Mavs have a leadership problem | Cuban and Harlabob argue on Twitter

[KillerLeft]

I also don't think I'm picking Luka apart with my criticisms.  He's a basketball savant and has all the potential in the world.  It just makes a lot of his antics all the more frustrating.  

I don't think you are, either, and I agree! That was my whole point! I think we've all noticed the same problems (as evidenced by this thread), it's just that there are differing views of what should or even can be done about it, which is to be expected. 

I DEFINITELY think Luka should be held accountable for the things that hurt the team. TEAM success is the point, after all. It's someone's job to hold everyone on the team accountable to a standard. Is Luka's immaturity and status making that job more difficult? Maybe? Probably? Who knows?! But, that's the job. 

All I'm saying is that I don't think Luka now, today, is definitely representative of who 26 year old Luka is going to be. In fact, with much, much experience with those age groups professionally, I can almost promise you he's going to change just as much during these next few years as you'd expect someone to grow from say, age 10 to 16, or 16-21. It's just harder to notice unless your professional livelihood is wrapped up into depending up on it, because it's all about how they think. 

I'm just saying that him having these problems now, frustrated as we might be with them, is not a thing that should motivate us in a "he'll never be able to do it" direction. I'm not saying that as any direct rebuttal to something you said, it's just that I think the general tone of the board and Mavs fans is starting a slow trend towards losing faith that Luka is really the phenom we were all sure he was 18 months ago. I think that's the wrong way to analyze the problem, personally.