(09-05-2022, 10:16 PM)F Gump Wrote: Nah, it's not over-correction. It's Cuban finding himself in a new financial reality that he can't handle.
He will pay enough to fund a so-so team. That means spending at the cap, and sometimes a bit more. In that world, mistakes don't matter because the overall spending is easy to justify. But good teams cost way more, and at that level with tax issues, even small mistakes get expensive.
I find it interesting Cuban doesn't demand of himself the same attention to basics he expects from the companies on Shark Tank. If you don't know your business, the uncertainty of how to make it work gets scary. But he has always tried to shortcut the basics with the Mavs, and his continuing refusal to hire an expert at evaluating and negotiating and developing now has him too timid to spend more money, because he can't trust the decision-making on who to sign.
Cuban's as much of a blowhard as the other billionaires he loathes.
I'll continue to say that 2011 is the best and worst thing to ever happen to the franchise. Dirk and company go their well deserved ring but it also reinforced to Cuban that he was the smartest guy in the room and that he can succeed doing things his way. It's Jerry Jones syndrome minus the charisma and salesmanship.
And if it is true that he's going to be cheap with the team's payroll, we might as well stop worrying about Luka leaving because that is almost assuredly going to happen sooner rather than later. And that too might be the best and worst thing to happen to the franchise as it would be the best chance of Cuban being bored of his toy or taking a long, hard look in the mirror and getting out of the way of basketball operations.
And speaking of Sterling and Shark Tank, it's too bad the league didn't come down on the Mavericks/Cuban harder during all the sexual harassment fallout. How he got to skate by pleading ignorance of that side of the house the league turning a blind eye that's almost as shameful as Mark's.
(09-05-2022, 11:14 PM)Jym Wrote: I do find it interesting how freaked out people are with the PG rotation when Dinwiddie is better than the 2021-22 Brunson we were expecting going into the last season. Brunson just totally blew expectations out of the water
Sure I'd like Conley. That's probably the best bet we have at recreating some of that guard magic from last year without giving up a ton.
I'm most curious how we'll end up using the bigs and how Wood & Maxi are going to end up meshing. I think it's going to be huge for them to play well together and for us to play plenty of big lineups with one PG
I just worry about giving Dinwiddie that much of a workload and expecting his health to hold up. We also saw how great it was to have a three headed, ballhandling monster and have seemingly walked away from that.
Wood's super exciting to me though. I always dreamed of pairing Luka with an Amar'e type player.