LightTheBeam wrote:babyjax13 wrote:LightTheBeam wrote:A week ago I was a conspiracy theorist. Today we are getting stories of a coup by Cuban to oust nico and let him run the show again.
Yes this is all very believable. Nico forced mark out, the owner allowed him to quietly "what if" trade a top 5 player in the world for a broken down 33 year old. And suddenly now cubans back in charge lol.
How long until nico is working an advisory role for his buddy in LA?
That would be a good way to piss of Luka, if you mean bringing Niko to the Lakers.
Half joking. I just have a hard time seeing how some believe this was just a dumb moment but a single individual. Too much smoke for me
Nico didn't think Luka could win a championship.
He wanted to create a strong defense and surrounded Luka with defensive players but just couldn't make it work.
I understand the logic that you aren't ever going to win a championship if you can't lock in defensively as a team. I get wanting to trade Luka when you were concerned that his weight issues would make him a bad asset in a few years on a supermax.
The real issue for Nico is that he did not get enough value back for Luka. I think he was short a few FRPs. The trade was made worse because Kyrie and Davis both got injured soon after. Compounding it has been the fans not standing behind the team on the floor, I doubt any of the current non-rookie Mavs players want to play for the Mavs much longer because of the fans anti-team management sentiment. So now the Mavs really need to shop any players with value and rebuild a culture.
but lateral trade doesn’t make sense. The goal is how to add JJJ and not give up core pieces.
