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stuportremens · 07-13-2016, 05:01 AM

There's not much to question here, as far as "why didn't player x, y or z sign with us" is concerned.

It's pretty rare that a team manages to sign a top FA in free agency. And when it happens, the FA usually signs with a team that's in a big market like LA and / or has top level talent so the chance to win a championship is very high.

So, for Dallas, it was always going to be a long shot. The odds for it to work were always very low. Nobody needs to question why it didn't happen. If something has a 5% chance of happening, it has a 95% chance of not happening, so if the 95% materialize, nobody should be surprised.

The only thing that really needs to be questioned is why the team decided to go for such a low-percentage shot in the first place - and why they misjudged the value of signed players so badly.
Assuming that other teams would be forced to drop their players into the Mavs' lap because of the new CBA that nobody else understood.

That was just monumentally stupid.

07-13-2016, 05:01 AM	#33
stuportremens Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 123	There's not much to question here, as far as "why didn't player x, y or z sign with us" is concerned. It's pretty rare that a team manages to sign a top FA in free agency. And when it happens, the FA usually signs with a team that's in a big market like LA and / or has top level talent so the chance to win a championship is very high. So, for Dallas, it was always going to be a long shot. The odds for it to work were always very low. Nobody needs to question why it didn't happen. If something has a 5% chance of happening, it has a 95% chance of not happening, so if the 95% materialize, nobody should be surprised. The only thing that really needs to be questioned is why the team decided to go for such a low-percentage shot in the first place - and why they misjudged the value of signed players so badly. Assuming that other teams would be forced to drop their players into the Mavs' lap because of the new CBA that nobody else understood. That was just monumentally stupid. Last edited by stuportremens; 07-13-2016 at 05:04 AM.