12-01-2025, 12:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-01-2025, 12:59 PM by DanSchwartzgan.)
(12-01-2025, 12:34 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: We need players on Flagg´s timeline and we especially need a legit 2nd star. This is a generational draft, where you´ll be guaranteed to find very good players in the middle and late 1st round. The whole plan is to find the 2nd star. Nothing else matters. We have Lively and Christie as excellent young rotational pieces/starters. We need that 2nd star. This is the best draft to own four top 20 picks, two in the lottery, to make this happen. Plus Dillingham and Essengue are still completely unexposed former lottery picks.
No one is giving up a lottery pick in this draft.
No team that doesn't control its pick the next year is going to try to work four rookies (or even 3) into their rotation.
From a strategic standpoint, a pick in 2027 is more valuable than something in the late teens in 2026 as it opens trade possibilities. Historic drafts come fairly regularly. The top of the DSJ draft was supposed to be incredible. How did that work out? Also, the second star doesn't have to be 19 and having a lotto pick doesn't guarantee the 19 year old you get is going to be a star.
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