All ya experts already predicting this would be a disaster for Dallas...I beg to dissagree.
KD and Kyrie thrived and infact were the best team in the east prior to KD goin down..i certainly see the same thing happening in Dallas.
Cuban has made a brilliant move imo and the only hitch really is if Kyrie goes back to being his other self...meaning the one that the Cs had.
The Js have doun alright with having the bulk of the scoring load...same is goin to happen in Dallas...Luka needs help and not just a Robin to his Batman but another co 1b to his 1a..
This also allows Doncic to play off ball at times and this will allow Dallas to offswt those early double teaming Doncic receives and it would be hard now to contain Doncic because there is Kyrie also to keep defenses honest.
Dallas went almost all the way last yr with Doncic by himself what more now with Kyrie...Irving just really need to be focused to basketball and nothing else and they are good.
This is a really surface level take.
There's two ends of the court. Dallas will likely be very good offensively, but they will be terrible defensively and that will be compounded by the fact that they just lost their best defensive player in this deal in DFS. Their front court is weak - and that's being generous. Dwight Powell and Maxi Kleiber aren't scaring scorers out of the paint. A trio of Irving/Doncic/Wood will put a bunch points on the board, but they won't stop anyone.
There's also the locker room issue. Kyrie has bailed on 3 winning teams now. What makes him happy? No one knows. It's undecipherable. Winning clearly isn't a factor. Is it money? Brooklyn gave him a max deal and he played in only 50% of games possible - and a ton of those missed games were missed due to self-inflicted drama. There's a stat on Twitter that shows he never played more than 12 games in a row during his entire Brooklyn stint. That's absurd. Giving him a max isn't going to make him accountable, it's only going to enable his behavior because he has financial security.
He's going to find a reason to miss games - whether it's skipping out for 2 weeks to celebrate his sister's birthday by partying during a global pandemic, refusing to get a shot, being an anti-semite, or because rioters storm the capitol - he will find a reason to be unhappy and not play. Dude's a malcontent who insists on being a leader and it consistently torpedoes championship caliber teams.