08-07-2021, 03:06 PM
(08-07-2021, 01:52 PM)soog Wrote: Read them all.I get that, at the point I posted my first thought, there was very little discussion/input, I see some now since.
This is not the same exercise. We have more complete information now then we did then. We can complain that the Mavs didn’t sign Lowry, Lonzo, CP3, or Connelly, but now we know that none of them were truly available. I was in favor of pursuing Lonzo, but now I see he had already picked Chicago so I have to pivot. I liked Powell but he already had a deal lined up to return to Portland. It looks like Fournier and Kemba were available, but I don’t like either of them on the Mavs, so I have to be ok with THJ.
What I’m attempting to do is have a conversation where we stop going through the same exercise from the last several months where we had complete information; I’m trying to have a new conversation with complete information where instead of complaining about our pipe dreams that had ZERO chance of happening, we discuss possible plan B’s that we would have liked more.
Let’s imagine we’re in the War room, it’s 5:01pm on Monday, we get off the phone with the agents of the top 4 FA PGs and they are going elsewhere, what do we do?
Sounds like a lot of people here would have quit their GM jobs then and there because they failed at Plan A.
This is still what I posted last. A chance for the boo birds to poo poo on every thought.
Let’s say, you as the GM wanted as you said Lonzo Ball as your top priority, beyond Kawhi or Lowry. What if before the rumors about Dallas being interested in Collins, you as the GM leak Ball as your top priority? You then pick up the phone and tamper like Chi did and sell him saying he is your top and only priority and you get your sell on and sell him on why he should come to the Mavs.
I think there is a better chance at getting him as opposed to going after Kawhi, then Lowry and so on. So this exercise becomes way too much of an alternate universe where the rules apply selectively.
Also, as demonstrated, tampering says this exercise starts way before 5:01pm on Monday.