MAVS NEWS:

[Scott41theMavs]

I am glad to see this discussion and the points being made. This aligns with my previously-stated belief that the Mavs don't see themselves as having some sort of massive unfilled hole at SG that they are desperately trying to fill -- if all of Max, Tarik, and ZR easily fill that whatever-you-wanna-call-it slot (along with Klay), and I think they do, then the Mavs the only thing remaining on their plate is to find a good way to reduce the roster by one player.

My personal belief is that on today's rosters there's a lot of flexibility for who plays where, especially the players in the middle, and for the most part it's likely to look like this:
5 - BIG/CENTER
4,3,2 - 3 WINGS of various size, skills, etc
1 - POINT (typically small)

The preference is to have some position flex across those 3 categories, with some bigger wing(s) who can perhaps play center at times (and maybe vice versa), and some other wing(s) who can perhaps play point at times (and maybe vice versa).

I see an easily proportionate Mavs roster, that fits the above archetype, with 3 bigs, 3 points, and the rest in the middle, and plenty of position-flex players in the mix.

I get what you're saying, but in that model, at least one of those "wings" or whateveryawannacallem absolutely has to have creational ability, whatever traditional position or number you'd want to assign them. Cooper is the only guy they have right now with sufficient dollops of that, and news flash, he can't play 48 mpg. With the POINTs (Kyrie, Sasser, Sergio), in 2026, ideally those players have both creational and playmaking (aka creating shots for others) abilities. Kyrie is a great creator and a decent playmaker. Sasser is a lesser version of a similar model. Sergio looks to be an extremely talented (tho not NBA-experienced) playmaker, while needing a large amount of work to become a serviceable creator. I honestly view him at this stage of his career as a shooting guard who happens to be more of a facilitator than a creator.

Point being, if the Mavs want to play .500 ball or better this year, and have ambitions toward that, they need another creator at the wing, or another creator/playmaker at the one. Ergo, there's still a hole, and still more roster work to do than simply opening up slots, so I would very strongly disagree with the point you're making.