05-19-2026, 01:40 PM
(05-19-2026, 12:48 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Sure, but to his excellent point, who's designing the offense and defense and how that person envisions Flagg's role in those systems has everything to do with the type of players they'll want to put around him. I know how I'd build around Flagg, but I have a pretty low level of confidence that it's what they'll look to do.
The design of the team, as in what it's trying to accomplish and how, is everything, imho.
I agree that building around Flagg is the singular most important "conceptual" thing in the draft and free agency. We cannot look at the talent of a player and make a decision about fit just based on solely on his stats or his play with another team.
One of the worst +/- lineups that the Mavs played last year was Flagg/Christie/Washington, and I wouldn't have guessed that at all at the beginning of last year. I don't think there's anything simple about it.