Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

[DanSchwartzgan]

So true. We sense the urgency. So we want the Mavs to make a couple of super-moves that solve all the issues. We lay out all kinds of proposals we imagine for this summer.

But the reality is it always takes teams several years of consistently good work, a piece at a time.

Unfortunately, that magnifies MY concern, because when I look back, it seems like every summer there's room for promise and expectation, and then pffft we get crap (or nothing at all).

When is the last summer when the Mavs took strong steps in the right direction? How do we get several years of expert work in the summer, when Cuban and his minions can't even do one? Ugh.

Oh absolutely.  Every TDL and July in recent years have been disappointments.  Too much pfft and crap when singles and doubles would have helped.  If there is room for hope, maybe it is they were so focused on landing stars, they weren’t willing to eat up room or assets for singles and doubles.  Maybe ther was always some big move that they just couldn’t get across the finish line (year after year after year).

The hope would be that now that they have Marion and Kidd to go with Dirk, they can fill in around the edges and get the pieces they need.  That’s the hope.  Might be they just suck and arent’ the least bit imaginative or Donnie and Mark just stopped trying at some point.  I prefer to embrace hope, but even the best dog can only take so many whoopins.