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

[Jason Terry]

I've said it many times, and it bears repeating ---

Until Cuban hires an EXPERT (and takes himself out of the equation, fully empowering the expert) to handle the player evaluation, negotiation, drafting, development, and all the other roster-building tasks, the Mavs will continue to blunder their way along. It's a GM's league, there are only 30 teams, and the competition has EXPERTS who are actively competing against the Mavs.

The fact that Cuban chose to replace Donnie with a man who has none of those skills, and will be learning on the job while competing against others who are miles ahead and also learning more skills, it was a terrible choice. They needed an expert, and got a kindergartner. While we are disappointed by what's going on, none of these results should be surprising.

They still have no clue how to get players who are two-way talents -- in particular, those who can defend -- so how are they going to fix this? Blind leading the blind.

Cuban just cannot help himself. No different than Jerry Jones. It’s frustrating. And the media propaganda machine makes it worse 

Grew up a Cowboys fan as a kid. At some point in the Romo era i had enough as a fan. Started to enjoy watching them lose. Then stopped watching entirely unless they had a player on my fantasy football team in their game. My life is better now without that in it. My kids will never care about them

I’m not there yet with Cuban and the mavs. It’s frustrating we can’t have a professional organization and will have a perpetual disadvantage because of Cuban. I have accepted it. There’s still part of me that believes we can overcome this like we did in 2011. This is Dirk’s franchise, he built it not Cuban. I feel like we all owe it to Dirk to keep watching. Dude was so loyal to us. 

These games are hard to watch though