08-05-2021, 01:45 PM
I am not the biggest Chad Ford fan (don't hate him either) but he was on one of the Mavs podcasts after they hired Nico and Kidd. One of the things he said that I disagreed with was he thought Nico would not make a ton of moves and would rather take his time and evaluate things and look to next year to make moves after evaluating everything.
Now, they went obviously hard after Lowry and moves next year will need to be done without cap room. Although it certainly appears they are taking a more cautious approach by not throwing large amounts of money around to new players.
I disagree with this strategy, but Ford looks like he was right. This was also the podcast where they shared audio from the 2020 draft and Ford was right on with the dysfunction in our front office on disagreement on picks. This was on that draft night and he was a year before the Cato article.
Now, they went obviously hard after Lowry and moves next year will need to be done without cap room. Although it certainly appears they are taking a more cautious approach by not throwing large amounts of money around to new players.
I disagree with this strategy, but Ford looks like he was right. This was also the podcast where they shared audio from the 2020 draft and Ford was right on with the dysfunction in our front office on disagreement on picks. This was on that draft night and he was a year before the Cato article.