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

[Benskix2]

I think Kyrie is going to be a worse player next year than he was last year, and the same will be true every year for the rest of his career. Even if he's somehow not worse he's going to miss a big chunk of the year

I think AD is going to have to play a lot of the 4, because we already have two 5's who aren't great candidates to play the 4 and deserve a lot of minutes. So either/both Cooper or PJ are going to have to play a lot of 3 to make this roster work.

There is a very high probability that injuries sort out some of the minutes crunch, but missing players obviously hurt our ceiling.

So in regards to the OP I don't believe this team has a window of contention as currently constructed, and that our best bet is to try and get good around Cooper Flag a couple of years from now, but I don't want to assemble a team whose ceiling is "just good".