(11-11-2025, 01:16 PM)burekemde Wrote: This is like admitting the trade was horrible. Which it was, historically bad in fact, its hard to find a worse move than this. This is going to get much worse result wise for Mavs after this. The owner does not believe in the current roster, and the players morale will just get worse. If players believed the team got better, now for sure they know it didnt.I think this will affect the team really badly going forward. The best way to deal with this is keep making trades and brining in players that will believe in the newly designed roster. Start all over.
Admitting what everyone already knew, including the players, is the right move. From afar, team morale felt off to start of the season and the record out of the gate didn't help things out as fans quickly shifted back to "Fire Nico" after the brief high of lucking into Cooper Flagg. Going from competing for a championship to the chaos of last season and now seemingly a bottom feeder is going to lead to poor morale and firing the guy that architected that, save for the injuries, probably isn't going to make things worse. That's not to say that things can't get worse, but Nico wasn't going to turn this around. Another GM might be able to or at least start the process (pun intended).