2025 draft thread: THE MAVS SELECT COOPER FLAGG

[aguiar95]

Final Mavs 2025 Big Board

Tier I - Superstar (potential 1 or 2 on a championship team)

1- Flagg (Comp - Pippen)

Tier II - Star (potential 2 or 3 on the championship team)

2- Harper (Comp - Cunningham lite)

Tier III - Bonafied Starter (potential 3 or 4 on the championship team)

3- Bailey (Comp - Ingram)
4- Edgecombe (Comp - Oladipo)
5- Fears (Comp - Maxey)
6- Jakucionis (Comp - taller, slower Dragic)
7- Knueppel (Comp - Hayward)
8- Johnson (Comp - Taller Cam Thomas)

Tier IV - Perenial Starter (potential 4 or 5 on the championship team)

9- Bryant (Comp - Anunoby)
10- Murray-Boyles (Comp - D. Green)
11- Clifford (Comp - better shooter Josh Hart)
12- Philon (Comp - Beverley)
13- Demin (Comp - Giddey)
14- Essengue (Comp - Coulibaly)
15- Beringuer (Comp - Lively lite)

Strategy:

If #1:
Draft Flagg (duh)

If #2:
Draft Harper (duh)

If #3 or #4:
Try and move down a couple spots where Jakucionis or Fears are still available and land another pick AND dump money (i.e: Hardy/Powell + #4 for #8 + #14). If nothing appears, draft Bayley as he fits better with our young core.

If #11:
Scenario 1: One of the tier III players still available (almost impossible), draft him.

OBS: We shouldn't trade future picks to move up for any of the tier III players.

Scenario 2: None of tier III available, try and move down, get another pick OR dump money (i.e: Hardy/Powell + #11 for #13-15, #11 for #19, #26 and #27) and try to draft guys from tier IV and V.

Ending up with one of the 9-15 guys and getting another assett would be huge.

If get a 2nd rounder, I'd go with any of Gonzalez, Markovic, D. Williams, Zikarsky, Kalkbrenner, Evans or Proctor.