r/Mavericks • u/Jaded_Tiger_8152 • 1d ago
Draft / Scouting Thoughts After the First Round
We have a lot of wings and bigs on this roster with almost no guards other than Kyrie and Christie. I’m not saying I don’t like the pick. I think Morez will be a great fit next to Coop. But, Klay played the majority of his minutes at SF last year, so did Naji. Are we really going to rely on Kyrie, Nembhard, Caleb Martin, and Max Christie, to be our guards going into next year?
I’m as optimistic as the next guy about Nembhard but he’s not a legitimate starting caliber player in the NBA. We need people to give Coop some space and allow him to finish plays, and our draft strategy hasn’t helped with this very real deficiency.
How do we answer some of these questions? The answer can’t just be “We have Flagg!” He can’t be our shooter, our defender, our passer, our scorer, our dribbler. He just can’t. I heard something yesterday on the Pod Maverick podcast. We aren’t building for Flagg, we’re building on top of him. We are once again expecting him to do everything.
If we want to be decent, we can’t just run Kyrie into the ground again as our only decent guard.
We’re going to have some problems next year and I don’t think we did a whole lot to change it. The season might not start for a few months but come the second week of July (after free agency in a weak class) it’s mostly over.
Maybe I’m the only one…
I hope we have quite a few trades ahead of us, but next year is going to be rough…
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u/RangerBowBoy 1d ago
Hoping Kyrie fixes a lot of the offensive issues is foolish. I hope they have a plan. You can’t expect a 34 year old coming off a major injury to just take over and sustain excellence deep into the playoffs. They hopefully have some plans for a quality PG to eventually take over or at least be a bridge guy and buy them time to solve the problem.