03-24-2021, 01:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-24-2021, 01:33 PM by jesusshuttlesworth82.)
(03-24-2021, 01:12 PM)HanspardShowerVoice Wrote: Jury is still kinda out how catastrophic it was to avoid rushing out and sign players to contracts that their current teams are trying to dump. I'm really pretty glad we didn't try to pay a premium to lure Patrick Beverly away from the Clippers. Mavs got a better player in Seth Curry. I remember people being like really mad we didn't sign Jabari Parker ... what?
There is one poster on this forum (and the old one) that wanted (and still wants) Jabari Parker.
I dont see how you can possibly say the jury is still out because some teams gave out bad contracts. Unless you think Beverly and Seth were the only options with possibly $36 million in cap space. How do you have max cap space and not manage to sign a single starter? That's the mind boggling part. I remember before free agency the big argument on the old forum was whether we could sign 2 really good starters with $28 million in space or we'd have to stretch Lee in order to do it. Mavs fell asleep at the wheel. They're not plugged in enough to know every free agent was going to agree before tampering was allowed.
Just imagine going to a free agent meeting with NBA legends Pat Riley or Jerry West wearing a $10,000 suit vs Donnie and Cuban coming in there with dad jeans and a hoodie. We have the best young player in the league. We have a championship coach. We have arguably the most loved owner in the NBA. And yet no one is clamoring to play here. Even Porzingis wasn't all that excited or committal in his press conference after being traded here. I strongly believe our front office structure needs a reset but then Cuban wont get to play GM (like Jerry). I dont blame him. If I became a billionaire and could buy my favorite team, I'd want to play GM too.