07-10-2022, 04:15 PM
(07-10-2022, 07:00 AM)Kammrath Wrote: 1) Less than 48 hours ago I wrote about the Mavs failure to tank properly:
2) I have read your points that you have been restating in multiple threads. I find them completely uncompelling.
3) All I was attempting to do with my comment about "smartest guy in the room" was to point out the "pot calling the kettle black" situation going on. You constantly attack Cuban's arrogance in this forum. Fine, he may be arrogant because he thinks his way is clearly the only right way. That might be true.
If you worked for the Mavs front office that would be very different because you would have access to knowledge and details we don't have as fans. But we are just fans. Our knowledge is incredibly limited. We need the humility to see that. There is so much we simply do not know.
4) You could be right in all this. I just don't think we have enough to know for sure. The failure to execute a SnT might be a terrible sign of things to come. Could be. But I don't think we can be certain.
You criticized those in the current Mavs front office once? Congrats. I didn't see that purple unicorn, I guess.
You already KNEW the point I was making, had seen it explained several times, and yet asked me to explain it to you AGAIN? Disagree with me, that's your right, but being trollish like that is rude.
Yes I know the rules and how they work. They are what they are. If you feel that's arrogant to speak to their implications, rather than being diligent and aware, so be it.
The point you make about me not knowing what the Mavs are planning, sure I don't pretend to know what I don't know, but that's irrelevant to this opportunity for the Mavs -- its value isn't dependent on knowing what's up this second. It's gathering an asset that's available and usable for a full year (and sometimes longer), versus not bothering to do so, when there is no cost, almost no effort whatsoever, and no downside to having it. If it could only be used in a few weeks, and only on X type of situation, I could kinda see your point, but when it goes beyond the current horizon, it would take a certain myopia to limit its appeal to what you can see this second. Things can change considerably or arise over the next 365 days in ways no one knows right now.