03-16-2022, 11:45 AM
(03-16-2022, 11:01 AM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: The way Jake Fischer kind of danced around his reporting on the Toronto/KP thing in that podcast made me lose a lot of faith in him in terms of his sources.
Lots of "i try to be responsible when reporting what's offered vs what's being shopped...." "i know toronto was shopping goran and a first..." until finally saying "based on macmahon and your (cato's) reporting, it sounded like toronto was asking for more than what dallas wanted to offer"
Just kind of made me feel icky because it was a round about way of saying, Toronto wanted picks from Dallas.
Made me feel like the tax/Brunson narrative he's pushing may not be entirely true either. I know there's the latest CBA narrative and Cuban not paying the tax there but that timeline also lines up with a ton of rosters that didn't deserve tax dollars to be paid for it. I've stood firm on Cuban's willingness to pay Brunson and the tax because this team is starting to turn a corner and it would be bad asset management otherwise but I also wouldn't be surprised if we attach a second or two to THJ to just get him off the books either.
All that said, I'm going to take Fischer with a big grain of salt moving forward, there's a reason he works for Bleacher Report still.
Marc Stein and others quote him frequently. He is now as tied in as anyone in the industry. He is a first level source now.