Dameris and Followill on the Presser

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Cuban had a lot of great ideas coming into the league.  Among other things, improving the locker room/arena environment for both home and away teams, improving travel accommodations among other things was a smart way to invest money and keep your own players happy and maybe help other players notice that Dallas wasn't a bad place to play.  The problem is that the rest of the league caught up to this philosophy.  You'd think with his background that he would have led the league in analytics, but everyone largely followed Moery's lead.  Further, player relationships have changed a ton in the LeBron era and the Mavs have been way behind the 8-ball.  Nico is the right step forward but it shouldn't have taken him this long to figure out why he couldn't land free agents.  It might be too late for the Luka era, sadly.  Given the shape of the team, Carlisle being gone is a good thing too (he's just not the right guy for a team in the midst of a rebuild).