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It's better than spending resources (when you have so few) on a team that isn't ready to compete this year due to two of your pillars either being a rookie or coming off a major injury.  '26-27 should be the goal for this roster construction.

Ya I’m surprised more aren’t seeing it this way. It doesn’t matter who you would get in some theoretical trade using PJ and/or Gafford and draft capital, this team isn’t competing for anything without a fully healthy Kyrie, full stop. Also, why use your best assets trading for a stop gap solution when you have a more prudent option. If there is a player that can be a stop gap AND play next to Kyrie then sure but those players are few and far between. I feel like everyone has assumed we HAD to breakup the frontcourt to address the needs in the backcourt and now because of some good cap management there is an opportunity to address is differently and keep all the talent in the frontcourt and see what it actually looks like before making a decision. What if Flagg turns out to be a great creator and all of the sudden it looks like we should be moving our assets for some great POA defender to slot between Kyrie and Flagg instead of another creator? We have a chance to find that out now.

Rarely disagree with Bobby but he’s being very disingenuous with the idea that we’re being cheap at PG. we literally just committed 120 mil to our actual PG, he just happens to be hurt which sucks. He was literally talking about how shitty it is going to be to trade for a guard because we would be coming from a position of desperation but now we have leverage but it seems like he still wants us to make a desperation move, just feels a little hypocritical. 

DLo can certainly be a basketball terrorist and I’m going to get really annoyed a lot watching him but I just sat through a season where our leading minute getting was Spencer Dinwiddie so it can’t be much worse. But more importantly I’ll be ok putting up with it knowing we did this instead of burning our best assets on like a 5 month rental. Will we probably trade PJ/Gafford for backcourt help but there’s no rush really from where I’m sitting.