So every once in a while on this show I like to amuse myself by looking at some of the

commentary the two places that are the most interesting is the comments on the public feed which when we actually were public were pretty much universally very good and now that we've taken it to Dunstan Prime it's usually more casuals of the show who are reviewing it and there are a lot of these.

Whoa, they don't like our favorite guy or my favorite, which is they make all these statements

and they never go back and look at him again and they never change their minds.

I'm like, yeah, you really just don't get the show because we hold ourselves accountable,

I think, more than just about anyone else.

That probably means that we have to admit that we're wrong more than just

about anybody else but that's the job and that's why you're presumably

listening to this because we actually try to get better and also just go back and try to look at where the conventional

wisdom failed. So let's begin here by regrading the off seasons from a year ago and Danny please give everyone the

spiel on how these grades work in truncated form before we. A C is

average not a B is average a C average, so you'll see a lot of scores in that range.

It is an organization franchise grade, so hiring of coaches, hiring of general managers, all that stuff counts,

willingness to spend to pay the tax,

particularly if you are a competitive team,

that counts.

And broadly speaking, we're focused on the windows that that team should be focused on.

So if you are a win now team and you made moves to win now, that's fine.

If you are a win eventually team and you make win now moves we might feel differently.

Let's start with the Dallas Mavericks and I think the way I'd like to do this this

year I don't know what do you think I was thinking maybe we could wait until the end to say what our original grades were and kind of try

I'm totally fine with that. Yeah and say oh yeah we were totally we'll kind of we'll try to look at it a little bit fresher.

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