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[KillerLeft]

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) one year (2021-22 playoffs), 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 season 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.

Dude, I don’t disagree with any of this. And, while I gave into a moment of weakness last week, when it looked like that Siakim trade was going to happen, I was one of the very first on this board to suggest they were done. Took a lot of grief over it for about a week straight. 

I don’t know what to tell you guys. Maybe it’s just a matter of expectations, but mine were low enough that this off-season has exceeded them. I LOVE what they did. I wish they could have done more, but not at the expense of that unprotected ‘27. I just feel like that’s going to be worth so much more later, when combined with other things. It would’ve broken my heart to give that away for somebody terrible like Ayton.