02-11-2022, 02:04 PM
(02-11-2022, 01:58 PM)cow Wrote: The frustration is how the Mavericks operate as they don't do a lot well from a team building standpoint. We only seem to have one pillar as a strength for what is required for team building: drafting, trading, recruiting, asset management, development/retention. The last being what we are best at. All the rest are highly suspect.
SUPER great point, and super clear way of wording it. I agree.
I guess I just don't view this deal (to desperately try to get out from under a huge mistake of the past decision makers) as an indication that all of that will definitely not improve. I get that Cuban is still here and we have reason to believe it was all his fault in the past. Why would anything change, right? I get that, and share that skepticism.
I just think I see a glimmer of change here and there, and I think there's a possibility that the upcoming moves (what they do from here) might be solid, and maybe surprisingly solid. After all, I would've bet $1 million that I don't have on the idea that Kidd was going to suck as a coach, but Cuban/Harrison seem to have gotten that right.
I honestly feel in my bones that the Mavs simply admitting that KP had to go, no matter what, is encouraging. Only in the most mild sense of the word, but still.