06-03-2021, 05:45 PM
(06-03-2021, 04:35 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Let me show you what this FO has done.
Luka Doncic
Larry Hughes
Drew Gooden
Zydrunas Ilgauskas
Anderson Varejao
Eric Snow
Sasha Pavlovic
Damon Jones
Donyell Marshall
Daniel Gibson
You want a reminder what happened three years later in 2010.
Luka has the individual talent to lead a team to 5+ championships. The question is does he have the front office, too?
Hey man, that roster made the finals and call me crazy, I would be ecstatic if our roster made it that far.
That roster is a fair comparison because that roster is obviously not as far along as the generational talent that franchise happened to land which is a very good problem to have. We are in year THREE of our rebuild and doing what we're doing. If you're going to worry about something that could happen in 3 years (in our case, Luka will be in the middle of a 5 year record extension at that point) then I don't know what to tell you.
Dan Gilbert and Danny Ferry didn't cash in, no doubt. But I don't understand how anyone can watch us operate through the Dirk years and think that this franchise isn't going to do everything in it's power to try every combination out there to keep our franchise player happy. Also, it's just weird that people are already jumping to this conclusion over a 22 year old kid who has shown zero sign of being upset here.
Look, I know you'll chirp back because you got a lot to say (and honestly there's plenty of things I agree with, I think Lavine should be a target for us) but dude...I feel bad for you. I've never seen you write a single positive thing about this team. We're in the middle of experiencing history right now and I'm worried you're depriving yourself of that. This could be the very very very very beginning of something fantastic and there's just too many people (more than 0 meets that definition) who are acting like this is the end of the road.
It's all just strange to me, I used to be hyper critical during the Dirk years and looking back I think I didn't allow myself to just enjoy the ride of a team that won a TON of NBA games and a front office that constantly showed a lot of creativity when it came to roster construction during an era that had a lot of competition towards the top. I'm deliberating choosing this time around to roll down the window and really take in the fact that there is a incredibly real possibility that the future of the league is wearing a Mavericks jersey at the moment and seeing what happens next.