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[mvossman]

Gotta support this take. All of this whining about the offseason is really surprising to me.  That is why I started the thread with the poll asking people to assess the performance of the MBT. I was surprised that inspite of the constant negative rhetoric, Nico and his team received an overwhelmingly positive vote of approval.

Another point on JB is that he was lost partly because he was not an RFA, which is on Donnie. Nico showed with Hardy they were not going to make the same mistake as the previous regime.

I think it is more of a symptom of "same ol' fans" rather than "same ol' mavs".

I have not seen that thread.  It must not have been recent?  I think most folks could agree that the offseason started off great with the Wood trade, but has been disappointing since, particularly the Brunson loss.  The timing of that thread would probably have a lot to do with the tenor of the response.

And I call it like I see it.  I don't consider myself to be particularly pessimistic.  This FO has performed poorly for many years and this team would not be relevant at all if they had not made the one very good move to get Doncic.  I'm not one of those guys that said it was a lucky move or a no brainer.  I gave them a ton of credit for getting him when good organizations were ahead of us in the draft order (Suns, Hawks, Griz).  But in the years before and since, for every good move they make, it seems like they make 2 or 3 poor ones.

I'm not a fan of the derogatory term "Whining" when referring to a reasoned critique.  For the same reason I don't refer to (arguably overly) optimistic folks as "sunshine pumpers".  We can all have different opinions without being derogatory.