TAKE DAT WIT YOU 10/22

[mavsluvr]

This says a lot really. Personally, I feel like Cuban is a heavy part of the problem and has been for quite some time. I take Tim MacMahon with a grain of salt. However, he said on a podcast that Cuban gave Chandler Parsons more say than Donnie over the roster for a couple of years. I believe it. Several of the moves they made back then didn't make sense.

I just think the Mavs front office has been much more of a mess than any of us realized. And for many years now as Cuban has inserted himself more with decisions. I love the Mavs and am a huge Luka fan. But, Cuban puts a bad taste in my mouth with the team.

Thanks, audiosway, good to hear from you, as always. 


I really didn't intend my reply to KL to be particularly negative. If anything, it was a gentle attempt at a little pushback on the idea that there is no hope (perhaps partly for selfish reasons, as I would hate to see one of the board's best posters leave). I actually think having realistic expectations in life is a positive thing, as it avoids setting the expect-or and the expect-ee up for perpetual disappointment when expectations exceed capacity to measure up. 

I have no specific animus toward Kidd or Nico. However, I did find their hires frustrating, in the sense that they were such "Cuban" ways to go. If you have a generational star and are reworking the organization to make the most of it, what do you do? Hire a couple of your buddies, one of whom has a record of failure at the job he is being hired to do, and the other having never done the job before in his life! 
 
Maybe Cuban thinks that, if he is making all the important decisions anyway, what does it matter who he hires? I have been disappointed in the unprofessional way this organization is run for a while now. It's almost like Cubes was a very successful entrepreneur who has been forever stuck in the startup mentality, long after his organization has gotten past that point. Maybe Nico actually does have the expertise to put the operation on to a professional basis, but that will only matter if Cuban allows him to do that. 

Having said all that, I still think that watching the team can be an enjoyable experience, on the whole. I think they are clearly in the upper half of the league as far as winning ability, and we have one of the most exciting young stars on the planet. There is at least a reasonable chance that Kidd and Nico will grow into their jobs and maybe even excel. Even if Cuban never changes, he still does wonderful things for the community, and is far from the league's worst owner. 

Even if this group makes its way to success, I think there are going to be substantial growing pains along the way. But that's an interesting phenomenon in itself, and hopefully we'll all have a decent-to-good time following their progress.