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[KillerLeft]

I understand. I get why people are taking the news as gold. I just think once they see Wood in training camp with Luka, all that will go out the window even if this report is accurate. Talent always stands out. The best players play. That's just basketball. If Wood goes through training camp and pre season, but doesn't get the starting nod, I'll live with it. Kidd should know best at that point. Too me, anything prior to training camp and pre season is just speculation. My view is obviously just my personal opinion and nothing to back it.

YOU  SAID I COULD HAVE THIS!!!

Seriously, though: I agree that this is all subject to change before camp, during camp, 10 games into the season, a month in, at the all-star break, whenever. 

I'm just happy that there's SOME indication now that everything they're doing isn't the result of some dead set goal to play two bigs like the Lakers did when Kidd studied under Vogel. I know it will be appropriate to do that at times, and I'm glad they can, but this to me means they're at least open to the idea that what we saw AFTER the Porzingis trade was better for Luka than what we saw before. 

Luka is and will always be a pnr player. He's never going to blow by people. He needs angles, and above all he needs SPACE. Carlisle, for all his faults, understood that well, and I thought Kidd knew it by the end of last season (he might have understood it at the beginning, but his lineups didn't demonstrate it, if so). 

When I saw the top of the roster get so big-heavy while simultaneously losing their second most important non-big without replacing him, I started to worry that the approach from first part of last year, before the Porzingis trade, was coming back around again. And honestly, that still might happen. But for now, I'm content to live in the comfortable world of "maybe."