10-06-2023, 08:09 AM
(10-06-2023, 07:54 AM)surfpuckmd Wrote: Cuban has some positive qualities as an owner but like Kidd, he seems to make impulsive choices based upon intuition. Kidd was an impulse, emotional choice.
I think this sentence is great. We can see this impulsive choices all over roster construction, imho. For example our two rookies. Both were slotted much lower at the start of the draft process. But, Lively had a great workout and Omax had a great combine. Not saying they are bad picks, just saying those things imho contributed a lot to how Mavs valued them. Similar patterns can be seen in a lot of examples of trading players - Mavs almost always buy high and sell low (KP, Wright,...). They give contract to Delon Wright only to pay to trade him away 9 months later. Wright remains respected role player in the league (Mavs problem was they wanted him to be more than that) and has value on similar deal Mavs gave him. JRich was a similar case. McGee is the latest one - one summer you give the guy a 3 year deal because he is supposed to be a great vet with I don't know how many rings, next summer it is absolutely necessary to dump him whatever it takes. I remember many cases of end of bench guys who got nice deals because they had a "lucky" streak of good minutes (Chriss, Burke,...).