(01-15-2023, 01:35 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: I'm so tired of the constant circletalk with Brunson.

(01-15-2023, 03:30 PM)Jym Wrote: It didn't work out, but I wasn't mad that Nash left in the moment. I really thought he was on his last leg and falling apart 
The Brunson and Tyson decisions bummed me the fucked out tho. Both indefensible as far as I'm concerned

(01-15-2023, 05:30 PM)sterlingmallory Wrote: This. If news had come out that the Mavs had at the very least matched NY's AAV on a 4 year deal or hopefully offered something like the 5/130-140 I suggested earlier and he STILL chose the Knicks, then I would at least respect that and would agree that he was headed to NY no matter what. But I just don't buy that argument when MacMahon has mentioned multiple times that the Mavs were firm at their "Fred Van Vleet money" offer (5/110).

(01-15-2023, 05:30 PM)sterlingmallory Wrote: Sorry you guys are so sick of talking about Brunson, but it's relevant considering we're in the exact same situation again with Wood.

(01-15-2023, 07:13 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Sure, but it's actually even more relevant than that, considering the lowered quality of play that seems mostly due to Brunson's departure. The team is really paying the price for this disaster, and while I can understand the inclination not to focus on the negative and depressing with one's free time, I can't understand the need to tell others they're wrong to acknowledge the extent to which a disaster is disastrous. The truth is that losing Brunson for nothing is as bad or worse than the failed Porzingis trade with NY, and the team is STILL trying to recover from that, years later. Now, they pile the Brunson thing on top? This was a REALLY bad mistake.

(01-15-2023, 07:46 PM)sterlingmallory Wrote: Can you imagine how good this team would be had we kept Brunson along with trading for Wood? There was like a 1 week period last June after the Wood trade that I was on absolute cloud nine thinking we would be a legitimate contender very soon. We would have had 3 playmaking guards AND the dynamic pick and roll partner I thought we were missing for Luka. The offense would have been unstoppable. Then with all of our picks coming available soon, we would have had enough assets to really start upgrading the defense around those guys and filling any other holes.

Instead we're now just hoping we can use even more assets to fill the hole we already had covered had we just kept the guys we already had.

(01-16-2023, 08:07 AM)Chicagojk Wrote: This season feels like 1 step forward, 1 step back with a whole bunch of frustrating play.   Besides that run against poor teams (most close games too), this team has not had the ability to build momentum.

These next 4 games at home are important.  The first three are against teams who had higher expectations entering the year.  They have had similar ups and downs as the Mavs.   Mavs need to play good ball and find ways to win.   The fourth game is against Washington.    It would be great to go 4-0, but I will say 3-1 to allow for a tough loss.  Anything less will be disappointing.   It will be tough though.

(01-16-2023, 12:06 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: Can we please just get some players healthy?

(01-16-2023, 12:11 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: This. The team was missing 5 of its top 8 players last night. It's pro sports, so you need a "next man up" mentality, of course, but I feel like people aren't cutting them any slack.

(01-16-2023, 12:22 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: Iztok had a tweet showing offensive and defensive rating by team over time this season and Dallas basically hit top 10 defense right before Green/Finney/Maxi went down and then all hell broke loose on that end. I actually commend this team for being able to go 9-5 or whatever it’s at now over that timeframe while also missing games from Luka/Wood/Hardaway throughout as well. If you had told me that would be the situation/result I would have given it a resounding thumbs up (doesn’t mean it’s any more enjoyable to watch in the moment).

It’s a long season and everyone deals with injuries but man it’s impossible to gain any real understanding of how to get the most out of this roster when it’s never whole. Hopefully that slowly starts to change over the next week or so.

Quote:During their seven-game winning streak, they were outrebounded five times, tied the board game once and won it by three rebounds in the other game.

They were a total of minus-47 on the glass in those seven games (minus 6.7 rebounds per game).

(01-16-2023, 09:01 PM)sefant Wrote: They also got pounded on the glass during that winning streak and nearly all season. Mavs are playing NBA at hard mode. Not much defense + maybe the worst rebounding team in the NBA.

(01-17-2023, 11:52 AM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: Cato on his podcast saying that Green should be back tomorrow night for the Hawks game.

(01-17-2023, 03:03 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Kidd said both Green and DFS both practiced and hopeful both can go tomorrow.   Hardaway did not practice, so he is probably out, I think

(01-16-2023, 11:43 PM)MaxiThreeba Wrote: Mark Cuban is too busy emailing mural artists for being “disrespectful” to realize he’s about to commit the same mistake two years in a row.

(01-17-2023, 04:23 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: from John Hollinger

travel Geekery: Dallas and Portland
I stopped in Portland this past weekend to catch back-to-back meetings between Dallas and Portland, and the less we say about the games, the better. It was a good showcase of life in the middle of the Western Conference pack, with Dallas betraying its mid-road-trip wear and tear just as the Blazers were coming back to full strength.
The Blazers ended up smashing Dallas twice, but the bigger takeaways came in talking to people around these teams and thinking about their futures. Neither is good enough to contend for anything important right now despite the individual brilliance Luka Dončić and Damian Lillard (averaging a cool 38 points per game over his last five games), but both clubs could be stealth trade deadline entrants.


Dallas played without Christian Wood in the first game and Dončić in the second, and it underscored how wanting the rest of the roster is. Spencer Dinwiddie has been the Mavs’ only other reliably productive player; Dallas, amazingly, has used five different players at least 250 minutes this season who have produced a single-digit PER (and, no, JaVale McGee isn’t one of them).

Standing $15 million into the tax, locked in on some ugly contracts (including the recent McGee own goal) and already owing a 2023 first to the Knicks, it’s not totally clear how the Mavs can fix this in the short term. Wood is a free agent after the season whose price tag is going up, which means the tax is likely in play for 2023-24 as well. Can Dallas use a 2025 first to get out of this mess? Is Josh Green enough of a carrot to swing a deal? Can I interest you in Dāvis Bertāns? Expect the Mavs to be active, but it’s going to be hard to do anything that moves the needle prior to the offseason, when Dallas’ 2024 first-rounder is in play.