(09-29-2020, 03:08 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Regardless of how you feel about him, you can't hold anything that happened between 2011 and last season against him. You just can't.
That job should've been done by a first year head coach who was happy to have a toehold in the business, not one of the most respected coaches in all of sports. They had NO chance of winning. It was a (badly mishandled) rebuild. Carlisle basically (knowingly) jumped between the machine gun fire and the front office by staying here, and THIS portion of the rebuild (post Luka draft pick) is undeniably farther along as a result of him being in place already.
If he had left when any other established guy would have, we'd be reading RIGHT NOW about how the Mavs had fired their young, developmental coach because with Luka, they think it's time to think playoffs, and they probably wouldn't have just experienced the first such season. They'd be hoping to get a Ty Lue, a D'Antoni, etc, and while those guys might be great, next year would be year ONE. I would argue that they'd be at least 2-3 years behind where they'll be next year, and probably with someone not as good as Carlisle.
We are LUCKY he's here.
I can´t follow your line of thought. We were rebuilding since 2011? I thought we were contending? I guess that sums up the lost decade of the MBT. We can´t even decide WTF that was supposed to be.
