2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[mvossman]

I don't.  Even when Luka demands a trade, Cuban will look for players instead of draft assets.  His hate of losing and impatience limits his ability to win.  It's why the KP move was a bad idea because if the trade was a miss (and it certainly is leaning heavily towards that) it killed any flexibility to course correct.

I can see the dislike for the KP move (especially in hindsight) but on the other hand, when you have an organization that has a terrible history in free agency and a generally poor history in developing through the draft, its hard not to pull the trigger on a potential star for 2 firsts and salary dump, even with a few red flags.  The real problem is that Cuban does not understand his strengths and weaknesses.  Instead of hoarding cap space that he has never been able to use effectively, he should have been accumulating assets for trades, which he sometimes gets right.  I'm more disappointed in the last three years of failure than the KP trade.