08-19-2022, 12:38 PM
(08-19-2022, 12:11 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: The good news is that this one aspect of front office activity has the greatest chance of changing with the new regime. They can't make Cuban do something to which he's philosophically opposed, but they can target different attributes in players with the opportunities he allows them.
Too early to know whether they're better at evaluating young players, but I think there's already evidence that they're looking for different things, at least. The Hardy pick is just one of several moves they've made the the former regime wouldn't have, imo.
I'm not so sure this is true. My understanding is Cuban is the reason why we did not draft Giannis. In fact, over the last 20 years this FO greatest asset was Nelson identifying elite European talent (Dirk, Giannis, Luka). That is gone now. The rest of our drafting history has not been great, but most of that was late first round picks, or no picks because we traded them away.
I think the Green pick is not part of any long term issues, it was a symptom of more recent mass dysfunction in the FO (which I lay totally at Cuban's feet). If Nelson was running the draft room like he should have been (instead of bailing like a little bitch) I would not be surprised if we ended up with Bane. He seems like a Nelson kind of pick (see Brunson).
The reality is that we still have Cuban running the show, and below him a guy with no NBA front office experience. I think it is reasonable to hope that we wont suffer the dysfunction that led to the Green pick, but I have no reason to believe our drafting performance is going to be any better than it has been the last 20 years when you take into account the huge hits (Dirk, Luka) the should have been huge hit (Giannis) and the fact that we were generally picking late in first round or not at all.