Mavericks: Age of talent-pooling is a good time to rebuild

Rebuilding is always painful but it seem the Dallas Mavericks picked the perfect time to start the process.

The Dallas Mavericks have finally come to grips with “the rebuilding process”. For years they’ve avoided it, preferring to target premium free agents and biding time with stopgap solutions along the way.

After years of failed attempts, the Mavs accepted reality last season and officially started the rebuilding process. They invested in young players and jettisoned older players. They committed financially to young prospects with potential, rather than try to just swing for the fences in free agency.

90 percent of the NBA season and postseason is extraordinarily futile. The best teams are so far ahead of the rest we might as well just skip to the finals.

Rebuilding is obviously never an easy thing for the teams or their fans, but considering the current landscape of the NBA, the Mavs picked the perfect time to rebuild and grow the franchise.

Super Teams

In case you’ve been sleeping the last decade you know that we are knee-deep in the super-team phenomenon.

Gone are the days of sticking with a singular franchise and living and dying by the team’s successes and failures. Nowadays free agency enables players to join forces, even if those “forces” are former rivals. The result of which is the super-team.

Dirk Nowitzki recently spoke on the matter, offering up his thoughts, both good and bad:

"“I think it hurts a little bit in the regular season. It hurts a little in the other rounds of the playoffs when there are sweeps left and right. It takes some of the drama away in the early rounds, which are usually so much fun. But that’s the way it is.”"

It’s true, the NBA Finals are fun to watch, even though they have been overwhelmingly one-sided. It features fantastic basketball delivered in an exciting style and performed by the game’s very best players.

Dirk admitted that talent-pooling makes the finals fun and I largely agree. The problem is the futility of the regular season and early rounds of the playoffs. 90 percent of the NBA season and postseason is extraordinarily futile. The best teams are so far ahead of the rest we might as well just skip to the finals.

NBA basketball is arguably the one place were the best teams always wins. Single-elimination tournaments like the NFL and NCAA use, provide room for a one-in-a-million upset. NHL is so low-scoring a hot goalie or lucky goal can steal a series from the better team as well. A dominant 1-2-3 rotation and/or hot hitter can also propel an inferior MLB team past it’s superior.

But not in the NBA. The best teams wins in the NBA and the best teams are the Cavs and the Warriors. And it ain’t even close.

What a poor time to be the San Antonio Spurs, right?

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In virtually any other time the Spurs would be running away with the trophy. But not these days. That’s why it’s a bad time to be a good NBA team because any achievement is inevitably all for naught.

The Mavs find themselves early in a rebuild. They have fun, young, developing players they can build around. They are likely years from being a contender again and by then, who knows what the NBA climate will look like?

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The super-team fad can’t last forever. Everyone wants to win so it’s hard to blame the players for wanting to join forces to compete, but it’s building an unsustainable structure that will eventually disinterest loyal NBA fans who cheer for the not-so-super-teams.

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