Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban Should Trade Dirk Nowitzki

So now Cuban has this incredibly conventional team, and incredibly conventional coach, and an incredibly conventional system. This is why Dirk looked so terrible in the playoffs this season, because the team doesn't complement Dirk at all, and the system doesn't use Dirk's unique talents at all. They are just completely wasted because Avery tries to use Dirk like Tim Duncan , offensive rebounding, posting up constantly.  Not using Dirk
as a perimeter scorer and not using his shooting to spread the floor.  Dirk needs to be used like Kobe or Allen Iverson, but Avery is using him like any other conventional power forward and it's not working.  Because Dirk is just a normal power forward if he isn't using his unique gifts.  In fact, the way the Mavs have built the team and are using Dirk, many times he looks like a subpar power forward. Because he can't even use his skills and gifts.  Dirk's trying to be something he isn't.  If Dirk had been used like this when he first came into the league he would have ended up back in Germany. He never would have had a chance to show what he can do.  

The reality is that it is easier now to just trade Dirk for a lesser conventional player than it is to keep Dirk and try to figure out some way to blow the team up and put all the new players that need to be around Dirk and find a coach brilliant enough and UN-conventional enough to make Dirk as good as he can be. The Mavs don't even have a GM smart enough to figure out how to build around Dirk anymore, Cuban is basically the GM and he doesn't even understand how to build a conventional team, let alone a team to complement Dirk, and Avery wouldn't know how to use the correct roster anyway even if he had it.

The bottom line is there's no going back. The Mavs can't get Nellie back. They can't get another Nellie. They can't get Nash back. They can't get the player they need to pair with Dirk, because the only way you can get those players is through the draft.  At some point Cuban decided he wanted to make a conventional team.  It's time for him to finally finish the transformation and replace the Mavs ultra-UNconventional star with an ultra conventional one.. for everyone's sake.

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