TAKE DAT WIT YOU 8/20

[mavsluvr]

My reasons:

1) My experience over the years tells me that GMs almost always put their significant "stamp" on the roster within the first two offseasons they are around. 

2) Chad Ford predicting that Nico would do this not this offseason, but at the TDL and next offseason.

3) Cuban stating that he wants a second star and assuming such an acquisition will "gut" the current roster.

4) My belief that KP will not prove to be a much better fit this year.


My desire is for this team to compete as soon as possible, my desire does not care whether that comes through a major overhaul or not.

Okay, then. Perhaps we will see Nico blowing it up and maybe raising the roster a level, immediately or eventually. In terms of trying to read the tea leaves, it seems to me that reasonable arguments can be made that they either are or aren't heading into a major overhaul. Donnie said that the Mavs planned to be very aggressive in free agency this summer, and then they proved to be very conservative, so I don't know if that represents a change in focus or whether Nico just needs some time to learn the job. 

The Mavs got two votes on Basketball News' debate on which team made the worst use of its offseason. I have to say, I pretty much see their points. 

[b]Jackson Frank:[/b] It’s the Dallas Mavericks for me. They didn’t get substantially better in an offseason when they touted lots of cap space and resemble a very similar team to last year. They still need a secondary creator to aid Luka Doncic. The wing defense is lackluster. The center rotation is worrisome. This just felt like a considerable misstep, given Luka’s superstardom and the financial flexibility drying up moving forward.

[b]Ethan Fuller:[/b] Portland could win this off of the Chauncey Billups hiring (and subsequent fallout) alone, and I'm sure some of our fellow writers picked the Trail Blazers. So I'll add another team in the Dallas Mavericks, whose offseason consisted of a front-office blowup, three minor roster additions headlined by Reggie Bullockand the hiring of Jason Kidd as head coach. Kidd not only was convicted of domestic abuse in 2001 — and has done little publicly to atone for it — but he also has a 183-190 record as the head coach of talented teams. And there is anecdotal evidence of a problematic past in Milwaukee. It's hard for a team to regress with a rising star, but that seems to be what the Mavs are doing despite Luka Doncic's ascension.

https://www.basketballnews.com/stories/r...-offseason