It’s hard not to watch a postseason your team is missing and try to glean something from it. There are players on each Finals team’s roster that could help the Mavericks, but that’s not the lesson. Denver and Miami are very unique teams. One would be the only team without Shaq and Kobe, or Lebron, to win a title without a top ten defense. The other, Miami, is without precedent — a team with a negative point differential that almost didn’t make it out of the play-in.
It’s easy to roster-gaze at Denver, but they didn’t happen overnight.