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[Scott41theMavs]

So much to disagree with here.

Cuban's failure was that he thought the solution was plan powder (which may have really just been an excuse to be cheap after he got his title) as opposed to accumulating assets.  

We have seen all of the teams that operate under this concept of small windows trying to build super teams as Nico appears to be trying here.  Since the dream team, they have all been failures and left those franchises in disastrous state.  

The teams that succeed have had long processes of building up roster/assets, and the ones who have been really good at have lasted several years.  The Mavs seemed to be on that path.  There would definitely been some concern with replacing Kyrie eventually, but with Luka combined with the quality of asset accumulation we had done the last two years there was still reason to hope.

And if the window is small, tell me how trading Luka for AD helps with that?  We got less talented, less continuity and less overall fit.  

But I probably disagree with your Luka take most of all.  The reason they lost that series is because Boston had significantly more talent (it also didn't help that Kyrie was terrible).  That Boston team was one of the most dominate in NBA history based on net rating.  But Dallas had closed the gap some this offseason, Boston has bigger age concerns and who knows what could happen when you have Luka.

The Mavs lost to the Celtics because 1) Luka was finally worn all the way down after playing hurt for almost the entire playoffs (plays into the "He's never going to get his conditioning right" narrative, but what it shows about his determination belies it), and 2) Kyrie is allergic to leprechauns.