07-27-2021, 01:27 AM
(07-27-2021, 01:01 AM)F Gump Wrote: 4 But come to find out, I was wrong. That is NOT what Nico was hired to do. By all accounts, Nico was hired to fill the role Cuban has been filling. Obviously Donnie HAD to go, and the coach left because he was now being instructed to report to the GM (like coaches do), not to Cuban. Kidd, Finley, Bob (if he is around), all of those guys offering input now report to Nico, not to Cuban. He's their boss.
Yeah, I understand. Just wondering why you're so confident about this...
(07-27-2021, 01:01 AM)F Gump Wrote: 5 Just listen to everything that's being said, allowing the above as your expectation, and it's always the same message: Nico is the boss, everyone reports to Nico and Nico makes the decisions. Yes Nico reports to Cuban because everyone has a boss but Nico is the GM and does the GM-ing for the Mavs.
6 I believe it when Nico keeps telling us that he wouldn't be here if it wasn't a real GM job with real GM authority - there's no reason to doubt that. Cuban wants to downplay the fact that he WAS the GM (and therefore responsible for horrendous direction, decisions, and inaction) so he doesn't emphasize that he's had to fire himself and things have changed, but he does say everyone reports to Nico, which is very different than before.
...and it seems like this is the answer. Man, I hope you're right. It would give me a lot of hope for the future, both near and distant. I was hoping you had something other than what has been said in public to list among "by all accounts" but at least someone feels confident about this. That does make me feel a little better.
You don't think there's a chance that Harrison believes this, explaining why he's coming across so confidently, but that he'll soon find out that Cuban's definition of "Nico is the boss" is wildly different than his own?
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