12-15-2022, 12:23 PM
One problem with all the trade solutions and potential targets -- I don't trust Cuban's FO to make a deal that improves the team's direction. Will the player they target be a plus, or a minus? Will the price paid be worth it? Will they end up handcuffing their ability to do things in the future?
Cuban needs an expert in evaluation, negotiation, and roster building. He refuses to hire him, because he sees himself as the expert. So year after year is a churn of mediocre players and time wasted. That's the bottom line.
Cuban's ability (or willingness) to improve the team ended when the 2011 CBA began and Cuban lectured the NBA world on how he had it all figured out and was so far ahead of the class. However the reality was that he was clueless on how to navigate the new paradigm. Previously roster mistakes could be erased by "outspend the competition" -- the only FO skill Cuban had ever developed -- and once that was gone in 2011, the roster-building under the skill-less Cuban has been sucky. They can find a good player or two, but don't know how to assemble an elite roster before they run out of room to spend, and you can't go far enough if you are so thin on elite talent.
Cuban needs an expert in evaluation, negotiation, and roster building. He refuses to hire him, because he sees himself as the expert. So year after year is a churn of mediocre players and time wasted. That's the bottom line.
Cuban's ability (or willingness) to improve the team ended when the 2011 CBA began and Cuban lectured the NBA world on how he had it all figured out and was so far ahead of the class. However the reality was that he was clueless on how to navigate the new paradigm. Previously roster mistakes could be erased by "outspend the competition" -- the only FO skill Cuban had ever developed -- and once that was gone in 2011, the roster-building under the skill-less Cuban has been sucky. They can find a good player or two, but don't know how to assemble an elite roster before they run out of room to spend, and you can't go far enough if you are so thin on elite talent.
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