08-01-2022, 07:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-01-2022, 07:55 PM by Scott41theMavs.)
I have to say that the past month might be my most depressing time as a Mavs fan, and I've been on board since the summer of '95. Just seeing the abject fail in losing Brunson for nothing, with no proximate pathways of improvement, the front office failing to achieve their own goal of a defensive wing, let alone the tremendous necessity of replacing Brunson's playmaking, throw in our poor prospects given recent history of keeping (or making good use in trade of) Wood, and Luka's increasingly probable eventual departure, I'm just not seeing much reason to hope. Up until now, there's always been hope of some kind. In the bleak post-2011 years, there was always Dirk. We may very well not always have Luka. What's most discouraging is the evident lack of urgency by the front office, when significant moves should have been made at least two weeks ago. It can't all be about the supposed KD and DM waits. That tells me 1) our trade "assets" have even less value league wide than we think they do here, and 2) we're probably going into to the season with this roster, which is deeply discouraging to me after last year's progress.
Hard to believe it's come to this point just a couple of months after the high of making the WCFs.
Of course, the probable second-most depressing and bleak-seeming time was probably the few days between Nellie Sr. nuking what was left of the three J's and his miraculously convincing Finley to extend rather than walking. Unfortunately, Nellie is on a beach in Maui and not here.
Hard to believe it's come to this point just a couple of months after the high of making the WCFs.
Of course, the probable second-most depressing and bleak-seeming time was probably the few days between Nellie Sr. nuking what was left of the three J's and his miraculously convincing Finley to extend rather than walking. Unfortunately, Nellie is on a beach in Maui and not here.
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