07-16-2021, 02:21 PM
(07-16-2021, 01:45 PM)jesusshuttlesworth82 Wrote: I dont understand how you dont understand what Cuban and Jerry Jones are doing is VASTLY DIFFERENT from most owners.
A real GM will go to an owner and say "hey we're about to trade for this guy with a big contract? is that ok with you financially?" Or "Mr. Buss Kobe and Shaq cant get along. We have to trade one. Your thoughts on which one?"
For the Mavericks, 90% of the organization puts in the leg work and decides Saddiq Bey should be the pick. Then Bob whispers to Cuban and Green is the pick blindsiding everyone.
Or the GM puts in the legwork to sign Andre Iguodala. Then Cuban decides at the last second he wants to show cartoons to Dwight Howard instead.
Donnie puts in the legwork to draft Giannis. Then Cuban decides he needs the cap space to pursue a free agent.
Because I don't think the evidence is there that Cuban IS like Jerry. Just don't think the data points that way.
And you can take what evidence we do have and construct the narrative above, but I do not think that is accurate. I think that is a biased construction that paints Cuban as the villain.
We have NEVER seen Cuban alongside another GM and we have 13 years of the same coach too. Those things just changed. We will all know the truth pretty quickly. If things go the same the only constant is Cuban (and you will be right and I will be wrong). But if things get massively better then we know that the problem was Donnie/RC and not Cuban (and I will be right and you will be wrong).
Time will tell. Time will reveal the real narrative and the real issues.