02-13-2022, 11:44 PM
(02-13-2022, 09:22 PM)F Gump Wrote: If Donnie had been the GM, every offer would have been funneled to him. That "multiple voices" system, confusing to other teams, was pure MC-as-GM.
I think this is where we diverge.
I see this as evidence not of Cuban-as-GM but of Donnie failing in his role as president. I see how you come to your conclusion, better than I have in the past, but from my seat my intuition still points to a different conclusion.
Are you able to connect me to anything that documents Cuban complaining about not being able to get trades done? (I know if that was a decade ago that may be a hard ask, I just don't remember seeing anything like that)
One final thought:
There might be a world where we are both right since this spans like two decades of time). Maybe there were different periods of time where both of these happened. Maybe MC was truly the GM for stretches of time (like you are saying) while other stretches he was much less engaged and Donnie was supposed to be running things (but not doing so adequately). Just a thought.