12-22-2025, 07:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-22-2025, 07:19 PM by KillerLeft.)
(12-22-2025, 07:07 PM)Winter Wrote: Next year may be a surprise, but I have a hard time imagining two 33-year olds and a 19-year old competing for the top spot in the west. Especially when you look at Houston, San Antonio, and OKC.
Irving hasn't even played 60 games in a season since the 2019-20 season. Davis has just done it once in that time frame
No argument.
But, look at it a different way: What odds would you give me that Kyrie/AD are the literal two best players Flagg ever has a chance to play with here in Dallas, no matter how long he plays here?
You can call it optimistic on my part to wonder if that team can be good enough, but I'd say it's more optimistic to think replacing that amount of talent is a simple matter of time or resources. Meanwhile, slight failure on staying the course might mean a couple of 50-win seasons and maybe a conference finals berth, which should help Flagg prepare for the next nucleus, in theory. Slight failure in the other direction, and we don't get a single second of meaningful basketball around here until he's halfway through his second contract, if he's even still here.
Just saying, the worry can cut both ways. I think they should A) hire a good to great GM and B) do what he thinks, given all the info available. That could end up with the team headed in a variety of directions, but what I'm pushing back against with Mvossman, specifically, is that I don't feel the need to hope for anything just because I think they'll screw up less than they might if a different direction is chosen. They'll either be a good front office or they won't. If they're not, they'll find a way to blow it.