Quote:Cuban was moved to comment on the state of the team before the game. He undertook to give unhappy fans some facts about COVID. DFS had said it felt like a very severe cold, but Cuban says it is not like a cold, where a person is ready to go as soon as it is over with, and described it as “brutal.”
He pointed out that the time between a positive diagnosis and returning to play is about three weeks, and two of those involve “sitting in a room” and not being active, and then there are more days before the player can be around the team. They have had one of the worst outbreaks in the league, and he opined that things were going to look “out of balance” for a while.
Really difficult I think to make roster moves based on this season. The pandemic and how it happens to affect your team is a much bigger part of the story than the league and maybe anybody wants to talk about. Being a respiratory disease obviously impacts athletics much more than other sicknesses or even many other injuries, and some of that is still unknown.
Players and coaches want to focus on the things they can control and the virus is not always one of them. As Cuban pointed out, the Mavs have been hit harder than other teams at this point.
This is arguably much more of an aberration of a season than the bubble was where at least most players were playing healthy and could safely get together among themselves. The luck of the pandemic draw is definitely affecting the Mavs.