2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[F Gump]

So my take at this time:

Donnie ran a completely inept organization. He was the president of basketball operations but did not function as such as far as leading and streamlining everything. There was never one single voice from the organization coming from the president. Because of this many, MANY voices could get to and were trying to get to Cuban. Donnie, RC, Bob, Fegan, Parson, etc were all jockeying for power. Cuban had many competing voices in his ear and not a single organized voice and so he didn't know what to listen to. 

This IS Cuban's fault. He should have seen the dysfunction and stopped it. But he let it persist. But it didn't happen because he wanted to make decisions on his own. He WAS listening to people, but just didn't know who to listen to in the chaos. AND he was too involved with many other side projects. He needed to be MORE involved in the Mavs OR just let another voice make the calls. 

I totally disagree with you on what you think you see - it feels that you are trying to rewrite the history to suit your chosen narrative.

Prior to Nico, once Nellie left, Cuban was the GM. Not only did Donnie answer to him, but he also BY HIS DESIGN did the same setup with his other major players. MC hired them, they gave input to MC, and they answered to MC. The reason that Donnie was only one voice among many wasn't because DN was lax but rather because they were not his subordinates. It was a world in which there was a "team" approach to big decisions, with all giving input to MC who would then make the call. IOW he was doing what any GM does.

There was never much question that's how it worked, but it wasn't made apparent to fandom until the chaos hit. Once some of it leaked, no one hid it, and if you don't see it now, you're in denial bro.

If there was jockeying for power as you term it, it wasn't because DN was lazy, but rather because that's the way MC designed his company. MC felt he could, with the right helpers, be The League's Best GM, and when Nellie left, he had just as much experience as anyone else in the building at doing that job, so that's what he did. Very badly.

Cuban created the dysfunction with his setup. It lasted because he thought he just needed one more voice. Plus another. Plus another. Etc.

It looks like he finally hired someone instead of himself who will be The GM, with Nico (who oddly was chosen despite no experience at the job), but we'll see.