(12-20-2021, 09:33 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: The Nico interview still bothers me. I don't expect him to give any breaking news but I really was interested in hearing him talk about a vision he views moving forward. It was a tough interview for Followill (BTW he did great doing the game by himself). He doesn't want to ask uncomfortable questions and he still has to call the game. I hope Nico is keeping things really close to the vest. Although the Mavs dysfunction the last 10 years is making me not trust anything and judge purely off results.
Less Cuban is always a good strategy. He is the owner so he will have ultimate say, but I want him out of all roster building, for the most part. I don't know if Nico has the personality to manage Cuban correctly. As much as I love Dirk, if he is involved there is a much better chance that he is Vlade than a Jerry West. Michael Finley looks the part and I am sure he is very smart, but he had a front row seat to the clown show the last few years.
I want the vision to be Nico's (or whoever we hired for that role) moving forward. I just get a weird feeling it is still a decision making process where there are a lot of cooks in the kitchen and not just one vision being followed. I hope I am wrong. I feel like we have been burned for so long, I am taking the approach I am going to be skeptical until proven incorrect.
There was nothing at all about that interview that gave me any feeling at all that Nico has a vision for the team, or is leading a charge out of the dark and into the light.
He seemed a little nervous, like he was mostly trying not to say something wrong. His goal, if he had one, seemed to be to establish that he is still in a learning stage. Some of the things he did say seemed a little odd, given the situation. Throwing shade at Brunson for emphasizing his own scoring over getting shots for others, for example. Or that the players are "just beginning to understand" that Kidd actually knows something about basketball. Sounded sort of like repeating stuff he had heard in other contexts.
I understand the hopeful takes that this is all next-level genius, and Nico is intentionally hiding his light under a bushel. I don't know, I don't really buy all the nine-dimensional chess speculation. It seems like they're just flailing around, and don't know what to do.