POWELL THREAD

[fifteenth]

The issue with guys like Harris, Karralla, Followill is that they’re Mavs‘ employees. They’ll never say things as bluntly as guys who aren’t getting paid by the Mavs. Just a conflict of interest.

But they all do what is expected from them pretty well. The locked on-guys for instance put out stuff pretty much daily iirc. That’s a lot of time to fill with Mavs-talk.

What you're saying is true if you're looking for criticism when the Mavs are screwing up in some way. But the payoff is if you want some bball talk that is going to include clues and be informed by what the team is actually thinking. 

Interestingly, guys that aren't employed by the team like Jake Kemp or Brad Townsend interact with these team guys and usually aren't all that far off from them on what they think the team is doing.