Once again, no offensive flow. Its hard to watch the offensive slowly fall apart as the season progresses

Bad offense happens from time to time. The stat that jumps out at me is rebounding, which was 62-39 in favor of OKC. Worse, OKC grabbed 21 offensive boards to Dallas' 25 defensive boards. A defensive rebounding rate of 54 percent is absolutely horrific.

This team sucks. Keyword team. Players are great. But the team currently sucks.

Rajon Rondo since going to Dallas:

9.0 points pg
6.5 assists pg
4.9 rebounds pg
1.5 steals pg
2.8 turnovers pg
.396 fg %
.286 ft %
.421 ts%
.017 win shares

+ 5.5 per 100 possessions (Nelson +7.3 prior to leaving Dallas, Barea +6.9, Harris
+5.8)

Also, if you take all possible 4 man player combinations with the Mavs, the top ranked combination that includes Rondo is ranked 14th.

There is no argument to be made that Rondo has helped this team. The net effect (even when considering that he may help a little on D) is drastically negative.

You meant 3P% right? Not FT% I hope

Unfortunately I don't think Amare helps this team either. He is a black hole on offense and doesn't care on defense. Even when Amare was putting up big numbers, he NEVER passed the ball. I know Dallas desperately needed SOMEONE to give them 15 minutes under the basket, but Amare isn't that guy. Just a flyer on a bad fit.

Guys who take 15-17 footers every time they touch the ball and only hit 42% don't help, especially if they have always been a bad defender. Then you add Rondo destroying ball movement and making 35% of his shots, and you destroy what was a great offense.

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No, I meant FT%. Scary, I know.

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Fum game tonight, but a lot closer than the score. Despite being up 20 in the 3rd, Houston trimmed it to 5 in the 4th and if a few wide open 3s fall, that might have been a loss.

Watching from the stands, they were so sloppy moving the ball. The backcourt was lazy bringing the ball up, and the defensive rebounding is worse in person. Harris was huge, though, and Tyson logged another double double. Good win, but a lot to fix.

Also, Charlie V looks like he was just unplugged from the Matrix.

Sloppy win vs the Bobcats.

Excited to see how Stoudemire will develop into his new role. He showed some good flashes tonight and had a good line with fairly limited minutes

Bobcats huh

lol...I thought we played New Orleans.

You're both wrong, we played the Hornets.

I'll take these 2 wins against the rockets and hornets. Excited about Amar'e's debut. 14 points in 11 minutes - not bad at all.

Tougher test against Toronto tonight.

Major fail on my part #dunce

Rajon/Carlisle get into it - didn't take long for that to blow up.

When did that happen? What point in game and for what reason? I missed it.

Happened in the third quarter- word is Carlisle was apparently calling something at Rondo and he ignored it, and when Carlisle called a time out the exchange happened, and Rondo never went back in the game. He really wasn't playing well anyway, which I'm sure lead to him getting benched. Game sure did turn around after Rondo's benching.

Has there been any speculation or rumors about the Mavs' plans for this offseason? Aside from Dirk, Parsons, and Devin Harris, everyone has the potential to be a free agent.

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I think it's safe to say that Tyson is a lock for them to bring back next season- not that there's speculation out there of anything different, I just think they're in a much better position to sign him to a more long-term deal this time around than after the 2011 season- and Tyson has certainly once again demonstrated his value to the team, even if they don't go far in the playoffs.

After that, I'd love for them to target Aminu. And I think Dwight Powell has a future here.

I hope Rondo works out in some way.

Mavs suspend Rondo for one game.

We need monte back. Dude has been huge in the fourth quarter

No amare, Tyson, rondo, or parsons tonight on the second night of a back to back vs the Hawks. Ouch

"Lose the battle, win the war" game from the Popovich playbook.

Blah, back to back nationally televised games, and they have to be on the west coast.

We have a ton of nationally televised games coming up.

First one didn't go so well

Mavs are really blowing it for me this year.

So glad I turned it off after the first half. At least it's just Golden State tonight.

We normally sit DIrk on the 2nd night of back to backs, and so far amare as well. Tyson's 2nd game back from injury, maybe parson's first game back. jj barea out injured, and devin harris out injured

Just to prove us wrong, we win by 8.

Parsons isnt expected back until Sunday

In a battle with the Lakers right now. LA has gotten some amazingly lucky shots to drop, and the mavs are getting killed on the glass.

Aminu continues to impress. He has been awesome tonight

Monta's slump is over.

A win is a win. I had to follow it on my phone, but it looked like Monta lit it up. 3 3s in a minute or so?