(06-26-2025, 05:40 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Although, if that is the case you have your decision that you were not going to resign Grimes.

(06-26-2025, 05:46 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I agree with your post - it's quite reasonable. 

But, I think it's important to remind ourselves that they DID want to keep Grimes, and in fact offered him a deal. He turned it down, and they apparently didn't see eye to eye with him about either his perceived self-worth, contractually, his role or (probably) both (higher salaries and offensive responsibility tend to go hand in hand). 

I don't know that this is a distinction that will change anyone's mind about that deal, but it does seem like they had a carefully considered idea of what he was worth to them, and that wasn't "nothing." It just wasn't a fit here.

(06-26-2025, 05:46 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I think it's important to remind ourselves that they DID want to keep Grimes, and in fact offered him a deal. He turned it down, and they apparently didn't see eye to eye with him about either his perceived self-worth, contractually, his role or (probably) both (higher salaries and offensive responsibility tend to go hand in hand). 

(06-26-2025, 06:07 PM)Razzmatazz_Hopskidillydoo Wrote: Applies to Brunson too.
We know how that turned out.

(06-26-2025, 09:21 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Mavs(New)CBA (@CBAMavs)
On the @DLLS_Mavs show, @bobbykaralla and @TheSteinLine both said they’d prefer Russell Westbrook over D’Angelo Russell. Specifically because he’s a better current player.

(06-26-2025, 09:21 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Mavs(New)CBA (@CBAMavs)
On the @DLLS_Mavs show, @bobbykaralla and @TheSteinLine both said they’d prefer Russell Westbrook over D’Angelo Russell. Specifically because he’s a better current player.

(06-26-2025, 04:02 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Totally agree with this point. I don't want to sound like a homer, but I have recently adopted sort of a "clean slate" approach to my expectations of Harrison and my Mavs fandom has become much more enjoyable. While I reserve the right to fly off the handle if/when he does something I think is ridiculous, I'm no longer expecting it, and it's fun to follow the team again. Much more hopeful. We have no control over that part, after all. 

Ironically, I've noticed that the vast majority of the people who can't stand Harrison actually AGREE with his basketball philosophies more than I do. My issues with him are more about how little he values offensive creation and how much he values size - I think both are important, but his ratios seem bananas to me. I've noticed that many of those who are super down on him are the same who are hoping the Mavs employ 9-10 centers on their 15-man roster, which seems to be how he sees the game, too. No real takeaway to suggest there, I just thought it was kind of funny.

(06-26-2025, 06:11 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: With respect, I think that's totally different. Brunson actually IS the player Grimes wants to be/thinks he is. And, Brunson had been steadily becoming that player, making no secret of it, steadily becoming more and more crucial here as he went. THAT ONE is totally indefensible, in my opinion, but it happened on Cuban's watch. I'm not saying Harrison would've done anything different, and he was the GM, but it was done with Cuban being the guy who decides what remuneration level is appropriate for each player. 

I get the point you're making about the approach relative to Grimes, but Grimes is NOT going to be made the featured offensive player in anyone's system. His next team is going to hope they can get him to do exactly what Dallas wanted him to do, and probably what Detroit wanted before that. For all the talk of his defense coming into last season (much of which I participated in) he seemed pretty uninterested in making that his calling card during his time here. I wasn't thrilled with his effectiveness on that side of the ball, personally, reputation be damned.

Brunson is EXACTLY who he set out to be. If the Mavs had Brunson on the roster right now, they'd be my favorites to win the West.

Losing Brunson for nothing was worse than the Luka trade, imho. I will probably never get over that one.

(06-27-2025, 10:11 AM)F Gump Wrote: Wondering: if the Mavs fired Nico, what do we think about Masai Ujiri as a replacement?

(06-27-2025, 09:59 AM)mvossman Wrote: I'm in the minority.  I think we are on the same page regarding centers, and I think its silly to play AD at the 4 more than a couple of minutes a game.  I think the best way to balance the roster it to send out one of the centers (including AD) in a trade.  

As for Nico, I prefer to brace myself for what is very likely to happen.  He has done nothing to warrant a clean slate.  Two of his biggest wins are rewards for incompetence (Flagg and Lively).  Now that he is traded away all of the future draft picks, he can't me rewarded for incompetence again.