NBA Summer League | July 9th-16th

[hakeemfaan]

I think this is a dangerous mindset.  Based on this argument you could warrant spending the few remaining future assets on win now vets so we don't waste his talent.  Flagg will probably hit his prime sooner than most, but its still going to be a couple of years.  More importantly this roster timeline is not now.  It does not have the overall talent to win now.

So far this FO is doing exactly what a lot of us hoped it would.  They focused on the 26 draft and then focused on acquiring young players.  That mindset needs to continue until they see significant success on the court.  Then you can start assessing when to make win now moves.

It's not a dangerous mindset at all.

Of course in a 1 para conversation a lot of nuances are lost, which is why I said there is no easy solution.

You can try to be like the Cavs were with LeBron where they went all in during his first rodeo, didn't win a title, jeopardized future assets,  and Bron left anyway.

However, who is to say that if they didn't go all in and played the long game, they would have done any better and Bron would have stayed?  At least with the previous approach, they went far in the playoffs than Bron watching from his home every year as the playoffs started.

Coop is watching Dylan and VJ on strong teams.  While we say we have 7 more years, the reality is also that each year the team doesn't contend, it is wasting a year of a generational talent. All you can do is hope Coop stays content even as he enviously watches his contemporaries be in situations that he wishes he were in.

Again there are no easy answers.  All I'm saying is there is no long term timeline wrt a generational player who already has shown that he is one of the top players in the league. The timeline to contend runs through every year that he is here.