You’re now the Mavs’ GM. What are you going to build?

[Dahlsim]

The Mavericks dun messed up already, again.

After being gifted the #1 pick (that was stolen from the Jazz):

• Priority #1 should have been to trade AD to the Thunder or Rockets for as many assets as y'all could have gotten out of them.
  
• Priority #2 should have been to trade Kyrie, Gafford and PJW, once again, trying to get as many assets as possible for them.
  

Now y'all are on the same path that the Mavs went on after drafting Luka... but worse, because even if y'all make a contending team, it will have to compete with stiffer competition than when y'all first got Luka (in OKC, Spurs, Hou, a returning Boston [after Tatum returns, and they'll be armed with another lottery pick to add to what they have])... and your team won't be as good as those.

You have some valid points but your timing is off. Its true the West has stacked teams with young bright futures so the competition would be fierce no matter what the Mavs did.  Trading for "assets" wouldn't have changed that at all. 

Mavs have high quality veterans in AD, Kyrie, Gafford and PJW but the team is coming off a injury plagued down season and they didn't have long term contracts besides AD.   

Now they get their vets under what should be tradeable contracts and hope to showcase those vets in a healthy year.  A strong year now will not only give Dallas a year or two to make a run but still leave those guys as  tradeable assets to restock picks and youth around Coop and Lively.