07-09-2025, 10:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-09-2025, 10:39 PM by KillerLeft.)
(07-09-2025, 10:18 PM)mvossman Wrote: We spent 5 mil on Dlo and vet min on Exum. Not exactly ton of money. Dlo has his warts but he has been a decent starter most of his career. Williams had a nice short run as a two way. Not to mention Dlo is a Nico guy and word is the other Nico guys (Kyrie, Klay and AD) asked for him. I would not hold my breath that he is going to lose his spot any time soon.
Plus, it is an unbelievably ambitious ask of Cooper Flagg to expect him to come in and play point guard during his rookie season better than guys who have been doing it for years and years.
SIde note: I've never seen a player coming onto the team with such high expectations. People are acting like he can do anything, and maybe he can, I don't know. But it's funny that we're assuming he's going to be one of the best players in the league, seemingly in any role we feel like saying he should play, without ever having seen him wear a Mavs jersey. For the record, I think he'll be able to competently run the offense at some point, for some possessions, at least. And, I think we're about to see him run it a lot...in summer league. I struggle with the expectation that the ball will be in hands with any sort of consistency for the first half of this season, and I'm not even 100% sure that ends up being his toehold role in the league. He'd have to be way better at it than Jason Tatum to live up to that, just for example. Like way, way better.
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