Apologize to Coach Rick

[soog]

It was also one of the league's worst defenses.

Kidd isn't making the Mavs miss wide open threes and RC didn't make them make wide open threes. There is so much more going on than to scapegoat coaching at this point. 

Also, this team is 3-2 (same record as DEN and better than LAL, for example) with its only losses against two of the top teams in the league ON THE ROAD. Yes, they were UGLY. Yes, there are ISSUES to discuss. But this team is still 3-2 and has showed lots of promise on D and has also missed a lot of wide open shots. Let's let this play out some more before concluding it is coaching.

I find point differential is a better evaluation of where a team stands than record early in a season.  By the end of a season a team’s record will converge to its differential.  These mavs are much worse than the 3-2 record indicates.  The eye test tells you that and the differential confirms it.  They squeaked out small wins against bad teams and were blown out by good teams.

Point differential has them 12th in the west, which looking at the teams above and below them seems about right with the way they have been playing.