Time to acknowledge reality

[DrMav]

Sorry that I called you an Eyeor.  That better?

I said right before I clicked into the board last night, "wonder how fast the overactors hit the board?"  Then the first post I hit was yours, wiring about the Mavs, so I overreacted to it also.

When our team starts doing this when everyone is healthy or at least we don't have 2 of our top 3 players out and probably or best perimeter defender and secondary playmaker out... I'll worry, but I'm not freaking out.

It seems we have at least a couple differences in opinion. 


First, I don’t think I’m overreacting. It is easy for any of us to quickly react to highs or lows in the moment of a game, so I can see how this could be painted as one of those, however this is not a single game occurrence. The lack of closing ability, killer instinct, clutch play, or whatever you want to call it has been seen throughout the season at various points.

Second, you seem to think these shortcomings are primarily a product of injuries to top players. While that does play a role I think, I would also say that I don’t think it is a good enough explanation for how the quality of play drops in crunch time, as it has been an issue even when in good health. 

I think the struggles are more obvious now because when players are healthy, we’ve been a lot better than most teams and haven’t had as much crunch time, but there still have been issues when those situations have occurred. 

Of course if after losing our players to short term injuries we started losing due to what looked like a talent issue, and people started saying we weren’t contenders because of it, that would be an overreaction, but that’s not what’s happening here I don’t think.

As we watch more and more of our team, we gather more information about them to try and use to project out how they’ll do when playoffs come. I enjoy tweets about Luka and his ridiculous stats and where that places him in history as much as anyone, but it’s nice to have other stuff to discuss too. 

If you want to discuss the actual points and whether you totally disagree or whatever, that’s fine, but to just label things an overreaction seems to miss the point (willingly or not).

Apologies if any of this is difficult to read, writing from my phone.