11-03-2021, 12:42 PM
(11-03-2021, 12:17 PM)audiosway Wrote: I'm not glad he's gone. But, it definitely shows what many of us suspected for a long time. The talent level was just not that good. Rick was always able to turn it into a playoff team but that didn't mean it was good by any means. Cuban's direction of this team has been terrible.
Well I blame Carlisle for not being more assertive, demanding and flat out confrontational. He had the option to tank for better talent, but he was a good soldier, trying to win as many useless games as possible, so that in the end, we could draft DSJ instead of Tatum, Ball, Fox, Markkanen or Isaac.
I suspect that it had a lot to do with his family situation. He didn´t want to uproot them and allow his daughter to finish highschool in Dallas. Other coaches at that elite level would have been a lot more confrontational toward their front office/owner over the last decade imho.