think back to Luka's draft and how the team looked so different when he joined. But instead of developing organically, the MBT mortgaged future draft capital on bringing in established talent like KP. Granted the initial talent cupboard around Luka was so bare it was embarrassing, but after KP didn't work out, it got really difficult to add young talent to complement Luka's timeline. DAL isn't really flush with picks for the next few years, but does sub-optimizing for the older guys now hurt team growth in the future?