Maybe I'm just a patsy, but...
END results? They just got here! I guess by "end result" you mean the result of their first offseason.
Kidd was saying "we'll see what we have around Christmas" and "we can't just rely on the 3 pt shots" in the preseason, not while they were struggling.
I don't think this is true for all fans. I see progress. I see fans with more basketball smarts than I (at least one of them, anyway) detailing progress.
No doubt, but the stuff I listen to is what the poeple involved say, not PR releases. Do you think Kidd and Nico just tell the press things they're told to say?
Yes, for sure! I'm in no way certain that this will all work.
I'm not responding to anything based on whether it's positive or negative. I always hate when conversation fails to engage anything real and just devolves into positive vs. negative. My take is that I could see this process leading to either exciting or disappointing results. I have no idea which it will be.
Seems like the meat of this particular back and forth, which (this discussion) is probably pretty far down in the weeds, is whether Nico and Kidd have told us things that reflect what they're actually attempting to do, or that they're simply repeating things fed to them by the PR department and that the things said do not reflect their behind the scenes efforts.
Like I said, maybe I'm a patsy, but I believe they're efforting to do the things that they're telling us that they're doing. And I like some things about what they say they're trying to do.
Whether or not they're successful within a reasonable time span is a different question.
(11-11-2021, 01:45 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: just think the end result didn't live up to the created expectations
END results? They just got here! I guess by "end result" you mean the result of their first offseason.
(11-11-2021, 01:45 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: and the growing pains are designed to end in a leap in performance. That all may be absolutely true, but it's also what a team with a new coach and a struggling offense would say, isn't it?
Kidd was saying "we'll see what we have around Christmas" and "we can't just rely on the 3 pt shots" in the preseason, not while they were struggling.
(11-11-2021, 01:45 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: As we impatient fans aren't seeing much week-to-week progress
I don't think this is true for all fans. I see progress. I see fans with more basketball smarts than I (at least one of them, anyway) detailing progress.
(11-11-2021, 01:45 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: hype is what PR departments are hired to do
No doubt, but the stuff I listen to is what the poeple involved say, not PR releases. Do you think Kidd and Nico just tell the press things they're told to say?
(11-11-2021, 01:45 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: Maybe the eventual performance will live up to that. We just don't know, yet.
Yes, for sure! I'm in no way certain that this will all work.
(11-11-2021, 01:45 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: Wasn't meant to be especially pejorative of the Mavs.
I'm not responding to anything based on whether it's positive or negative. I always hate when conversation fails to engage anything real and just devolves into positive vs. negative. My take is that I could see this process leading to either exciting or disappointing results. I have no idea which it will be.
Seems like the meat of this particular back and forth, which (this discussion) is probably pretty far down in the weeds, is whether Nico and Kidd have told us things that reflect what they're actually attempting to do, or that they're simply repeating things fed to them by the PR department and that the things said do not reflect their behind the scenes efforts.
Like I said, maybe I'm a patsy, but I believe they're efforting to do the things that they're telling us that they're doing. And I like some things about what they say they're trying to do.
Whether or not they're successful within a reasonable time span is a different question.