hph6203 said:mavsfan4ever said:hph6203 said:
Name one player. Just one.
I've already named many players that I'd like. Bogdanovic, Ross, Beverly, brogdon (no draft picks so this wasn't going to happen), etc.
If we made offers and got rejected, then that's one thing. That's not what happened. I don't believe that we made multiple offers and multiple phone calls, and that none of this was reported. The opposite is being reported.
You are missing the point. The Mavs didn't make the playoffs last year.
Bogdanovic went to a team that finished 17 games ahead of the Mavs.
Beverly resigned with a playoff team.
Ross resigned with a playoff team.
Brogdon signed with a playoff team and required draft compensation to ensure Milwaukee didn't match.
You still have not named one player that changed teams to a non-playoff team that you wish the Mavs would have signed.
So you'd have to pay substantially more to get those players to sign here and you have to consider if those payments are worth negatively impacting the team's ability to improve in the future, because those signings aren't going to get this team all the way to where you want to go.
So can you really be upset with the Mavs front office for not doing anything substantial other than getting Curry to this point? Probably not. You have to realize that, by in large, sportswriters aren't that good at reporting things, because what they're reporting in the grand scheme of things aren't that important.
Again, look at what the Hawks did, and tell me you'd rather the Mavs do that. They went into free agency with the same situation, almost exactly, and they've swapped talent for talent and facilitated the Nets signing KD. It could be a lot worse, at least the Mavs still have ample flexibility to improve and they didn't settle for adding Dragic.
Someone said their friends aren't upset, because you can't force someone to play for you. That's accurate. That's the point. Ignore the narrative and analyze what actually happened and what could have gone different, because you don't know if the narrative of them doing nothing is accurate, because you weren't there and neither were the people writing the stories or even the people leaking the stories. It could be some irate woman that's upset the Mavs have a "Toxic work environment" and wants to make them look bad. Who knows.
I don't agree with any of this but not going to type a long response on my phone. We aren't Charlotte. Players are not going to refuse to come here because we didn't make the playoffs next year. . We are in a better or equal spot moving forward as Orlando, Miami, Clippers, pacers, etc.
Making the playoffs last year doesn't mean much, especially when we add porzingis and could have added more good players this summer. Players aren't dumb. They can look at rosters and decide if a team's future looks bright. Butler went to Miami. We are better than Miami. Ross went to Orlando. We are better than Orlando. Brogdon went to pacers. We are slightly better or worse than pacers depending on how you think porzingis will work out.
It feels like you have a relative that works in the front office. You are hypothesizing everything that could have possibly happened in an effort to make them not look awful. And I'm not sure why. While the reports may not be 100% accurate, it's all we have to go on. Not sure why you would completely ignore the reports because they may not be 100% correct, and then go on to guess about what could have happen (when there are no reports backing up whatnyou are guessing about).
