.......And the Mavericks are relatively young, what with starter Josh Howard and reserve Marquis Daniels completing their second seasons and Avery Johnson not even a half season into being a head coach.
So this would be a good time for Cuban to be really radical. Leave well enough alone for once.
This season's final roster included nine players who weren't here a season ago.
The campaign before last saw Antoine Walker acquired just before the season started and inserted into the starting lineup in place of Antawn Jamison, who was brought in via trade just a couple of months earlier.
But all the shaking up done in those seasons didn't win the ultimate prize. In fact, Cuban's best team was in 2002-03, when it won 60 games and advanced to the conference finals for only the second time in club history. The biggest personnel move made that year – with all due respect to Donnie Nelson's French import, the great Antoine Rigaudeau – was signing Walt Williams.
"Any team that's been together at least a year is going to get better naturally," Finley hypothesized. "San Antonio. Detroit. We see the success now."
There is nothing wrong with maintaining the status quo sometimes. This is one of those times.
After all, what does this team really need more than a little patience? They've got point guards. They've got shooting guards. They've got Dirk. They've got plenty of scoring.
Every now and then, they even have a center.
Could they use another backup power forward? Yes. But if that's their weakest link, that's not bad.
On top of it all, Cuban is over the cap, and the free-agent list for what they need isn't so enticing. Reggie Evans? Michael Ruffin? Stromile Swift? The perpetually available Brian Grant?
Everybody won't be back, of course. Darrell Armstrong and Alan Henderson probably walked out of the AAC's home locker room for the last time.
But there is no overwhelming reason to disturb the core of this group, as there was last summer, unless some general manager makes a particularly outrageous offer. That would be offering to swap their 7-foot superstar, Kevin Garnett, for the one here.
But that's not going to happen. So bag that thought, too.
), so bleibt dennoch dies bestehen: wir hätten keinen Center in Dallas und Walker wäre immernoch da. Und das Nellie-System müsste immernoch gespielt werden, was ja leider niemals einen Titel bringen wird. Und in Dallas würde Nash nicht so spielen, wie in Phoenix, da er nicht diese Slasher an seiner Seite hätte.
