(02-07-2020, 11:35 PM)Baller AI Wrote: Your mindset is the mindset that is keeping us from becoming an elite FO. It is not wrong to criticize obvious mistakes that are keeping us from being a top tier front office. If you want to be the best, you can’t just ignore mistakes, especially preventable mistakes. Scott is 100% correct, we failed to be a serious playoff team this year, and thats the message we are sending to Luka and KP and the res of our talent. They will only tolerate it for so long. They aren’t obligated to take millions of dollars of paycuts and stick around for 21 years like Dirk did because hes extremely loyal (almost to a fault), if we won’t try as hard as they are to contend and win a ring. The Mavs basically said despite how hard you guys worked to achieve the BEST OFFENSE IN NBA HISTORY, we do not believe in you and won’t bring in a defender or two to try and win it all.Well, respectfully, I was talking to Scott. However, if you want to chime in again, I guess I can address it before I bow out of this discussion.
Of course, bringing up mistakes should be done. Observing the team and the front office is the main point of the board. Assessing their moves, both good and bad, is a great way to spend time and continue to learn about the sport and team. The quality and knowledge level of most of the posters is such that we can enjoy high-quality discourse on those subjects, above the level of the knee-jerking typical of more casual fans (with the possible exception of the game threads, lol).
What I am talking about is blanketing the board with dozens of posts along the lines of, "THE MAVS HAVE MADE MISTAKES IN THE PAST! THEY MIGHT MAKE MORE MISTAKES IN THE FUTURE! OMG!!! I WANTED THEM TO MAKE MOVES A-Z, AND THEY DIDN'T! THEY ARE THE WORST FO IN THE WORLD, AND THEY ARE INTENTIONALLY SABOTAGING THE TEAM! LUKA IS ABOUT TO LEAVE! I HAVE BEEN MAKING THESE SAME POINTS FOR MONTHS, AND NO ONE WILL LISTEN! WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE!!!"
Note that posts of this nature contain little to no analysis, and mostly consist of conclusory professions of doom, not supported by thoughtfully presented evidence. It's not really that they'e negative. They just seem very repetitive and honestly don't seem to add as much to the general knowledge as their frequent re-posting would suggest. I don't want to offend anyone, but frankly, the best analogy for it I can think of is a child's tantrum.
However, I don't want to throw cold water on anybody's good time. I know that sports fandom includes a segment of participants who like to have something to be in a hissy about, and it's not especially important to them whether the problems actually merit that much rage or not. I get it.
So, if you like blowing off steam this way, far be it from me to get in your way. I guess every sports board has some Chicken Littles, and that is to be expected, and in some cases, even enjoyed. Okay, pal, I'm out. Peace. No offense intended. Carry on!