(01-22-2024, 11:10 PM)F Gump Wrote: If you think I'm wrong, let me know what the answer is.
(01-22-2024, 11:55 PM)Scott41theMavs Wrote: How about a competent NBA coach?
If Luka had gone 1st or 2nd in that draft, as he should have, where would the Mavs be today? Top of the dumpster heap along with the Wizards, Pistons and Hornets, IMO, and changing the coach would not help.
I think the correct answer is to get a different owner than Cuban. Someone who does not meddle or try to build the team according to his belief of what a contending roster should look like, cause Cuban's vision of that sucks.
Or... the Adelson/Dumont family should step in and hire a competent GM (like Rob Pelinka), and insist that Cuban stays completely out of his way. Rob Pelinka would be an amazing get for this team, to be honest, as valuable as drafting Luka.
Then they need to start building a proper scouting, video and analytics department, and coaching staff. Please don't tell me that the Mavs have proper versions of any of these... they simply don't. The LA Lakers are great at those things... and that is why trades and other stuff keep "falling into their lap", as some like to say. The Lakers aren't the only Cali/LA based team, so it's not location. They make their own luck because they're good at what they do. On the other hand, the Mavs have always been winging it but pretending to be smarter than they are, like Cuban. A chip of the old block, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. And that is why NOTHING has fallen into the Mavs' laps for years and years. Except for that one time in band camp when they got super fortunate and the Hawks decided to trade Luka for a midget.
F Gump Wrote:The outcome on G Williams is probably my biggest issue. He hasn't really filled any hole.
G-Will is a player with a big body to throw at Giannis in the playoffs, i.e., if the two teams ever meet each other. Kind of like how the Spurs used Malik Rose on Shaq. If anyone had higher hopes for him than that, like if they thought he could be the starting PF next to Luka at SF, well, that was never going to happen.
(01-23-2024, 11:58 AM)youzigizag Wrote: 4 wasted years of Luka.
This is actually Luka's 6th year in the NBA, not his 4th or 5th. Sorry, I know, that makes it worse.