ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

[Kammrath]

I feel like there is a lot of wishful thinking here.  What does a Ben Simmons trade even look like?  How do you assess his value with that much uncertainty around him?  What are you willing to give up for a player that does not fit with Luka (unless you assume he does things he has never done before on the court) and may not even play?

What exactly is the "wishful thinking"? I simply think Ben Simmons fills in the blanks to what we know really well. I am not suggesting he is the only way to fill in those blanks. He just makes sense of the mystery before us. But there are also other ways to make sense of the mystery, like I suggested, a two for one trade where a wing and PG come back to fill the roster spot the Mavs have purposely left open. 

I am just trying to make sense of what we know. I am not "wishing" anything. I actually think Simmons would be a big risk.