(07-15-2022, 03:26 PM)mvossman Wrote: It doesn't really matter because I don't see LA making that trade.

(07-15-2022, 03:48 PM)Kammrath Wrote: https://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA/status/1548046089877524482

(07-15-2022, 03:48 PM)Kammrath Wrote: https://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA/status/1548046089877524482

(07-15-2022, 02:04 PM)Fuerza1 Wrote: The Hoop Collective podcast summed up all my feelings on this summer’s failures from Nico and Cuban. Tim Bontemps nailed it from start to finish. 

1.) The Mavs roster looks like a play-in team. 

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IMO, Mavs essentially punted the next 2 seasons, which leaves them with 1 year to turn it around because that 4th year in Luka’s contract will be expiring, and if Mavs do not produce a winner, he’s probably gone. 

(07-15-2022, 04:13 PM)Kammrath Wrote: https://twitter.com/ringer/status/1548051024476344320

(07-15-2022, 04:13 PM)Kammrath Wrote: https://twitter.com/ringer/status/1548051024476344320

(07-15-2022, 02:04 PM)Fuerza1 Wrote: The Hoop Collective podcast summed up all my feelings on this summer’s failures from Nico and Cuban. Tim Bontemps nailed it from start to finish. 

1.) The Mavs roster looks like a play-in team. 

2.) They have no young talent on this roster and are stuck cap wise. 

3.) Even if a star wanted to force his way to DAL, they do not have the ammo to obtain said star. 

4.) The unrestricted free agency clock is ticking for Luka. 3 years to get it right before he sees greener grass. 

IMO, Mavs essentially punted the next 2 seasons, which leaves them with 1 year to turn it around because that 4th year in Luka’s contract will be expiring, and if Mavs do not produce a winner, he’s probably gone. 

2024 the Mavs might have cap space (Plan Powder Part L) but past FA failures are not encouraging. Hell, by then it might be too late. Look at Durant wanting out with 4 years left on his contract and Mitchell in trade talks with 3 years left on his. 

Banking on a lot of hope the last 10+ years and that strategy appears to be what Nico/Cuban are pushing towards, again.

(07-15-2022, 04:19 PM)cow Wrote: Curious what they say about Hardy but after summer league where he often looked like just about everyone else, he's a long way off from being a contributor.

(07-15-2022, 04:24 PM)Tyler Wrote: It reminds me of Brunson after his first summer league. He was awful, and everyone was wringing their hands over Dallas not drafting Mitchell Robinson. That worked out fine, and there's more to producing in the NBA than stuffing a stat sheet in the summer league.

(07-15-2022, 04:24 PM)Tyler Wrote: It reminds me of Brunson after his first summer league. He was awful, and everyone was wringing their hands over Dallas not drafting Mitchell Robinson. That worked out fine, and there's more to producing in the NBA than stuffing a stat sheet in the summer league.

(07-15-2022, 04:26 PM)cow Wrote: It's the missed open looks that bother me and what he'd be contributing on the next level.  The plus side is that he looks comfortable with the ball and isn't afraid to shoot it like some people. *coughjoshcough*

(07-15-2022, 05:13 PM)DallasMaverick Wrote: I seem to remember DFS being a very reluctant shooter early in his career.  

Maybe it's easier for a reluctant shooter to learn to be aggressive, than for a shot-hunter to cool his jets and play within the flow.

(07-15-2022, 03:57 PM)Tyler Wrote: So a western conference finals team that lost one contributor in a position of strength but added 2 more in a position of greatest need suddenly looks like a play-in team?

And what would you consider "turning it around" after nuking the Jazz , embarrassing the Suns, and losing to the eventual champions in the conference finals?

(07-15-2022, 06:29 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Don't try to fight emotions with logic. 

People are mad and are trying to burn the house down. I'm glad you're trying to fight the good fight though!

(07-15-2022, 06:40 PM)cow Wrote: I don't think anyone is trying to burn the house down  I've asked myself the biggest difference in our playoff success from 1st round exits to western conference finalists.  The biggest difference makers in my mind would be JB and Bullock.  So I get why losing JB for nothing gets people in panic mode.  The Wood addition is interesting.  I'm not sure if we are going to be better or worse but I don't think it will be drastic in either direction.  We are just going to be a very different team.  That's exciting in its' own right.

(07-15-2022, 04:23 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: They haven´t punted on the next two seasons. This is their version of trying to compete on a budget. If they punted on the next two years, they´d pursue a Westbrook deal, clean as much bad cap as possible immediately, signed some young players and rolled with that. 

There is no long-term plan. The only long-term plan I could see is that Cuban is in big financial trouble, can´t even pay the luxury tax, is now milking the team for max profits the next two years before selling the team to balance his finances and let whoever buys the team deal with the Luka trade request.

Jealously here is off the charts with people shitting on a Knicks off-season that could include signing Brunson and Hartenstein, plus acquiring Mitchell. If we did something similar, people here would be planning the parade, instead we have to listen to people acting like McGee is the catch of the off-season.

Refuse to pay Brunson 25 + Thomas Bryant 2 but would pay Brunson 21 + McGee 6. That´s Mavs salary cap math for you.

(07-15-2022, 07:21 PM)radix Wrote:
Bro, do you math?

Cuban is worth 8 billion dollars. He has no financial problems. None.

He is just stingy, conceited and a man child. But financial problems? LOLOLOLOL