12-19-2025, 05:35 PM
(12-19-2025, 12:08 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Just curious...Mavs pick 11th...would you trade that pick and PJ for Trey Murphy?
Imo no way. Players in the 11th pick range are generally high quality. You could get a Trey Murphy or maybe even someone better than Trey Murphy. Could be worse but a total bust is pretty rare. There's no rush to win now. Rookie contracts keep you flexible financially so I'd keep the pick for financial reasons alone already. Strong draft class further enforces this.
(12-19-2025, 03:38 PM)mvossman Wrote: I don't think history is in their favor. Most champions have a core that have played together for multiple years, generally getting some playoff experience together during that ramp up time. A lot of times they will add a key piece to put them over the top, but there is generally a strong core with years of experience together. Our top three guys have not played a single game together. Two of them have been on the team for less than a year. We are asking those guys to build whole lot of chemistry very quickly.[/color]
Lebron, Jokic and Ginnis all took at least 8 years to win a title and they were all around 27. It takes a lot of time to get to the point where you can be a number one option on a title team. Its asking an awful lot for Flagg to do it in his early 20s.
This is going back some but this situation could be closer to Tim Duncan than a Lebron. Those guys teams were terrible while Duncan had a hof vet/coach to play with in a good situation.