05-31-2025, 05:49 PM
(05-31-2025, 05:17 PM)Winter Wrote: McMahon has an article "The Athletic" now about the two timeline idea and Golden State's attempt to pull it off.
The big difference is Flagg is not Wiseman. Then again, I'm not sure AD is bank-able as a major threat in the way Curry was. It's hard to say much about any of this as a comparison. Golden State had a cutting kind of ball-movement that most teams don't have.
My personal feeling is that just about anything is possible, but going younger sounds a little smarter to me.
I just look at it from the standpoint of even in an ideal scenario, would our roster compete with OKC in the next two years not to mention some of the other power players or up-and-comers should San Antonio get Giannis. That answer seems obvious to me short of injury and that can never be ruled out (Tatum), but 2/3rds of our core are also major injury red flags. Asset wise, it's not the best time for us to be a bad team, but I don't think we have a true competitor so I'd rather just develop Flagg and make moves to better build around him in the future. I wouldn't trade anyone, just to trade them, but I'd take on bad contracts and sell our pieces for future picks.
Someone asked earlier or maybe in another thread how much power Nico has. The obvious answer is "too much". He's certainly on the hot seat after our ownership group was blindsided by the fan reaction to the Luka trade. He's going to try the two timeline thing to save his career, but half-measures rarely work. You just have hope he isn't allowed to do too much damage before he is replaced and the earliest I see that happening is post-TDL so there is a lot of potential to damage the team further.