HALLELUKA: Luka Clinches All-NBA 1st team. 4th in 5 years

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What would the "hype" be, exactly? Something the Mavs have said, like the "we'll see what we have..." quotes?

Oh, just similar to the hype around the hiring of Nico and Kidd. A lot of fanfare about how great Nico's connections are, and how much players around the league want to play for Kidd, and how they are going to be so aggressive in free agency. Suggesting big positive changes for the roster. I don't necessarily blame them for "hyping" their new acquisitions, just think the end result didn't live up to the created expectations.

The coaching situation may or may not be similar. This situation is being sold as one in which fans need to have patience, since they are working on a new system, and the growing pains are designed to end in a leap in performance. That all may be absolutely true, but it's also what a team with a new coach and a struggling offense would say, isn't it? 

As we impatient fans aren't seeing much week-to-week progress, it is natural to wonder whether this experimentation is really leading anywhere, or is just a lot of scurrying around that may not result in getting much accomplished. 

For my part, I suspect that there really is a method in the madness. But also, that hype is what PR departments are hired to do. We have been encouraged to expect that this seemingly chaotic situation is leading to bigger and better things. Maybe the eventual performance will live up to that. We just don't know, yet.   

Wasn't meant to be especially pejorative of the Mavs.