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Pharmcat wrote:False start: This thread is one year too early .
Leslie Forman wrote:Is the sheen finally off this snake oil selling charlatan?
The man only became rich off of essentially a scam he sold to the morons at Yahoo that was maybe the worst corporate purchase ever. Every other company he's created is pretty much worthless in comparison. The guy literally had Ring right in front of him available for next to nothing and this supposed tech genius had less vision than SHAQ for it.
Galloisdaman wrote:Leslie Forman wrote:Is the sheen finally off this snake oil selling charlatan?
The man only became rich off of essentially a scam he sold to the morons at Yahoo that was maybe the worst corporate purchase ever. Every other company he's created is pretty much worthless in comparison. The guy literally had Ring right in front of him available for next to nothing and this supposed tech genius had less vision than SHAQ for it.
Worse than that he went on CNBC and laughed at Yahoo being scammed. That cost many yahoo shareholders (individual, mutual funds and pension funds) a lot of money. It is one thing for he to get a ridiculous amount of money for very little. Its another thing to gloat in the faces of people that lost money.
ThunderBolt wrote:I’m going to let some of you in on a little secret I learned on realgm. If you don’t like a thread, not only do you not have to comment but you don’t even have to open it and read it. You’re welcome.
The sexual assault allegations he swept under the rug are disturbing. Why wasn't he transparent about that the way he was about the refs?Texas Chuck wrote:Not defending Cuban's most recent actions but Dallas has won the 2nd most games in the Association in his tenure and only has 3 bad seasons in 2 decades. There is a long list of absolutely incompetent owners before you get to old Cuban. He spent gobs of money. He hired good people and kept them in place forever. Was the first owner to embrace analytics, was the owner responsible for major upgrades for players--I mean before Mark Cuban players sat on old unpadded folding chairs on the bench. He took it in the shorts for the entire league and as much as everyone still complains about officiating he is directly responsible for the increased transparency and accountability around officiating.
Easy to take your shots today. I'm pissed at him today. But snake oil, and worst owner, and eXpOsEd? Nah.
Galloisdaman wrote:Worse than that he went on CNBC and laughed at Yahoo being scammed. That cost many yahoo shareholders (individual, mutual funds and pension funds) a lot of money. It is one thing for he to get a ridiculous amount of money for very little. Its another thing to gloat in the faces of people that lost money.
Texas Chuck wrote:Not defending Cuban's most recent actions but Dallas has won the 2nd most games in the Association in his tenure and only has 3 bad seasons in 2 decades. There is a long list of absolutely incompetent owners before you get to old Cuban. He spent gobs of money. He hired good people and kept them in place forever. Was the first owner to embrace analytics, was the owner responsible for major upgrades for players--I mean before Mark Cuban players sat on old unpadded folding chairs on the bench. He took it in the shorts for the entire league and as much as everyone still complains about officiating he is directly responsible for the increased transparency and accountability around officiating.
Easy to take your shots today. I'm pissed at him today. But snake oil, and worst owner, and eXpOsEd? Nah.
TheRealKaboom wrote:The sexual assault allegations he swept under the rug are disturbing. Why wasn't he transparent about that the way he was about the refs?Texas Chuck wrote:Not defending Cuban's most recent actions but Dallas has won the 2nd most games in the Association in his tenure and only has 3 bad seasons in 2 decades. There is a long list of absolutely incompetent owners before you get to old Cuban. He spent gobs of money. He hired good people and kept them in place forever. Was the first owner to embrace analytics, was the owner responsible for major upgrades for players--I mean before Mark Cuban players sat on old unpadded folding chairs on the bench. He took it in the shorts for the entire league and as much as everyone still complains about officiating he is directly responsible for the increased transparency and accountability around officiating.
Easy to take your shots today. I'm pissed at him today. But snake oil, and worst owner, and eXpOsEd? Nah.
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ThunderBolt wrote:I’m going to let some of you in on a little secret I learned on realgm. If you don’t like a thread, not only do you not have to comment but you don’t even have to open it and read it. You’re welcome.
Texas Chuck wrote:Even with such low hanging fruit this is a pretty bad troll job. I give it half a star. More effort next time. You left off Dairy Queen, ref baiting, Sharknado, driving around looking for DeAndre, the Frankenstein haircut, those awful football Mavs jersies he tried to make a thing for way too long, The Benefactor. And those are just the hits. Didn't even get into the deep cuts this sort of OP really requires.
Edrees wrote:Theo Ratliff wrote:Cuban's biggest fault is his loyalty to certain players/coaches. It set the Mavs back a decade.
If the mavs weren't bad the years before drafting Doncic they wouldn't have been in a position to draft him and they'd probably be a treadmill team now.Drafting an all time great like Doncic is the best result the Mavs could have hoped out of the last decade.
Pointgod wrote:If I’m a head coach or GM I’m staying the hell away from the Mavericks. The pressure to win is going to be immense. Will Cuban take a step back and empower his GM and coach to make the right decisions? I can see him pressuring a new GM to make some stupid moves like resigning Hardaway and trading more draft picks for a win now player.
durden_tyler wrote:Pointgod wrote:If I’m a head coach or GM I’m staying the hell away from the Mavericks. The pressure to win is going to be immense. Will Cuban take a step back and empower his GM and coach to make the right decisions? I can see him pressuring a new GM to make some stupid moves like resigning Hardaway and trading more draft picks for a win now player.
Maybe. But flipside is you're working with Luka, who's looking like at least a Top 3 player in the next 10 years. Which coach/player does not want to play with type of player?
Pointgod wrote:If I’m a head coach or GM I’m staying the hell away from the Mavericks. The pressure to win is going to be immense. Will Cuban take a step back and empower his GM and coach to make the right decisions? I can see him pressuring a new GM to make some stupid moves like resigning Hardaway and trading more draft picks for a win now player.
The problem has been that Cuban has spend money on a team that was always build for regular season success. It wasn't until we acquired Tyson Chandler that things changed and in viewed the team as a true title contender. Thankfully he failed his physical with Oklahoma City. Many of us on the Dallas forum wanted Tyson for awhile and viewed him as "the" piece we needed.Fadeaway_Jumper wrote:Mark Cuban is a great owner. Mavs were one of the first franchises to put the players first ahead of costs. Every podcast I’ve heard someone talk about Cuban they express how he has great character and mainly does right by people
Mav fans you guys are still in good hands
Leslie Forman wrote:durden_tyler wrote:Pointgod wrote:If I’m a head coach or GM I’m staying the hell away from the Mavericks. The pressure to win is going to be immense. Will Cuban take a step back and empower his GM and coach to make the right decisions? I can see him pressuring a new GM to make some stupid moves like resigning Hardaway and trading more draft picks for a win now player.
Maybe. But flipside is you're working with Luka, who's looking like at least a Top 3 player in the next 10 years. Which coach/player does not want to play with type of player?
We've seen big name players choose against playing with LeBron (even demand a trade away from him), why wouldn't some other guys decline to play with an even more ball dominant player?
