10-30-2020, 08:55 AM
(10-30-2020, 07:43 AM)omahen Wrote: I totally agree about KillerLeft mindset. We have to think big. However, after spending some time thinking, it doesn't really make sense for Giannis to Dallas move to happen.Of course, getting a ring makes accepting the Beta role a lot easier. Just ask Chris Bosh about the Miami days. ( But he never made it back to being an Alpha)
Giannis is a two time MVP. If you bring him to Dallas, do you bring him as MVP and Luka plays Beta or do you bring him as Beta to Luka? I find it hard to accept this will work long term. You are merging two alphas - which one is big enough to swallow his ego?
Look at Durant in GSW. He came as Alpha, but he was never accepted as the Alpha in GSW, which eventually made him unhappy and he left. In the Lakers, LeBron is a clear Alpha, that will resign his position in a couple of years to the Beta. That's why the former Alpha (Davis) accepted to be Beta for a while.
But you make a good point about how the dynamic will work (or not) between Luka/Giannis. Not said is the effect on KP. He's gone from Alpha to Co-Alpha (right after trade) to Beta. Now he gets pushed down another rung? There's going to have to be huge early success to keep everyone happy, and even then it might not work.