12-15-2022, 10:00 AM
(12-15-2022, 09:32 AM)bodhisattva Wrote: They are either cheap and playing Moneyball
Or just stupid.
Dont get me wrong, they are still a solid Nba team, they will probably make the playoffs, but compared to how, Suns, Clippers, Nuggets, Grizzlies are moving in the market in the last 4 years its not good enough.
It depends how high your ambitions are. I assumed that by Luka turning into a superstar, you would aim to build the best possible team. Instead the Mavs FO is giving me these vibes of working on a limited budged and being happy just being good enough.
Compared to our competition, we have less depth, making less changes, making less signings. At least that is the filling I get. Signing a lot of mediocre roll players and hoping one of them would make progress I guess?
Cato made a comment related to this on his 77 Minutes podcast. He said the team had the mentality that they were a WC finalist. If that is your mindset, you do things a certain way to try to tweak your way a little further up the ladder. It is obvious, for whatever reason, that they aren't that. If you are an ~.500 team fighting for a play-in spot, you take a very different approach.