06-16-2021, 12:50 PM
(06-16-2021, 12:15 PM)DallasBasketball Wrote: PATIENCE. Where in the world is everyone’s patience? The world is mad.
The performance of the FO the last few off seasons is over criticized. It’s too early in Luka’s career to claim Mavs FO is a failure.
#1 - Prior to Luka we had to get bad to get a shot at a star in the draft and we got that star.
#2 - In all those years of being bad we only ended up with a few quality players. Finney-Smith, Powell, Kleber, Brunson. But this is not a horrible performance, we also flipped DSJ to NY.
#3 - We have only had two off seasons since Luka joined the Mavs. What does the world expect to be accomplished in 3 seasons and 2 off-seasons?
- season 1 - trade for KP and THJ - this has not turned out as good as we hoped, but it was a great trade.
- off season 1 - We had cap space and it was time. But KP hadn’t played and Luka was under appreciated as a draw. Stupid Kemba chose the Celtics. This was not bad strategy. If you want to claim bad strategy, it was the choice not to sign other talented players and instead play plan powder. THIS is so far the only real bad strategy factor for the FO. But they salvaged by signing Finney, Kleber and Seth to good deals, as well as Wright who was not a bad player but did not work out. The problem here again wasn’t missing on Kemba or signing Wright, it was choosing dry powder over all the other alternatives.
- season 2 - it’s Luka’s first season running the team. And you have the #1 offense in the league. Is it a failure not to make a move?
- off season 2 - Free Agency was not that great. Plan powder is already in action and Giannis is on the horizon. In hindsight this is a mistake. But Monday morning quarterbacks are always right. We tried to position ourselves for a grand slam. Is this a failure? Sure. But is the game over? No! Trading Curry for Richardson and going all defense also was a bad offseason. The team did not get any better and I am willing to question the FO on this. Not just dry powder but a wasted off-season in terms of strategy.
- season 3 - a trade? Trade KP? Maybe. But his asset value was probably too low. Is trading for jj reddick mis-management? Is buying a Starbucks coffee bad finances? It’s inconsequential for the most part.
Here we are; the 3rd offseason of Luka’s career and Mavs are being hung out for 10 years of failure. This makes no sense. Where are the patience? Does no one have patience?
Dumb asset management would be to be too impatient. Now the challenge is not to do something stupid while under all this pressure.
The problem is that the faith in this FO as far as evaluating talent and managing assets was low to begin with. Now to make it worse, you hear of so much dysfunction in the front office and maybe coaching decisions also influenced by some of that power struggle, that it is valid to be concerned about this franchise.
Especially when we have a guy who the moment he gets frustrated with all this, and wants out, every other team will throw their hat in the ring to get him.
This needs strong leadership from Cuban than just hoping that time will smooth things over. Unfortunately I am not sure that Cuban is capable of that.