12-12-2025, 12:29 PM
(12-12-2025, 11:58 AM)Winter Wrote: I agree with Dan that we don't truly know AD's value... and probably won't until we see a hard offer from a team. At that point, fans will at least know the baseline. We should know that soon enough.
The Mavericks have signaled that they would wait if the offer at the TDL wasn't good - they wanted to see Kyrie, AD, and Flagg play together. That sounds like FO message to bidders that we won't take a garbage offer, but there's some truth there. I can see why they would want to say that publically, but what is it really saying?
If Kyrie comes back with a reasonable game, AD stay healthy, and Flagg continues to get better... this team will not be a lottery team. But what kind of team is it? To put this a different way, is there really a meaningful one or two-year future that includes Kyrie, AD, and Flagg? Is this team competing for a championship? If you don't believe that, then aren't we pretty much wasting time with AD? (and Kyrie for that matter).
I get the idea of waiting until there's a better offer, but as a fan, that's about as unexciting a thing I can think of. I'll spend the rest of this season watching Flagg develop and hoping the injury prone players over 30 years old don't fall apart on me before we trade them.
I get Kyrie is gonna want to play as soon as he can, but hopefully someone can try and convince him to take his time. Don’t think it will work as long as AD is around, even if he’s not I’m sure Kai just wants to play some ball. I’m fine if we end up with the 8-10th lottery spot, gives us a reasonable chance to move up, and will likely get a good player if we don’t. Just gonna be hard to navigate if we have AD, Kyrie and Flagg together.