09-26-2021, 02:20 PM
(09-26-2021, 01:51 PM)cow Wrote: Overblown or not, we are looking down the barrel of that gun. Team building matters, like in my San Antonio example, and that is one thing the Mavericks have proven to be very inept at.
"looking down the barrel of that gun" <-- pro sports fact of life
Are we still talking about "feeling different"? In my opinion, this is not really all that new. Maybe this old man syndrome is more about being old then about sports changing. But I don't know...the younger one's around here pretty much assume everything sucks and will always suck. Those guys are going to be a blast when they're our age!
The inept Mavs have a top 4 to 6 team in the West this year. If the new regime doesn't move the team to true contender in 4 years there is a chance Luka leaves.
That seems kinda like a pro sports fact of life too. In basketball they choose to leave. In baseball you trade them away for propects.
Hey, the NFL is different. You can keep your stars by signing them for forever, on big contracts, and then you can't build a team because you're strapped. And your players decline quickly after you sign them anyway.
Sports is just hard.
I'm going to be hopeful and happy and predict that the Mavs will build a contender over the next four years. I'm probably wrong, but that's ok.
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