09-12-2020, 06:06 PM
(09-12-2020, 03:40 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: @"Mavs2019" I'm not disagreeing with your logic or your assessment of any particular player. And I certainly won't stick up for much of what the front office did between 2011 and 2019. However, it's not like they KNEW they were going to be able to draft Luka Doncic, or that he'd be this good, this soon.Not knowing that you will actually find a superstar in the draft is not exactly a good argument for not trying to find top talent in FA. Should use both options.
That's all I'm saying: that high priced role players don't make sense until you KNOW what you're building around.
Guys like Lavine, Smart, Randle or Nurkic were so young at that point, that they also had 2nd or 3rd star potential. All of them have improved since then, too. It was a unique situation. Actually pretty similar to the strong up-coming 2021 RFA class.
Its the irony of all ironies that the one season the Mavs hooked the white whale, he was completely stinking rotten and they could have sipped caviar with their bargain bin strategy.
I still can´t express how much I hated the Jordan deal. He was never worth losing your self-respect. Furthermore I said Harrell was the better player every freaking day and twice on Sunday, probably three times, when he signed the 12/2 extension. I still have to chuckle at how proud and happy Cuban was that he "stole" DAJ from Jerry West.
