Quote:
Originally Posted by Magnum_3_Ball
Seems like Jae Crowder was better in Boston than he was with us.
Look I'm not trying to attack Carlisle or anything. I'm simply asking if we gave up on Noel too soon, or if so, is our scouting department really that bad?
The answers are scouting department is just fine, and how dare you criticize Rick Carlisle. Jesus. What is this communist Russia where you can't ask questions? Just rubber stamp everything the Mavs do.
Maybe the real reason Carlisle hasn't had many young players fail in Dallas & go onto be better somewhere else is because the Mavs fail to draft quality young players to begin with.
|
Mavs have treated the draft poorly for a long time, it's pretty well documented. But with Noel it's not a difficult puzzle. Idk why you are making it more than it is. We traded for a guy who was disgruntled and likely had some red flags. We gave up 2 2nds and a guy who looks to be another draft bust. If it worked out we have a center for a decade to anchor a team around. If it doesn't then we lost very little. It's not up to RC to teach a guy how to give effort. And it's not like these kinds of things don't occasionally work out. Randy Moss oakland to Pats comes to mind. It worked out, briefly, then he was back to being Randy.
And nobody is rubber stamping the Mavs as infallible. But looking for answers about why a guy who can't be motivated to give effort when the reward is literally millions upon millions of dollars, and then blaming RC for somehow not finding a way to motivate a guy when money is all he cares about yet he doesn't want to work for said money... yeah that is nonsensical. Everyone here questions the FO all the time, we joke about the same god damn blueprint in FA every off season. We joke about RC's weird lineups, so Idk where this rubber stamping is coming from. It's just in this instance I don't think there is some great mystery to be solved. The guy has a problem with work ethic but wants to be paid like he's the best player on the team. We lost minimal assets in the low risk gamble. Mystery solved.