11-09-2025, 08:27 PM
(11-08-2025, 03:15 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: That phase happened so quick because the Mavs were good immediately following, and had a finals appearance (and should've had a ring) not just 2 years later.
If the team fell apart after 2004 and had to tank, I think the Nash debacle would've been felt a lot worse.
The Mavs had ideally the perfect team around Luka and were poised to prove their finals run wasn't a fluke. They never got that chance. And now instead of high level basketball the next 3-4 years we are restarting all over again for seemingly no reason at all.
All true, except for one thing. We can't even restart yet. We're still stuck in the nightmare. Getting Flagg made us feel a little better before the season started because it felt like we could start over. But the season has brought reality back to the fore.
Not very astute ^^^^
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