2021-2022 MAVS NEWS: 4th in West | WCF loss [ARCHIVED]

[SleepingHero]

Funny you talk about revisionist history. 48 hours ago the Knicks were Franchise Trash.

It is called FORWARD PROJECTION. It´s one of the most important tools besides asset management. Cuban has no idea about it. That´s why he threw 90/3 at Lowry last summer, which is basically the opening act to this development of Brunson feeling disrespected.

110/5 (player option) compared to whatever the Knicks will pay for four years is not even that huge a difference (#infamous no state tax), that if Brunson really liked it here, he would have stayed.

The Knicks have been franchise trash for 23 years and signing Jalen Brunson isn't going to fix that. If anything, overpaying Brunson is reminiscent of the same play the Knicks have used time and again to keep them bottom dwellers.

I never said I disagreed that the Mavs mismanaged Brunson as an asset, but it's absolutely revisionist history to think Jalen deserved anything more than 10mil a year before the start of last season. Had the Mavs actually done that last year, you'd probably be screaming mad about how the Mavs always overpay their "boys in blue" and that they're stupid for throwing that kind of money to a short guard that can't play defense who was just played off the court in the playoffs vs. the Clips. etc. etc. 

Two things can be true at once. Mavs should've done something more with Brunson as an asset. They failed to capitalize on that. True. 

Knicks throwing JB a deal in excess of 25 mil is a bad use of assets. True.