12-22-2025, 11:48 PM
(12-22-2025, 06:32 PM)mvossman Wrote: Is it possible this organization will not navigate that situation correctly and greatly delay the long term in a short sighted grab at the short term? I think the answer is yes.
Having a fire sale with Luka (running away from presumed disaster ahead, and being desperate to make a trade no matter what) is what landed the Mavs where they are. Please, not again. There is no rush, and they need to wait until the market for AD and others is STRONG before they let talent go. For now, they are only getting junk offers, and that won't change until teams believe the Mavs are not in a hurry to move players for whatever they can get.
Acting quickly - just to act quickly - is a recipe for more bad moves.
And getting changes over with, in a hurry, doesn't help avoid the potential for horrendous mistakes. If the new MBT cannot navigate the right moves (as you want to assume), then you are forcing the ones you have declared to be incompetent to increase their impact by actively being the ones to make more moves. And then you will have to be tasking these incompetents to move forward and build a winner, using their incompetence to do it.
The ONLY wise way to move forward is to get a MAJOR talent running the show, as well as severely minimizing any opportunity for huge blunders before he arrives.