ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

[F Gump]

When you end up paying a spastic Canadian community service specialist with no basketball skills 11 mil per year it’s pretty hard to avoid over correcting.

Nah, it's not over-correction. It's Cuban finding himself in a new financial reality that he can't handle.

He will pay enough to fund a so-so team. That means spending at the cap, and sometimes a bit more. In that world, mistakes don't matter because the overall spending is easy to justify. But good teams cost way more, and at that level with tax issues, even small mistakes get expensive.

I find it interesting Cuban doesn't demand of himself the same attention to basics he expects from the companies on Shark Tank. If you don't know your business, the uncertainty of how to make it work gets scary. But he has always tried to shortcut the basics with the Mavs, and his continuing refusal to hire an expert at evaluating and negotiating and developing now has him too timid to spend more money, because he can't trust the decision-making on who to sign.