(11-11-2023, 04:58 PM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Love me some Lively, but 'ride or die' with a rookie 19 year old center in the playoffs is not a plan. It is a prayer.
Oh? I think it is indeed a plan. Their plan, in fact. And a practical one (even if not the ideal way to go, since ideal is hard and prohibitively expensive to acquire). And probably the best plan within their reach.
If you think that plan also needs prayer to succeed, so be it -- but I bet it's exactly where they are intending to go.
As for the Nico plan, I don't think HE had any particular player(s) in mind in that off-the-cuff conversation. I think Philly has an excess of PF types. But maybe Philly's players don't quite fill that need? Then again, finding someone with an excess top-level PF to toss this direction won't be a slam dunk, so there's that reality to deal with.
![[-]](https://www.mavsboard.com/images/collapse.png)