03-12-2021, 10:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-12-2021, 11:27 PM by KillerLeft.)
(03-12-2021, 10:02 PM)Jason Terry Wrote: We’ve seen that movie before. Snip snap. Donnie fired. Donnie re-hired. If we want to be real about this franchise the person that must have their place is Cuban. He isn’t Jerry. He has recent skins on the wall and he’s more concerned with winning than brand. He has plenty of $ too. So all that gives us a competitive advantage. He’s not Dolan either. All he wants is to be part of it all. He’s just a fan like us. One thing that’s overlooked is how much he used to party with players. Today though that has ended. My point is that the “negative” of Cuban these days is we still can’t hire just ANY GM or coach. There’s still a bit of that “needs to fit with Mark”. But not in a championship hindering way like Jerry. More personality. Rick has a tremendous record(we are having trouble finding a single player he mismanaged over 13 years!). Donnie is the one with the questionable record, yet he was on both the Luka AND Giannis bandwagons before either amounted to anything. IMO, Donnie must step up and show his ability to evaluate(with the best help money can buy) euro players who want to play with Luka. We need to have the best connections in that market and bring in underrated talent every year
He gets way too much credit for Giannis and Doncic. I'm sorry. first of all we didn't draft Giannis so big freaking deal. Second we were tied last on Christmas of the Luka draft, so if Donnie really knew what kind of a talent Luka was, we'd have had the best lottery odds not tied 4th and then dumb-lucked into Luka through the backdoor. That also cost us an unnecessary future 1st that could have gone toward building a championship contender.