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

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That "fix" doesn't even make any sense. ... Cuban is not the GM of the team. There are people HE hired in those positions that are failing miserably right now. .....

In theory, you may be right, but certainly NOT in practice. From what you are saying, in fact, Cuban is again (or, more likely, still) the GM of the Mavs.

Notice that your personal conspiracy theory as the basis of much of your criticisms (that Kidd is making the GM decisions) is rooted in the assumption that Cuban would - and again HAS - hired a GM and then started using his non-GMs to give him the "expertise" for him to decide how to do GM stuff. Even you don't believe Nico is GMing.

This is the same as before. Donnie was supposedly the GM but Cuban began to make the decisions instead, and then get input from others to decide what to do. Instead of Donnie, it might be Rick the coach, it might be Bob V the advisor, and I bet at times Finley or Keith Grant were the source of a decision or three. Now, it's Nico in the Donnie role - the GM who does not decide GM things - and Kidd being listened to supposedly. Cuban is effectively the GM as he determines whose input decides what - the sucky results are on him.

This is not new, the fact that Cuban is micro-managing the front office and controlling the decisions, rather than letting his GM handle the job of GMing. If he hired a sucky GM, that's not an excuse for him taking control, as Cuban's terrible track record in GMing should mandate he gets an expert in the job and delegate it all to that guy. Obviously he did not. It's all on Cuban.