(06-02-2021, 07:07 PM)F Gump Wrote: FIFY. There's the problem. Cuban is the one who decided he knew better than everyone else that the draft was not important enough to be great at. Cuban was the reason Nash walked - he knew better than everyone else who to pay. Cuban (and his belief he knew better than the league about the new CBA) was the reason the Mavs threw their oozing-with-talent team in the dumper and couldn't win again after a title - he knew better than everyone else how to quickly assemble talent for the next generation of winners. Cuban was the reason that 2-time MVP Giannis plays for the Bucks - he knew better than everyone else how to manage the draft and the cap. And no doubt he has fingerprints in the messed up pie in many more places too.I’ve long said he needs someone like Jerry West to come in and go toe to toe with his dumb. Donnie is not it and because of that, he isn’t a very good FO dude. I know Cuban isn’t going to bring that kind of guy in though, but it’s what is really needed.
Changes? Be real. If you can figure out how to make that problem somehow go away, please do.
I think Ainge could be a guy like that. Even in his playing days he was passionate about what he thought.