2020-2021 ROSTER TALK: Archived

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Yeah. Maybe this was a Donnie thing, or maybe it's a Cuban thing. Maybe BOTH. 

We'll see what this new combination of thinkers does.

Yeah, I think it's likely an issue of both.   Mark has too many coals in the fire to properly oversee a developmental league where only a small percentage of the players will ever be significant NBA contributors.   Donnie didn't have the attention to detail and/or organizational skills.      True to Cuban's entreprenuerial roots, I would liken it to the Mavs a small start up that was run out of the CEOs garage that has now grown into a company of several hundred employees that requires a human resources department, middle managers, a sales team etc.     Now it's a question of getting up to scale.

My thing is that the Plan Powder/Chase Stars vs. Draft and Develop Internally is it should have never been a binary choice of one or the other.    Morey and the Rockets never had a problem doing both.    But things like scouting late round picks and player development have such a poor payoff to time invested ratio, the MBT didn't have the bandwidth for it and just kinda ignored it.   I'm hoping better organizational managers means we can do both.