2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

[ClutchDirk]

Since the championship, the issue with this team has always been lack of talent.  Carlisle has generally gotten more out of this team than what should reasonably be expected.  The real problem is I don't think the talent issue is primarily Donnie.  I think it's been more of a Cuban issue, starting with plan powder culminating in the decision to trade down and draft Larkin to save cap space instead of getting Donnie's pick Giannis.  I think all the star chasing (for guys who turned out not to be stars) is primarily Cuban driven including that disastrous Rondo trade.  It's been a lot better the last couple of years when it seems like Cuban has backed off some, but there still have been hints of the past like the star chasing for Kemba (which like the others would probably been a mistake) and then the inability (unwillingness) to spend the cap space you made from dumping Barnes.  I feel like Cuban has maybe been our worst enemy and the more he backs off and lets Donnie and Rick work the better off we will be.

Also, this kind of talk feels like a bit of an over reaction to a bad loss against our probably worst matchup without our second best player.  The real mistake here is we don't know how to rest players correctly.  We should have played Maxi against SA (which probably would have been a win) and rested everybody in this game.  There have been several times where we have gotten cute with resting players and lost games we should not have.  I hope we get that shit fixed soon as it is costing us games we cant afford.

You should post more often...I enjoy reading your posts...