Cuban: Lakers fired training staff before play-offs-> sweep

Mamba Venom · Post #1 » by **Mamba Venom** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 8:44 am

According to Cuban interview (Gosh he is fool of arrogance again, he was likable for a while) he said the Lakers fired all of the training staff before the 2010-2011 play-offs started. Cuban said the Mavs would have still beat the Lakers, but if the Lakers didn't fire the training staff, we would have won at least 2 games.

I never heard about the firings until AFTER the season was over. Thoughts.

TwoBalls · Post #2 » by **TwoBalls** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:01 am

I don't know what he's talking about, never heard anything myself. Maybe its just to make even more distractions for Lakers. Its Cuban after all.

Sofa King · Post #3 » by **Sofa King** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:52 am

They should hire Phoenix's staff since they were not working.

AcecardZ · Post #4 » by **AcecardZ** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:13 pm

Gary Vitti is still the Lakers' trainer. Was Cuban referring to his assistants?

Post #5 » by **Kilroy** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:44 pm

Cuban has had maybe one of the more disastrous off-seasons any contender ever had, while Mitch had one of the best any GM has ever had...

Frankly I would expect nothing more from Mark Cuban... And it feels divine.

Edrees · Post #6 » by **Edrees** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:15 pm

Kilroy wrote:Cuban has had maybe one of the more disastrous off-seasons any contender ever had, while Mitch had one of the best any GM has ever had...

Frankly I would expect nothing more from Mark Cuban... And it feels divine.

One of the most disastrous? Not even close. Was it the best? No, but they lost one good player and got some other good ones. Jason kidd isn't a difference maker at this stage of his career. We definitely had one of the best ever, but i think it's a big stretch to consider theirs anything close to one of the worst. Can it be worse than losing shaq, fisher, malone, payton, phil jackson, and gaining odom, butler, smush and mihm? Or losing Lebron and Big Z and getting nobody? Been plenty worse just in the past few years. Personally I like Cuban.

Post #7 » by **Kilroy** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:56 pm

Edrees wrote:One of the most disastrous? Not even close. Was it the best? No, but they lost one good player and got some other good ones. Jason kidd isn't a difference maker at this stage of his career. We definitely had one of the best ever, but i think it's a big stretch to consider theirs anything close to one of the worst. Can it be worse than losing shaq, fisher, malone, payton, phil jackson, and gaining odom, butler, smush and mihm? Or losing Lebron and Big Z and getting nobody? Been plenty worse just in the past few years. Personally I like Cuban.

'Most disastrous' May have been exaggeration but trading Shaq was our choice because he was disgruntled and didn't want to be here anymore... And after trading him, retaining Malone and Payton would be stupid.

Lebron leaving was a forgone conclusion, Gilbert was stupid for rolling those dice. And why keep Z if LeBron was gone? That just doesn't count to me, and I never thought that team were truly contenders.

Mark Cuban is a complete and utter tool... He's emotional, I'll give him that but beyond that, he makes questionable decisions and tends to think throwing money at the Mavs is the best solution. I think he's been riding on his 'I'm willing to pay what it takes to win!' reputation... Which is starting to wear thin.
He was likely a big factor in the CP3 deal getting vetoed.

They're one season away from the championship, their team imploded, his plan seemed to be to cut salary and score in Free Agency. He was supposed to get DWill, lost out on him... Let Jason Terry walk... And let Kidd go too...

Mayo, Collison, and Kaman were solid pickups but they were consolation prizes after their plans went out the window. And with the possible exception of Kaman, they're projects.
Sure they have talent, but they lost their championship character... And I promise you, Cuban knows that...

You know how I know I'm right? Because Cuban's talking about the Lakers... Every time something doesn't go well for the Mavs, he's always talking about Mitch or the Lakers.

Gek · Post #8 » by **Gek** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 6:31 pm

Seems to fit pretty well here. I doubt we wouldn't have heard of this before if it actually happened with the timing he's suggested.

MAMBAEMD · Post #9 » by **MAMBAEMD** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 8:39 pm

Kilroy wrote:
Edrees wrote:One of the most disastrous? Not even close. Was it the best? No, but they lost one good player and got some other good ones. Jason kidd isn't a difference maker at this stage of his career. We definitely had one of the best ever, but i think it's a big stretch to consider theirs anything close to one of the worst. Can it be worse than losing shaq, fisher, malone, payton, phil jackson, and gaining odom, butler, smush and mihm? Or losing Lebron and Big Z and getting nobody? Been plenty worse just in the past few years. Personally I like Cuban.

'Most disastrous' May have been exaggeration but trading Shaq was our choice because he was disgruntled and didn't want to be here anymore... And after trading him, retaining Malone and Payton would be stupid.

Lebron leaving was a forgone conclusion, Gilbert was stupid for rolling those dice. And why keep Z if LeBron was gone? That just doesn't count to me, and I never thought that team were truly contenders.

Mark Cuban is a complete and utter tool... He's emotional, I'll give him that but beyond that, he makes questionable decisions and tends to think throwing money at the Mavs is the best solution. I think he's been riding on his 'I'm willing to pay what it takes to win!' reputation... Which is starting to wear thin.
He was likely a big factor in the CP3 deal getting vetoed.

They're one season away from the championship, their team imploded, his plan seemed to be to cut salary and score in Free Agency. He was supposed to get DWill, lost out on him... Let Jason Terry walk... And let Kidd go too...

Mayo, Collison, and Kaman were solid pickups but they were consolation prizes after their plans went out the window. And with the possible exception of Kaman, they're projects.
Sure they have talent, but they lost their championship character... And I promise you, Cuban knows that...

You know how I know I'm right? Because Cuban's talking about the Lakers... Every time something doesn't go well for the Mavs, he's always talking about Mitch or the Lakers.

"most disastrous" is not an exaggeration at all. I think Kilroy is right on.
Cuban actually started flirting with disaster the previous off-season when he let Tyson Chandler go. Now that was an absolute disaster.
He also felt that he would have had Dwight if Orlando had held onto him this year, and that dwight would have signed with Dallas after this season.
Cuban is also bitter because he is being intentionally left out from being a baseball owner. The MLB owners do not want him to own a team.
He is just hating life right now.

rjvir · Post #10 » by **rjvir** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:52 pm

Could he be talking about the coaching staff and not the training staff? Garry Vitti is still the Lakers trainer.

I think he was talking about the sweep of Phil Jackson and anything bearing resemblance to the Triangle offense.

chefy · Post #11 » by **chefy** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:32 pm

this fool was all over the place too when we got pau. haters gonna hate.

TheXFactor · Post #12 » by **TheXFactor** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:26 pm

Cuban is mad, because the Lakers got Dwight

DEEP3CL · Post #13 » by **DEEP3CL** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:38 am

Yep at what XFactor said, and he's just making up BS because he know his team won't be relevant in any way form or fashion. Bringing up old stuff about almost having Kobe, heck we all knew how that was going down. Everybody here was like " we better be getting Dirk , or we better be getting Dirk" but them Kobe was the one who started back tracking when he saw Doc Buss had big balls to trade him.

I remember his quote very well....."Well if Kobe want's a trade, we'll try to accommodate him". Once Kobe got wind of that then the back tracking on his part begin. Cuban can go suck a tail pipe.

The Laker Kid · Post #14 » by **The Laker Kid** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 5:05 pm

Cuban grasping at straws to stay relevant

Hugs4Divac · Post #15 » by **Hugs4Divac** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 5:41 pm

After hearing these comments about the Lakers training staff, the 07 kobe trade that never happened, and about how the Mavs are somehow "better off" without Deron, this is all starting to sound like sour grapes on cubes' part.

Keep living in 2011 Cubes, it's gonna be a long time before your next championship.

side note, I think they're a sleeper to land CP3 this summer

kblo247 · Post #16 » by **kblo247** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:52 pm

Phil's assistants, the scouts, and Lester were all given pink slips after the season and before the playoffs. Was that what he meant?

EArl · Post #17 » by **EArl** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:54 pm

Cuban is saltier than the dead sea! Dude needs to get over it! I liked him for a bit, now he just sounds pathetic!

BEazy · Post #18 » by **BEazy** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:32 pm

Now people are starting to realize why I hate this franchise and the owner. I have to deal with Mavs fans and Cuban's nonsense on a daily basis...

Sofa King · Post #19 » by **Sofa King** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:36 pm

Don't know whats the big deal. The Lakers got rid of most of the staff before the lock out and still going strong. :rock:

Mamba Venom · Post #20 » by **Mamba Venom** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:44 am

The Laker Kid wrote:Cuban grasping at straws to stay relevant

In the same interview:

+Lakers almost traded us Kobe when I was between dances on dancing w/ the stars.
+We are better w/o Deron Williams because all we would have is Deron/Dirk/Marion/Kaman/Carter
+If Mavs didn't fire team shrink in 2006, Mavs win the title (thats when he talked about Lakers firing 'entire training staff' right before the play-offs started in April 2011)
+Kidd is liar, he said he was staying the day before he left, his # will no be retired by the Mavs
+He missed free agent meetings in the past to film Entourage, so he doesn't get why people are disappointed that he missed the meeting w/ D-Wil. Mavs are better w/o D-Wil.