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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys


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33 minutes ago, cafe society said:

He's the worst in the league, for sure.  

easily.  He's not worse than Angel Hernandez in MLB but he is horrible.  I don't think it is a Mavs thing necessarily, he's just incompetent.

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29 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

If he’s so bad, how does he get assigned to playoff games?  Not a defense of his competence, but an admonition of the league in thumbing the scale.

seniority

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5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

If he’s so bad, how does he get assigned to playoff games?  Not a defense of his competence, but an admonition of the league in thumbing the scale.

Weird, if I didn’t know better I would think lengthening a series benefits the league.

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6 hours ago, cafe society said:

He's the worst in the league, for sure.  

He’s no Scott Foster.

7 hours ago, TxTower said:


Is Tony Brothers the worst in the league or does he just hate the Mavericks?

He doesn’t hate the Mavs, he’s just a company man.

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22 hours ago, Skipper said:

This is just a truly unbelievable DFW sports heater.   And I'll say this.  I gave the high priced Mavs crowd some shit at half in this thread. That arena seemed loud as hell in the 4th.  Props to anyone who went.

I was at the game, and the crowd was loud in the second half.

I was also joking to my wife that Luka ran off the court in the first quarter to take a dump. Glad I got confirmation in this thread.

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8 minutes ago, Dr Fear said:

Mavs gotta be small favorites??

Minn roughed the Mavs up a couple of times in the season right?  and they have home court and were the 3 seed.  I have to believe Minn will be favored.

I guess I'd rather not face Jokic who could probably face rape us.

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Minn roughed the Mavs up a couple of times in the season right?  and they have home court and were the 3 seed.  I have to believe Minn will be favored.
I guess I'd rather not face Jokic who could probably face rape us.

Didn’t get a real Mavs team in our home games. Dallas punted both and rested Luka IIRC
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11 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

Dallas played the T-Wolves four times between 12/14/23 and 1/31/24. So all pre-trade. Minny hasn’t played the current Mavs lineup. 

https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/timberwolves-last-5-games-vs-mavs

Yep really hard to judge regular season results in today's NBA anyways. So many variables at play be it load management, back to backs, 3 games in 4 days, injuries. And yes, pre-trade rosters for teams who make moves.

Minnesota going to very tough. I too wanted Jokic out the playoffs so we don't have to deal with him but I don't see this as Boston getting an inferior Indiana team in its place. Minnesota looked dead in the water after dropping both games at home after going up 2-0 on the road. Then lost game 5, I for sure thought they were toast. The way they fought back in game 7 on the road was as gritty as it gets. Ant is a junkyard dog out there and reminds me of a young Kobe. He knows he's good and will tell you about it. I love watching him play. He had Murray in fits all series. Murray got majority of his points on screens and switches when Ant wasn't guarding him. Going to need a big series from our bigs and I think they can do that,.

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I heard Hayward's interview on this morning's local radio. Yeah, clearly not happy that he barely played this year. The joke was that the fans have more buckets in the playoffs than Hayward because three fans have made halfcourt shots during those prize segments.

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10 hours ago, RexWilson said:

I would feel better if we had a healthy Maxi for this series. Going to need more depth C/PF and his ability to spread our offense would help. 

Being able to go small and have Maxi pull Gobert out of the paint would have been nice to have. I heard on the Hoop Collective the other day that Maxi started very light basketball activities, but I can't imagine he's going to be ready to play a major part in the series. 

I do wonder if they'll run some small ball lineups with PJ as the 5. We're going to have to find a way to play Gobert off the floor IMO. 

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I'm sure we will see a good bit of small ball with Gobert on the floor. After game 1 of the Utah series, he only played more than 30 minutes once the rest of the series after Dallas went small. I can't imagine Kidd doesn't try to replicate some of that strategy early.

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I'm sure we will see a good bit of small ball with Gobert on the floor. After game 1 of the Utah series, he only played more than 30 minutes once the rest of the series after Dallas went small. I can't imagine Kidd doesn't try to replicate some of that strategy early.
Utah didn't have a 7 ft KAT and a 6'9" Jaden McDaniels sharing the floor with Rudy and a 6'9" Kyle Anderson coming off the bench. I don't think we'll see significant time without either lively or gafford on the floor. Hope maxi comes back at full strength and in stride.

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