06-07-2021, 10:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-07-2021, 10:40 PM by DallasBasketball.)
(06-07-2021, 09:24 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: See, I think it's more about the team's ability to maneuver in such a way where they are in position to deliver the team he wants/needs when he is truly aware enough to know it, right around when this coming extension is over (5 years, I think, if the 5th year of the extension is a player option).
I don't think ANY amount of team success between now and then will matter much to him at that time if the roster isn't very flexible AT THAT TIME. Obviously, I'm not suggesting they don't TRY to put a great team out there in the meantime, but they need to make SMART decisions relative to timing.
Maybe I'm wrong.
I think you are right.
The greatest roster builds in the last 2 decades were
1. Lakers 3peat - Timing, salesmanship, draft expertise all combined to pull off the heist of Shaquille O’Neal and the drafting of Kobe Bryant
2. 2010 cHeat - Pat Riley maneuvering for cap space when he had the inside track to LeBron James via Dwade
3. 2008 Boston - the original super team that did it the way any team could have done it. They developed and accumulated assets and parlayed them with great timing into the combo of Garnett, Allen, Pierce and Rondo.
4. 2016 Warriors - They did it through the draft and then got lucky via the unique situation of steph’s cheap contract and 1-time increase in the cap.
5. Tim Duncan-Kawhi Spurs - They tanked, so they cheated, but after that they drafted and developed their asses off.
6. 2015 Cavs/2019-2020 Lakers - With help from the league, they accrued draft collateral and landed appealing players which they traded for stars upon landing Lebron James via their individual inside tracks to the star. 2009 Lakers also got help from the league.
So of the situations above Mavs have first tried to follow in the path of the 3peat Lakers via draft and trade, but if it cannot work out they must pivot to the 2010 cHeat model for round 2 of Doncic. We cannot rely on luck (16 Warriors) or the league helping us out (Cavs/Lakers). We are not consistently good enough at drafting to do what the Spurs did in my opinion, nor do we have the asset discipline like Boston.
Swinging for the fences is Mark Cuban’s style.
But do we have the inside track?