Building Around Cooper: A Backward-Looking Thought Experiment

[Jakeospikez]

I don't think PJ's value disappears overnight after playing on a dysfunctional team for a season. Obviously you won't be selling high, but I still think he would be interesting to teams like the Bulls, Pistons, Warriors, Lakers, and Thunder. The worst thing to do would be to hold onto him even longer while his value continues to decline playing behind Flagg. Just move on in the offseason for the best draft pick you can get.

That would be worst case scenario but I find it hard to believe his play won't improve playing with Kyrie and a further developed Flagg with another full offseason. He's 27 which is still young so not like he's at risk of aging out. I'd definitely want to see how things play out next season and act at the TDL if it just doesn't work unless there's someone that wants to trade a high teens/low 20s pick that the Mavs really believe in, or they get one of the top bigs of course.

I also don't think it's super critical to have 40%+ 3pt shooters at every spot. If they shoot well enough on open C&S 3s that the other team won't sag way off of them and make sure to contest, they're providing spacing. I wouldn't want to see another team that had multiple 3&D guys with no handles/slashing ability. There's room for 1 DFS on a team max.