02-14-2022, 11:25 AM
(02-14-2022, 11:03 AM)Not an evil robot Wrote: These conversations are difficult to “watch”. Hard to ask this in a way that doesn’t sound condescending, but have you had much exposure to leadership teams professionally? You seem to have a habit of connecting the reported dots in such an unintuitive way that, while possible, airballs Occam’s Razor.
Take the reported confusion around who to discuss trades with. Nelson was only one of the people apparently negotiating, meaning others were making calls as well (say, Voulgaris). Were those others reporting Nelson, meaning he had leverage to stop them? I believe we have confirmation that those others reported directly to Cuban. If so, that’s on our illustrious owner and an awful organizational structure that he’s ultimately accountable for.
Donnie was the "President of Basketball Operations" and so all basketball related things were supposed to go through him. Guys were going rogue under him. Did Cuban enable that? Absolutely (I have never suggested Cuban is without blame)...but Donnie seems to have failed pretty massively as a leader and president. Donnie was the hands-on, everyday leader of the Mavs organization. Cuban was doing a million other things, especially in recent years when this got really bad.
And yes, for the record, I am the top person in the organization I work for and have been for the last 8.5 years.
Knowing that Cuban was REALLY busy with other things in recent years (Cuban was different early on with DAL as he was much more focused and devoted to the Mavs as his "one thing") and that he had a "President of Basketball Operations" in place, Occam's Razor would suggest that the simplest explanation is that the president failed to lead while at the same time the owner failed to hold the president accountable (or empower the president adequately).