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[F Gump]

With all due respect (and you deserve a lot), OMax wasn't a miss as seen with his play this year. They just didn't develop him correctly, which is on Kidd, not the front office. The miss was dumping him instead of Exum, but even I would have done that at the time.

Either the Mavs have a "development program" or they don't. And if they don't, that's on the people who are in charge of the whole big picture. And if they don't integrate it with the coach, that's on the people who are in charge of the entire picture as well as the development person in charge. That's their job! The game of everyone saying "it's not my job" doesn't fly.

I actually think Kidd has done a reasonably credible job in integrating the prospects into the lineup and trying to get something out of them. He played OMax a reasonable number of minutes (and would have played him more, if he didn't get hurt at a very unfortunate time.)  But Omax has only played 500-ish minutes in MEM so far, he played even a bit more last season in DAL, and while here there's no question that when he played he couldn't shoot worth a lick. From anywhere, even FTs. He would turn down shots at times. Now in MEM he suddenly can shoot from everywhere and at a high rate? (That tells me something significant is missing in the development program in DAL.) 

With OMax, it's also possible we are looking at a small sample size thing, where the numbers are skewed because the great results are primarily against teams who are tanking their butts off. And maybe he's j-a-g. In which case, it's on the Mavs for picking the wrong guy in the first place.

But no matter how we got there, the Mavs got crap value for that pick. That's on the Mavs.

And my point is that the Mavs FO has to be able to have a plan, figure out how to turn "draft pick" into the right name, who then is trained in the right way, until they eventually have some real value. And it doesn't seem like they have that figured out at all, when the guy in the middle of it is Riccardi.

I want an expert.