06-22-2021, 12:02 AM
(06-21-2021, 09:42 PM)F Gump Wrote: Well, not really.While I agree that the buck stops with Cuban and he has his hands in pretty much everything, the overwhelming blame you seem to be laying at his feet is almost impossible.
Sometimes, he assigned himself to be on the front line too, but he was ALWAYS the one making the deals and running the show. Who would they target, how much would they offer, how would they try to get to yes, who would do what tasks, who would make the formal pitch to player and agent (if anyone), those were all decided by Cuban.
He's had helpers, to be sure. He's used them in varying ways. But when they have been doing anything major, and anything smaller that can somehow impact anything major, he's always been the real decision maker. We've all seen it play out over and over and over and over, and on a somewhat regular basis it has become very noticeable (as much as he runs his mouth, it's hard to miss, frankly), but no one has cared to focus on that micro-managing and the problems it has created, enabled, and made ongoing. Because, how can it be fixed - like with Jerry, the ego means he's not going to fire himself.
It hasn’t been Cuban sitting in his office on trade machines figuring things out then barking orders and exact details to his loyal underlings. Those guys had a HUGE hand in shaping the direction this team would go with everything. Yes, there were times Cuban went rogue and made sure his idea was THE idea, but that wasn’t with everything.