Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

[Dundalis]

I feel like your first paragraph is evidence for the opposite conclusion.  For a team with such a large amount of what ifs, its hard to imagine they are going to be legit title contenders, or that adding another what if (is Capela on the decline?) is going to change that significantly.  Even with Kyrie's timeline, you could make a strong argument for seeing how some of these what ifs play out, and then pulling the trigger next offseason when you have 3 picks to potentially trade instead of one.

Another reason to give it a year is that so many of our what ifs are young.  Lively, Omax, Hardy, Green and Williams all have various potential to be better the season after next.  The goal seems to be building a long term contention window, and the earliest reasonable expectation of that window to start is the 24-25 season.

I think Capela might be on the decline. The question is decline from what? From 15 points, 14 boards, 2 blocks he put up his first season in Atlanta? Yeah. Now he's been at 12 points, 11 boards, 1.2 blocks a game. This "declined" version of Capela is still probably easily the best center Dallas has had in many many years. I'll take the declined version of Capela every day of the week.

He's the type of big that could have a very big impact for us during the regular season, but start to become marginalized in the playoffs as has happened before. But I will take that 100%. Would I give up the same type of assets I might for someone like Allen, no. But he would have a pretty big impact for a team that will possibly be one of the lightest/smallest teams in the league when it comes to paint presence.