Dameris and Followill on the Presser

[dirkfansince1998]

RE: Cuban's Role

Let's not forget that Cuban had Donnie in place as "President of Basketball Operations" and therefore Cuban himself (though wanting final say or check off) was not the one who was supposed to be organizing what was happening below him. Cuban was PAYING Donnie to run all that and organize all that. Cuban should have had better oversight on what Donnie was up to, but it looks like Donnie was poorly running things.

We had enough examples in the past to know that Cuban did a lot more than just check off. If he would have simply said yes/no to Donnie´s plans this would be a different story. There was no above/below. Just different people that advised Cuban (more often than not guys that aren´t even part of the front office...Schwartz, Fegan, Parsons, Voulgaris).
I really hope that Harrison will have the role you just described. Easy to identify the responsible person and decision maker. Easy to make adjustments. Easy to replace them if they aren´t doing a good job. That was the problem in the past. No matter how good/bad Donnie was. We cannot even judge it. According to the things we learned the Mavs rarely tried to execute Donnie´s plan. That´s also on him because he wasn´t able to convince Cuban/RC/whoever but it shows how difficult it was to work in Mavs front office.