(06-24-2024, 02:41 PM)Knutsen Wrote: But if he’s the fearless and brave leader that makes your national team believe they can beat absolutely anybody including the US you like him. 

(06-24-2024, 01:23 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: I hope Dirk forgives me. I find it really hard to root for Schroeder.

(06-24-2024, 02:46 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I'm not sure the US should be the favorites (no idea if they are or not). I wonder if they'll even be the best team from North America, frankly. 

That's part of my frustration with Luka/Slovenia, honestly. These national teams are getting more and more stacked each year. Luka could be the best player in any one of these tournaments and they still really wouldn't have a chance. It's starting to feel like risking injury just to throw his summer/recovery/developmental time into the dirt. 

I realize I wouldn't feel that way if I was Slovenian.

(06-25-2024, 10:21 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: Team USA Roster:

Curry/Haliburton
Edwards/Booker/Holiday
Durant/Tatum/Kawhi
Lebron/AD
Embiid/Adebayo


They are by far the favorites.

(06-25-2024, 02:32 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: The reason I disagree is that the Americans don’t play together consistently. It’s a revolving door of who’s who players. Talented, yes, but not as cohesive as some of the other teams, and those teams are starting to be full of NBA players, too.

LeBron playing is a big deal because everybody will definitely fall in line behind him, but that last time around they had the most talented team and then we found out none of them knew how to play anything but one on one basketball. In retrospect, that’s not surprising, because they were all the best players on their teams. 

Those stacked international teams have been playing together for years.

(06-25-2024, 02:32 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: The reason I disagree is that the Americans don’t play together consistently. It’s a revolving door of who’s who players. Talented, yes, but not as cohesive as some of the other teams, and those teams are starting to be full of NBA players, too.

LeBron playing is a big deal because everybody will definitely fall in line behind him, but that last time around they had the most talented team and then we found out none of them knew how to play anything but one on one basketball. In retrospect, that’s not surprising, because they were all the best players on their teams. 

Those stacked international teams have been playing together for years.

(06-25-2024, 06:48 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: @wojespn
The Detroit Pistons are hiring Dallas Mavericks executive Dennis Lindsey as the Senior VP of Basketball Operations, sources tell ESPN. Lindsey constructed the Utah Jazz era of Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert and now goes to Detroit to join Trajan Langdon's new group.

(06-25-2024, 06:48 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: @wojespn
The Detroit Pistons are hiring Dallas Mavericks executive Dennis Lindsey as the Senior VP of Basketball Operations, sources tell ESPN. Lindsey constructed the Utah Jazz era of Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert and now goes to Detroit to join Trajan Langdon's new group.

(06-25-2024, 07:16 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: That is not good. Could be a sign Sweeney becomes the head coach there, too. Really worried we could go back to Javale McChucklenuts signings now with Kidd and Nico by themselves again. That is once again a money issue, too. Lindsey will be #2 in Detroit just like he was in Dallas, so basically Detroit must pay more.

(06-25-2024, 09:26 PM)mvossman Wrote: Nooooooooo!!!!  I hoped Nico learned as much as possible. This is terrible news

(06-25-2024, 07:16 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: That is once again a money issue, too. Lindsey will be #2 in Detroit just like he was in Dallas, so basically Detroit must pay more.

(06-25-2024, 06:48 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: @wojespn
The Detroit Pistons are hiring Dallas Mavericks executive Dennis Lindsey as the Senior VP of Basketball Operations, sources tell ESPN. Lindsey constructed the Utah Jazz era of Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert and now goes to Detroit to join Trajan Langdon's new group.

(06-26-2024, 12:20 AM)omahen Wrote: Lindsey was not #2 in Dallas, he was an advisor. He is #2 in Detroit

(06-26-2024, 01:44 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: He was the de facto #2. They wanted to keep him, they could have paid him and given him the title. It´s still f´n Detroit, no matter how much history he has with Langdon. You can always money-whip coaches, assistants, FO staff. This really concerns me. If we go back to pre-Lindsey Nico/Kidd we could be in trouble. This might be more significant news than anything else this off-season. I just wait for the news to land that we wasted a first on (all due respect) DFS.

(06-26-2024, 02:25 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: Well no... He was not the "de facto #2"

The current Vice President of Basketball Operations (and assistant GM) is Michael Finley. Lindsey was an advisor. He definitely had a voice in the room, but there was no title to give him. You can't have 2 VP's of basketball operations or else we're venturing closer to a Cuban/Donnie Nelson led team where their favorite movie was American Psycho. Could they have money whipped him to stay in an advisory role? Maybe....  But there are only so many GM jobs in the league. Lindsey took 1 of 30 VP positions on a team. It's kind of a no brainer.


I thought Lindsey's job was to show the ropes to Nico and Finley. Give helpful advice and aid negotiation tactics. He had really no public role other than being in the background of a few pictures the last year. 

If you'd like, we can  give all the credit to Lindsey for every move made the last 12 months, which means Nico and Finley are horrible at their jobs and we're doomed. But before Lindsey was here the Mavs did make savvy trades that netted us Kyrie, Hardy and Dinwiddie. Were they as good as the the ones the Mavs made in the last year? No. Time will tell and we'll see how important Lindsey was in building this current iteration of the Mavs. 

I am saddened from the loss but I think Nico and Finley were the main guys the whole time.