12-23-2025, 12:27 AM
(12-22-2025, 11:48 PM)F Gump Wrote: Having a fire sale with Luka (running away from presumed disaster ahead, and being desperate to make a trade no matter what) is what landed the Mavs where they are. Please, not again. There is no rush, and they need to wait until the market for AD and others is STRONG before they let talent go. For now, they are only getting junk offers, and that won't change until teams believe the Mavs are not in a hurry to move players for whatever they can get.
Acting quickly - just to act quickly - is a recipe for more bad moves.
And getting changes over with, in a hurry, doesn't help avoid the potential for horrendous mistakes. If the new MBT cannot navigate the right moves (as you want to assume), then you are forcing the ones you have declared to be incompetent to increase their impact by actively being the ones to make more moves. And then you will have to be tasking these incompetents to move forward and build a winner, using their incompetence to do it.
The ONLY wise way to move forward is to get a MAJOR talent running the show, as well as severely minimizing any opportunity for huge blunders before he arrives.
I feel like there is a lot of talking over each other. At no point have I ever argued that the process should be to "act quickly just to act quickly". In fact I have not made any argument regarding process at all. I have simply stated what I hope happens, that they get quality offers for these guys (particularly AD) at some point by the TDL and that they take them.
For those of you hoping they sit on their hands until they hire a GM/end of season, I think you will likely get your wish. I think its potentially a missed opportunity, but I have little hope of it playing out differently.