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[mvossman]

Their plan last year never came to fruition. They planned to have DLO hold down the fort until December, for Kyrie to come back, and then they’d have both. DLO proved incapable and Kyrie played zero games. Run a lot of offense through AD, as a high usage Big. Who played very little. Develop rookie Flagg as more of on-ball player, leading to an eventual point-forward modern NBA archetype. To have Lively, who many think is capable of being an offensive hub of sorts, run more DHO’s and passing from the short roll. He played single digit games. I’m sure I’m missing some other key factors, but their entire plan was never realized. To take anything from how last year actually played out as an “I told you so”, is in bad faith IMO.

I wildly disagree.  There were many of us who recognized the massive creation hole created by the Luka trade and that it wasn't close to filled with DLO, an oft injured, limited creator in AD and a rookie.  It was even worse than I expected as I thought they would get more out of DLO, but I feel like some folks don't realize just how much this roster is still lacking in creation.  Larry turning into a legit NBA point guard sooner rather than later would be a really big help.