12-20-2025, 05:10 PM
(12-20-2025, 04:55 PM)mvossman Wrote: I mean there has been a ton of talk regarding AD great fit with Flagg. If AD doesn't get moved and the AD/Kyrie/Flagg group look as good as you hope, seems like it would be a similar type signing.
They right now seems to be Finely and Ricardi, guys that were here for the Luka trade and the Kyrie extension. Right now it looks like they will be running the show until at least the offseason, and I would not be surprised if one of them (probably Ricardi) gets made permanent at that point.
Sure, but it's a huge leap to think that fit or optimism for success will possess "them" to build on the trio for more than a little while. Those guys are old!
I'm just saying this: we haven't seen the trio together yet. The trio is good, and might be be better next season than we here can even imagine, given a little more development from Flagg. If the offers they get (which we don't know about yet) don't get them somewhere worth going, what's the downside in just letting things play out? These are GREAT players we're talking about. Flagg being this good this soon makes me wonder what's possible, that's all. I don't think deciding not to trade AD or Kyrie at the deadline or even this summer automatically means you have to tie yourself to them for the next 5-7 years. That thinking doesn't track for me. You could say the offers will only decline, but if they're already not good enough, what's the difference?
I think Winter said it a second ago: the question that matters is "What's good enough?" All I'm saying is that the question should be applied in both directions, including a "don't blow it up" direction, because I'm suddenly seeing room for that approach to be "good enough."