07-31-2025, 12:20 PM
(07-31-2025, 12:14 PM)mvossman Wrote: Yep. You had asked earlier are we better off now (after landing Flagg) than we would have been if Nico sat on his hands at the TDL (assuming we don't land Flagg anyways). I think we would have had a better chance winning a championship in the next 7 years (including last season) if Nico stands pat. I'm afraid Flagg timeline wont fit with Kyrie/AD and there is a very good chance he won't be as good of player (although more well rounded) than Luka.
And I disagree (with the idea they were clearly on a path to winning, not commenting on the comparison), but more importantly, I'm not sure I'd have even enjoyed a championship built around Luka (at least the version of him we were starting to get consistently). He had become tough to root for. The last fun Luka moment for me was when he buried the Suns in the first half of that game 7, and those moments had become fewer and fewer. It had gotten to the point where all of them were about him putting up huge scoring totals.