Confession: your fearless journalist was smothered the other day during “White Lotus”, a Bacchanalia as sentimental as a tax audit, you can therefore imagine my reaction by watching Luka Donon’s emotional response to the video tribute of the MAVs. It turns out that I am not the only one to be soft. JJ Redick, Luka’s new coach, said he and several other Lakers barely held him together.
I guess anyone to American Airlines Center, not to mention countless other people looking around the world, also felt Luka’s pain.
Of course, hardly he had suffered the tears of his red cheeks as he came out and had burned the Mavs for 45 points.
“To have the emotional resolution to go then put this kind of performance,” said Redick, “it’s, it’s …
“Superhuman.”
The MAVs are at least two months too late by realizing this truth, but, as we are too painfully aware, there is nothing to do now. Not as Adam Silver could institute a 90 -day moratorium on the decision and recover it. Not only will MAV suffer from victories and losses, but they will also feel it in the record. Espn reports that they will lose nine figures in sponsorships, goods and ticket sales. If Patrick Dumont knows nothing about basketball and at least known He does not say, as the initiates of the League say AthleticsOne would think that a guy from Vegas understood the potential financial loss of a world feeling.
According to all appearances, no one in charge with the MAVs has the slightest idea of what to do now, although this does not prevent them from trying. This is the problem.
Whenever they open their mouths on Luka or try to do something good, they only get things done, as it was even possible.
From the press to one and only pressing Nico Harrison in which he laughed while conceding that he and Jason Kidd “buried” to Kidd recognizing trade comparisons with the sale of Babe Ruth by Babe Ruth by the Yankees, it was a disaster of public relations after the other.
When repeated attempts to light a match in the dark lead to several third degree burns, it may be time for MAVs to rethink their strategy.
As usual, I’m here to help.
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Fire Nico
What started as a song and has evolved into a common chorus covering several fans bases would also be the fastest way for the organization to do well. As much as possible, anyway.
No, that wouldn’t bring Luka back, but justice would be done.
Dumont can do this exactly at some point. Certainly the way to bet. Almost everyone is finally dismissed, and Nico increased the bet by fixing the bar for his redemption to win everything. Difficult for any organization, and even less one without Luka. Nico also said that he wanted to win over the next three or four years, giving him an even shorter leash, because he is already two -thirds from a season of Kyrie Irving next year. And how good Kyrie will be when he returns?
Frankly, while the dismissal Nico is now saving time to break a new GM while allowing fans to remove their frustrations on someone else, it’s too early. Once you have gone over the emotion of what happened, you have to look at the facts. Davis completed Kyrie well enough, even if it was only for three quarters. No NBA initiate doubts the potential.
You also have to look at the story. Nico was teams that went to the conference final and to the NBA finals. Of course, he built them around Luka. But the lists before Nico’s arrival were also centered on Luka, and they did not go nowhere.
Let’s see what Nico is doing this summer and in a season when players do not fall like your 401 (K).
Trade against Kevin during
Nico has proven that he is not afraid to swing large, and there is no swing greater than during. Reports to the deadline have suggested that Nico has tried to conclude an agreement with the Suns, although the fact that the news was released in advance should make you suspect. Nico made Luka’s agreement with the Lakers because of his relationship with Davis and because he knew that Rob Pelinka did not flee.
During will have 37 years this fall, but he can still play. He would fulfill well while Kyrie came out, and he would give the Mavs the great three they always wanted.
But the teams that have disappeared for three superstars have no good history. I did not work in Brooklyn with Durant, Kyrie and James Harden. The problem with the construction of lists around talent at high prices is that it does not remain enough to pay a good support cast. And the MAVS support casting played a big role in their NBA final race last season.
What would it cost to acquire during? Mavs do not have much choice, which means that they would probably become bidder by rockets or thunder. The MAVs should probably lose the first round they have obtained from the Lakers, plus three or four from PJ Washington / Max Christie / Dereck Lively II / Daniel Gafford / Klay Thompson.
The trade for during the subject would surely change the subject, but that would also mean that the time to win is now, because there is no future in the scenario above.
Probably a sufficient reason for Nico, whose window is even tighter.
Just keep your mouth closed
It’s quite easy. From now on, whenever a journalist asks Luka, simply say: “With all the respect I owe you, we have said enough, and we move on.”
Among the many recent statements of Mark Cuban, there is the one who, if he was still in charge, he could at least have explained what the MAV thought instead of putting both feet in their mouths. Cuban would be a better face of the franchise than Dumont, Nico or Kidd. The quantity of what Cuban says in fact checks is another matter, but he gets Mavs fans. He started this mess by hiring Nico and selling adelsons, but at least he would not continue to add to it. From Luka on Down, we all suffered enough.
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