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[F Gump]

Maybe the Mavs PR machine is their own worst enemy, because it seems like all this angst is coming right from what Stein said.

I have a problem with the results, and you should too, when they tell us they see the massive hole we see, and tell us it's their top priority to get fixed for next year - and then don't deliver. That's not a Stein problem, it's a Mavs FO problem. 

And it's doubly bad when it's the same issue (the lack of interior defensive presence and rebounding). It starts to be very apparent one year (2021-22 playoffs), then they see it and say it's their top priority and they will certainly get it fixed, and then instead of getting it fixed they put a bad band-aid on it (McGee) which of course proves inadequate, then say again after that ensuing season (2022-23) they will DEFINITELY get it fixed really well this time --  and again do basically nothing (another band-aid, plus add a kid who won't be that much help at all this year).

It's not PR. It's either an innate inability to tell the truth, or an utter incompetence at doing what is needed. 

And by the way, don't believe the spin that they might have something coming down the road later this summer -- that is a recurring ploy they use when they haven't done the job, we see they haven't, free agency is done, and they want to kick the can down the road on the issue until we hopefully forget. I was looking back and they have been doing this over and over, year after year, when we see the big hole that they failed to address in free agency, and they don't have an answer. Last year they used Cato and Skin to play the game for them (wittingly or unwittingly, I couldn't say), and this year it's Stein and MacMahon.