Mavs?

[Floridaguy]

Dirk was pretty vocal about not wanting to be part of a rebuilding at this stage in his career. No Trade Clause just means he gets to approve the trade.....if they can put him on a contender I could see him taking the move rather than waiting around to see if the Mavs figure it all out and get the right pieces.

[Geck]

Originally Posted by Floridaguy

Dirk was pretty vocal about not wanting to be part of a rebuilding at this stage in his career. No Trade Clause just means he gets to approve the trade.....if they can put him on a contender I could see him taking the move rather than waiting around to see if the Mavs figure it all out and get the right pieces.

i think what he meant ( and this is my slant ) was he didn't want to be part of a team that was blown up with nobody around him and is not competitive as long as there are pieces around him and they can get to the playoffs where anything can happen he will be fine. The mavs will most likely be competitive but not be in a title hunt this next season but after that they will have plenty of cap space to aquire some key players around Dirk which means that he will have two solid seasons of contending for a title.

all this assumes Cuban's plan come true and the luxury tax is so dreadful that nobody will want to keep their players and Cuban will be around to pick them up.

Unfortunately there is no instant gratification here and we will have to wait until NEXT off season to see if this works the way Cuban thinks it will.

[Floridaguy]

Originally Posted by Geck

i think what he meant ( and this is my slant ) was he didn't want to be part of a team that was blown up with nobody around him and is not competitive as long as there are pieces around him and they can get to the playoffs where anything can happen he will be fine. The mavs will most likely be competitive but not be in a title hunt this next season but after that they will have plenty of cap space to aquire some key players around Dirk which means that he will have two solid seasons of contending for a title.

all this assumes Cuban's plan come true and the luxury tax is so dreadful that nobody will want to keep their players and Cuban will be around to pick them up.

Unfortunately there is no instant gratification here and we will have to wait until NEXT off season to see if this works the way Cuban thinks it will.

To repurpose an old lawyer joke: How do you know a professional sports management executive is lying? His lips are moving.

What Cuban states publicly about the failures of this offseason and the "plan" for next offseason is nothing but spin for the public. There is little to no truth there. I've learned that lesson enough times in the last two decades of being an educated sports fan. Thank goodness for new media, fan blogs, independent sport news sources....we don't have to listen to the GMs, players, agents and owners to know what is going on. I think Cuban's vision of CBA related paradigm shifts sounds great.....but I don't know how realistic it is. My guess is that he's just covering up a huge organizational strategy failure.