***Official 2020-2021 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread***

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dave94
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South Platte said:

PatAg said:

More posts after one loss than on a 5 game winning streak
Dallas people don't like losing to Houston garbage and the worst team in the NBA. It's an alarming loss.


Eh, it was a night where Houston was hitting everything and the Mavs couldn't buy a bucket for several spurts.

I'm not worried but it sucks to lose these ones.
PatAg
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South Platte said:

PatAg said:

More posts after one loss than on a 5 game winning streak
Dallas people don't like losing to Houston garbage and the worst team in the NBA. It's an alarming loss.
It's not alarming in any way
Ol Jock 99
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Good win. Got a little dicey, but then they finished strong.
South Platte
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Great win. I'm here, roast me for last night. I don't care. Every game matters as we try to dig our way back to potentially a 4 seed and home court advantage.
mavsfan4ever
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1 game back of Portland. The standings are so weird this tamest that there is no telling what seed you want to end up with. Ideally you'd like to get to 4 for home court advantage but can't imagine that will happen with how well the top 4 are playing and how much ground we have to make up. And other than that, who knows what seeding you want.
NoahAg
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Alarming win
Saint Pablo
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Good win. I wish that I could watch on YouTubeTV.
MW03
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Saint Pablo said:

Good win. I wish that I could watch on YouTubeTV.
Hehe streams has been a godsend
Saint Pablo
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MW03 said:

Saint Pablo said:

Good win. I wish that I could watch on YouTubeTV.
Hehe streams has been a godsend

It annoys me to pull it up on my laptop and my roku is garbage for getting stuff on the TV.
MW03
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i sideloaded it onto my various firesticks and it's worked pretty well. i'd say it's good to go about 95% of the time.
Ol Jock 99
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Not great Bob.
awrollins
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Lucky shot. Great response to adversity however! Always love to see that in this young team!
BallerStaf2003
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That was frustrating to watch.

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M.C. Swag
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Mavs handing out Ws to the slumping texas teams was not fun. In isolation, losing to the spurs didn't bother me that much but considering we play the Sixers who absolutely own Luka, it's tough not to feel deflated about what will likely be back to back Ls.
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In the course of a game I think you would much rather a player take a contested mid-range shot than give up an open 3 pointer. Math is on your side on that one. However, in a final shot situation where a 2 pointer or a 3 pointer hurt you equally then you should attempt to funnel that ball to the open 3 point shooter. That is probably in the high 30% range as opposed to a mid-range shot (40% - 50%) by a guy who was cooking you the 2nd half. Plus if you rush a double team at around ~5 seconds left, even if the 3 point shot is made you would get the ball back with time to run a quick play. Unfortunate strategy by Carlisle at the end but give credit to DeRozan for dropping 25 in the second half.
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Just using the eye test, the physicality of philly is much much tougher than the mavs. I thought we got some dogs?

Still hoping for the W. Luka is very dialed in.
Ol Jock 99
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Embiid is a beast. We don't have anyone that can physically match up with him. Not that many others do...
MW03
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Does the NBA call flops anymore or no?
MW03
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Simmons should be fouled our by now...
Saint Pablo
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Man the ESPN crew is being tough on Luka.
EconAg18
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Compared to his March stats, THJ is having a tough April so far. Need him to get out of this slump
Saint Pablo
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Man the ESPN crew is being tough on Luka.
Saint Pablo
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The strategy for resting KP does not make sense to me. If you're gonna rest him against the 6ers, might as well give Luka the night off too. Because everyone knew how this was going to go.
keithd03
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Can't have your 2nd best player be an every other night player and expect real success
Ol Jock 99
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keithd03 said:

Can't have your 2nd best player be an every other night player and expect real success
I have but one blue star to give, and thus I giveth it to you.
PatAg
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Saint Pablo said:

Man the ESPN crew is being tough on Luka.
They never have any idea what the **** they are talking about.
Saint Pablo
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PatAg said:

Saint Pablo said:

Man the ESPN crew is being tough on Luka.
They never have any idea what the **** they are talking about.
You are not wrong. Very odd that they were so critical of his body language and "leadership"...we are without our second best player and were outmanned by a pretty wide margin. Why wouldn't he be frustrated? I wonder if they were as critical of LeBron his first year with LA
MW03
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Same group will talk about Kawhi Leonard, Russel Westbrook, and James Harden glowingly.
Saint Pablo
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MW03 said:

Same group will talk about Kawhi Leonard, Russel Westbrook, and James Harden glowingly.
Yup. It is odd to me the way many media members seem to dislike Luka.
Saint Pablo
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Since Luka was asked about it in the postgame presser, the play in game is complete GARBAGE. Especially considering it impacts the 7 and 8 seeds.
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It's really ****ing dumb. It made sense last year as a compromise to teams on the bubble that didn't have enough runway to make a move into the playoffs, but this year everyone knows the length of the season and you've got 72 games to earn your way in.
Saint Pablo
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hph6203 said:

It's really ****ing dumb. It made sense last year as a compromise to teams on the bubble that didn't have enough runway to make a move into the playoffs, but this year everyone knows the length of the season and you've got 72 games to earn your way in.
I wouldn't have a huge issue with an 8-9 play in game where 9 has to win 2 games to get in and 8 only needs 1, but the current system is horrid.
M.C. Swag
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Saint Pablo said:

hph6203 said:

It's really ****ing dumb. It made sense last year as a compromise to teams on the bubble that didn't have enough runway to make a move into the playoffs, but this year everyone knows the length of the season and you've got 72 games to earn your way in.
I wouldn't have a huge issue with an 8-9 play in game where 9 has to win 2 games to get in and 8 only needs 1, but the current system is horrid.
I wouldn't have a problem with it if they just got rid of conference seeding. Just do at large seeding with the 15-20 spots do the play in.

The Mavs would be the 9 seed in an overall NBA playoff seed playoffs and safely out of the play in.
Saint Pablo
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https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31249644/dallas-mavericks-owner-mark-cuban-says-nba-play-tournament-plan-enormous-mistake

Interesting article. Agree with the point, but makes Cuban look petty since he was a part of the governor's board that voted unanimously for this.
 
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