11-18-2025, 10:24 PM
(11-18-2025, 05:38 PM)mvossman Wrote: "Things will return to normal once Nico is run out of Dallas and the Mavs have a future again. Not expecting it any time soon. "
Who would have thought that we were less than a year from both of these things happening?
I remembered this thread when reading that article about the Mavs fans contribution to the firing of Nico. I felt like the original post in this thread so soon after that catastrophic trade was as tone deaf as the folks that pulled the trigger. There is a point as fans where you don't just sit back and take whatever your team is doing. You either bail or you get angry and stay angry and communicate it. I'm kind of proud to be part of a fan base that expressed enough outrage to actually drive real change.
The fans are not the only ones who get credit. Nico does as well - the GM-ing choices he made, when held up to the light of day, made it clear he was in WAYYYYYYY over his head and had no real expertise for the job. And he didn't have the character to hire and utilize people smarter than him, to make him able to ever rise beyond his own level of expertise. The feedback from the whole NBA world on one thing after another made it clear that the emperor in Dallas was grossly butt-naked.