05-08-2023, 11:17 AM
So, again....did we hire Lindsey? This is sort of a important offseason. It brings me back to Nico's first offseason....of course he didn't have time to make decisions so we were forced into re-signing Hardaway right? That was some of the messaging. They should already have several directions planned out at this stage for this offseason. Is this guy part of the plan? Why do they move at a glacier approach? Ainge would have already traded 6 players (joking as I know this is not possible, but sort of not joking).
It got me thinking, When Nico was hired we were all hoping he had some Svengali feel of evaluating players. I was one of these. It certainly appears this was never the role he was hired for. We hear the Mavericks front office is pretty small compared to other teams. So who replaced Donnie? Like him or hate him, he had decades experience of evaluating players. Bob V was probably not good at evaluating players but he had a process that lead to strong recommendations. Who filled in the gap when they left? Did anyone? Or was it Mark, Kidd, Nico and Fin in a group think process. Did Cuban actually think that would work and what we needed?
It got me thinking, When Nico was hired we were all hoping he had some Svengali feel of evaluating players. I was one of these. It certainly appears this was never the role he was hired for. We hear the Mavericks front office is pretty small compared to other teams. So who replaced Donnie? Like him or hate him, he had decades experience of evaluating players. Bob V was probably not good at evaluating players but he had a process that lead to strong recommendations. Who filled in the gap when they left? Did anyone? Or was it Mark, Kidd, Nico and Fin in a group think process. Did Cuban actually think that would work and what we needed?