Paulo Alves

So I think my number one scenario, and I think it's close, it's neck and neck, is right now is still, you know, run it back with the same team.

Well, not exactly the same team, you know, change.

Burn in Phineas Smith, perhaps, or make it move here or there.

Maybe an enforcer, who I've talked about bringing back to Unbroken before.

Someone of that sort, right, might make sense.

But after that, I rank, take me a step back and trading for Yang or trading for, trading Chengun for Yang pieces and picks higher than trading for Yanis.

And because I do think that you bring Yanis into this team and I'm not sure they're tier one contenders.

And if they're not, well, you got to start all over again in a few years.

Might not even be a few years, might be a couple of years when KD is gone.

Because once you bring in Giannis, this is KD's timeline.

And when KD retires, you're going to take a step back that you're not going to be able to compensate for.

That's what happened with, you know, paying a premium for a guy like Giannis is that, well, now you are on KD's timeline and KD is not a bridge between being good and being very good.

Now you are on KD's timeline.

So that's that.

Not only is that riskier, we would not be sure that that works.

And taking a step back allows guys like Amman Thompson and Reed Shepard, who seem to be the highest ceiling guys on this team at this moment, to get a little bit more time to get to that, you know, prime of their career levels.

Now, there's arguments against that as well.

Well, if you take a step back, what's to tell you that you're not just stuck in a conference with, you know, the Wemby Spurs who can't get past, just like you couldn't get past the Warriors?

uh who's telling you that's you the right time to strike isn't before wendy is full prime and just it's impossible to win against them which i think is a very real possibility when you talk about you can say that about wendy you can say that about the thunder as well they're still incredibly well uh built to be a dynasty

for you know they haven't been as scary this year because of injuries but for the few years to come they're like they're not I get the very clearly the best team in the league and they still have an insane amount of picks and an insane amount of guys that are still young that can still develop like Chet's still very young Jalen Williams is still very young