11-10-2023, 02:39 AM
(11-09-2023, 09:36 PM)IamDougieFresh Wrote: Big Rick is owed a massive apology I reckon. Usually got the most out of our terrible rosters. If you have been paying any attention to the Pacers you know that his youngsters are cooking. Mavs simply could not draft during his tenure.
There is definitely an argument to be made that Carlisle was just a good soldier, playing the hand he was dealt and this was literally ALL on Cuban being a complete idiot. The Pacers FO/owner simply constructed the roster in a smarter way than Cuban.
Although I think if given a choice, he´d still prefer a veteran roster. All the rookies the Pacers drafted were on the older ready side. If you gave him the current Mavs roster, I find it highly unlikely Lively starts by the 2nd half of the first game over Holmes/Powell/Kleber/Morris or that Hardy/Green see extended minutes before Curry/Exum.
What makes this so infuriating is that if Cuban tanked properly in 2017/2018, we could have gotten the top odds, the most experienced rookies at the top of the draft were Tatum and Doncic. We keep our 2019 pick and draft in the G. Williams, Thybulle range. We could have had our current roster + Tatum in 2019, but it was totally worth it for the three months of play-off missing winning culture that resulted in signing absolutely nobody in free agency and drafting DSJ.
Cuban has too big an ego to admit he was wrong all along, but nobody is showing up to his leaking building, if he loses Luka, so he finally had to make some forced strategical changes now.