06-24-2022, 01:20 PM
(06-24-2022, 01:05 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: C) It doesn't appear that he thinks very much of draft picks to begin with - he hasn't for a LONG time. Now, you can convince me that Harrison and other new blood might be attempting to change that thinking, but I don't think the organization's approach (for which Cuban is the bottom line) is going to do a 180º turn overnight.
I don't think you and I are directly disagreeing. Since Nico was hired there has been much tea leaf reading about 'how much power does he actually have'/'how much is the way the Mavs operate going to change or is it still Cuban micro-managing and doing the things that didn't work for the last 10 years'. And some people (not you) immediately jumped on the deal as *proof* that the Mavs still weren't willing to spend money.
My point was (and is) that this deal doesn't prove anything like that--yeah, it can be fit to the 'old' MBT patterns. It can also be fit to the idea that Nico is the actual GM *and* that Nico knows what he's doing on the business side of things (a separate question from whether Hardy was a good or the right choice, something I don't know enough to have an opinion on at this point)