Hind Sight is 20/20

[zookman65]

With Tyson Chandler coming back to the AAC for the first time since the championship celebration, I look back sadly. The more I think about it, the more I think we should have given Chandler a nice deal and kept him in Dallas.

The guy was a journeyman before Dallas, and it seemed he had found a real home here. He was good in the community and on the court, and he just fit in. His weaknesses were made up by Dirks strength, and Dirks weaknesses were made up for through Tyson's strengths.

I know everyone wants to hope for the sexy vision of Dwight and Deron, but that is a VERY best case scenario way of thinking. If I could do it over again, I think we should have signed Chandler(who is still very young) and then made a big run at a player like Deron Williams.

Sure if you get Howard, you can say, well we don't need Chandler. But if next season you go into games without Howard or Tyson, then I think it really starts to hurt.

Just my 2 cents, looking back makes me happy, and sad.

You were correct. Cuban and the organization misread the effect the CBA would have from a team building perspective. Would have been better off to run everyone back the next year with a chance to defend whether they would have won or not but at least tried. Letting everyone go with the hope of "keeping powder dry" turns out to be a bad strategy across the NBA. 7 years removed we are heading backward. Hindsight is 20/20 and we should have tried to defend! End of story

[zookman65]

The game changed with the new cba. We night not see it this season but come next season the new luxury tax will begin to hurt a lot of teams. I actually think our FO is being very smart knowing of the changes that are coming and preparing.

This ended up being funny. Cuban now readily admits he misunderstood the impact of the CBA at the time. He assumed the play was to keep your powder dry where the play was to have assets you could flip. Had he to do it over again he would have brought back the entire 2011 team for another 3 years. Chasing free agents with your dry powder was a fools errand.