05-08-2021, 12:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-08-2021, 12:29 PM by dirkfansince1998.)
(05-08-2021, 11:25 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: At the time...(pause for emphasis)...Barnes was a pretty good get. We had already had four seasons of futility by then.
Dallas didn't do anything of significance with Duffy for almost 15 years following the Nash fiasco. This is a pretty new phenomenon with him and I don't totally trust it. It might be a marriage of convenience. Maybe Luka wanted to come here. Maybe he hated the idea of going to Sacramento or Atlanta. Who knows.
For years Fish and DLord poo pooed the idea that Schwartz and Fegan were any more "team friendly" toward Dallas than others. When Fish finally asked Donnie, he got the now-famous quote that both of those guys deserved rings for their contributions to the 2011 team. Schwartz is in the agent hall of fame here as far as I'm concerned.
I don´t think signing Barnes was a win for the Mavs. Even at the time. So the agents are basically in the Cuban / Donnie category. No succesful Mavs free agency since the championship. I get that teams have stronger connections with certain agents (Lakers/Clutch) but it is not always a good thing.
Simply not a fan of the MBTs approach, the front office personal and the role of agents. Reeks of nepotism.