There isn't a 'Dallas Model.' Since Murray Edwards won't allow a real rebuild they just looked at teams that are currently competitive at the top of the league that didn't execute a full rebuild and said we're following the 'x-city' model. There only really is Dallas and one can't really point to them as an example of that being planned out that way enough to model your own team's approach after it.
This team is missing high end top 20 in the league caliber players. They are only able to be acquired by repeatedly picking in the top 5-10 in the draft, getting extremely lucky at the draft table, or trading for late bloomers/undervalued players that evolve into those kinds of players. If you look at the top end of players the vast majority are high draft picks. So if you refuse to bottom out in an actual rebuild Conroy will be relying magic beans at the draft and/or continuing to trade r$%e other GMs which are both the rarest methods of acquiring top end talent. Call me unimpressed.
I can see this potentially getting us back into the playoffs, but cannot see how this will bring us any closer to a Stanley Cup. Maybe that's by design from Murray!
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