(04-21-2026, 10:09 AM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: If that's how you view it I don't get why you actually want the Mavs to go after Presti. Because what I am proposing is more or less what he did in OKC. Starting with a fire sale (George and Westbrook still in their primes). Followed by multiple years of absorbing bad contracts in exchange for picks. Recovering the value of vets. Selling them for more picks. Playing young lineups and making multiple first round picks in most years. Starting in 2019. And still doing it when the Thunder were already a really good team in 2024. Loss against the Mavs basically resulted in him entering win now mode (Giddey-Caruso trade).
1 I think my view of Presti is way diff than yours.
2 You see him as having one way to build a team. I think he's way more than a one-trick pony. That's why I want him.
3 Presti would have to work with what's here to work with, and it's not the same as what he had to work with in OKC. Over time, I would expect he would find repeated ways to build the Mavs' draft capital, while also having a better team. The 2 are not mutually exclusive.
4 For Presti (or whoever) the presence of Flagg has to impact just about everything, frankly. The timeline to chase the top (IMO) will be accelerated because, with Flagg, it can. The quest to find the guy to build around is not really needed - now it's doing that building, asap.
Presti please. Let an expert do the work from here.