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The Hoop Collective podcast summed up all my feelings on this summer’s failures from Nico and Cuban. Tim Bontemps nailed it from start to finish. 

1.) The Mavs roster looks like a play-in team. 

2.) They have no young talent on this roster and are stuck cap wise. 

3.) Even if a star wanted to force his way to DAL, they do not have the ammo to obtain said star. 

4.) The unrestricted free agency clock is ticking for Luka. 3 years to get it right before he sees greener grass. 

IMO, Mavs essentially punted the next 2 seasons, which leaves them with 1 year to turn it around because that 4th year in Luka’s contract will be expiring, and if Mavs do not produce a winner, he’s probably gone. 

2024 the Mavs might have cap space (Plan Powder Part L) but past FA failures are not encouraging. Hell, by then it might be too late. Look at Durant wanting out with 4 years left on his contract and Mitchell in trade talks with 3 years left on his. 

Banking on a lot of hope the last 10+ years and that strategy appears to be what Nico/Cuban are pushing towards, again.

They haven´t punted on the next two seasons. This is their version of trying to compete on a budget. If they punted on the next two years, they´d pursue a Westbrook deal, clean as much bad cap as possible immediately, signed some young players and rolled with that. 

There is no long-term plan. The only long-term plan I could see is that Cuban is in big financial trouble, can´t even pay the luxury tax, is now milking the team for max profits the next two years before selling the team to balance his finances and let whoever buys the team deal with the Luka trade request.

Jealously here is off the charts with people shitting on a Knicks off-season that could include signing Brunson and Hartenstein, plus acquiring Mitchell. If we did something similar, people here would be planning the parade, instead we have to listen to people acting like McGee is the catch of the off-season.

Refuse to pay Brunson 25 + Thomas Bryant 2 but would pay Brunson 21 + McGee 6. That´s Mavs salary cap math for you.