The road to 50: It is done

[Scott41theMavs]

What is the formula for beating the Mavs? Here’s what Sacto has, which apparently isn’t enough:

1. Long, athletic, defensive-minded forward to mess with Luka.
2. Bigs and backup bigs to slow the dunkathon.
3. Guards who can punish weaker perimeter defenders and hit floaters over athletic bigs.
4. A potent 3-point game to force those athletic bigs out to the 3-point line.

Maybe you also need a transcendent star who can get you buckets in crunch time with the same kind of clutch proficiency as Kyrie and Luka?

I dunno. Hometown refs seems like the key to me. We’ll probably get a game or 2 of that down the stretch.

LOL, the story of the entire season, until recently, has been that every game against the Mavs for the other 29 teams is a home game for them. However, some have noted that Luka seems to have swallowed his anti-ref whistle the past three games, which fits with the rule changes. We have five dawgs (Landlord, PJail, DLive, Maxi, and DJJ) to lay lumber and make the refs walk the walk with regard to the new rules. It won't be good to play the Mavs in the playoffs.