01-27-2026, 03:06 PM
(01-27-2026, 02:46 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: See...it goes back to what I brought up the other day. The elephant in the room we're all just talking right past is: some people think it's pointless to try to be good next year, despite the Mavs having no incentive to be bad. Others assume they can and will find a way to be "good" next year, in some sort of relative way. Some feel as hopeless as the first group, but still expect the Mavs to make decisions based on making an attempt to be good, given said lack of incentive to be bad.
What we need to know is the direction the Mavs will chose or have already chosen, and we're just throwing spaghetti at the wall until we have that context. Every single one of us is assuming something, at least a small thing, and that's coloring our individual outlooks.
If you think this is about to be a "start over" situation, a '31 first is a great asset to get. If you subconsciously believe there's a world in which next season doesn't suck, exchanging a current good rotation player for that seems unthinkable. It's where the Mavs decision makers are (and we don't even know who they are yet, really) on this spectrum that matters.
I think there are a spectrum of views between being good next year vs full rebuild. I think there a lot of folks who look at it more like a reset (quick rebuild) and some of the arguments against such a late pick are coming from that perspective.