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shack009 said:
Naji Marshall is really good at basketball. Caleb Martin is good at basketball. Max Christie is good at basketball.
People who think the roster isn't primed for a run next year don't know anything about basketball.
They won't get past the lakers. The mavs are done until they sell the team.
Caleb Martin was -10, 1/6 from the fired and 0/3 from 3. And his shot looks completely broken. What about that screams that he's good at basketball? Let's compare him to say quentin grimes for example.
It is wild how confident you are given that you have the bet on the health of so many guys who are injury prone and old. Especially when Kyrie is missing a chunk of the year, if not a majority of the year.shack009 said:
Naji Marshall is really good at basketball. Caleb Martin is good at basketball. Max Christie is good at basketball.
People who think the roster isn't primed for a run next year don't know anything about basketball.
Fans at tonight's @FCDallas game chant "Fire Nico" at the 77th min. @dallasmavs pic.twitter.com/a1BIueeiON
— RayRachel (@RayRachelTV) March 9, 2025
You could tell he's a much better defender than grimes and he can guard much bigger players than Grimes can. Did some nice things guarding KD.
He had a bad shooting night. His shot has always looked like that. He also had a sick and-1 attacking a close out. You can tell he's good at basketball.
He had a bad shooting night. His shot has always looked like that. He also had a sick and-1 attacking a close out. You can tell he's good at basketball.
I'm not betting on the health of the team, but if it's healthy, it's really good.
I understand that none of y'all watched the game, but there was good basketball happening. That was without any sort of defensive rim presence.
I understand that none of y'all watched the game, but there was good basketball happening. That was without any sort of defensive rim presence.
Defending this pile of **** is hilarious on its own, but combining it with telling everyone who disagrees they don't know anything about basketball is incredible work.
shack009 said:
I'm not betting on the health of the team, but if it's healthy, it's really good.
I understand that none of y'all watched the game, but there was good basketball happening. That was without any sort of defensive rim presence.
Caleb Martin is a back end bench player. The very definition of a role player. He got extremely hot against the Celtics 2 years ago in the playoffs but before that he was meddling with being out of the league.
Good player in the sense that he is playing NBA ball, but if you're using him as part of your reasoning for a title run, I'm going to have to disagree.
Me noticing the roster is still good is not defending the front office.
Not noticing the roster is still good, when healthy, is to not know basketball.
Not noticing the roster is still good, when healthy, is to not know basketball.
He's absolutely a rotation player on a playoff team.
shack009 said:
Me noticing the roster is still good is not defending the front office.
Not noticing the roster is still good, when healthy, is to not know basketball.
The roster is good on paper. But it offends everyone's sensibilities that the Mavs tried to play this off as a "win now" move and that AD is somehow more reliable than Luka.
It's almost a law that if you take this kind of gamble you're going to get the horns. AD was GOING to get hurt. And Kyrie was going to breakdown. Both are undeniably gifted basketball players. Kyrie is a hooper but he isn't the model of someone that does all he needs to do to maintain his body especially at his age. And AD needs no explanation.
It's ****in unfortunate for the Mavs fans, but they're probably an awesome video game team.
Now, if their "win now" and "more reliable" reasoning was complete horse ****, why did they make the trade? What's the reason?
Don't do that. You can have a disagreement with someone without doing the "do you even watch bro" schtick.shack009 said:
I'm not betting on the health of the team, but if it's healthy, it's really good.
I understand that none of y'all watched the game, but there was good basketball happening. That was without any sort of defensive rim presence.
I've attended the games and Christie was not a good defender on KD (he was decent on about everyone else though). I'm not gonna crush him because he's being asked to play an absurd amount of minutes in a role he should never have. Ideally, he and Naji are 6th/7th men and since his first handful of games after the trade, Christie has come down to earth. But to be clear - - there's nothing about this roster that is better now than it was 2 months ago. Mavs future title hopes are much lower and the path is much narrower.
Yes, these players are playing hard and basically going 5 out offense, but it's not working. They shot 40% from 3pt, banked SEVEN more 3s than the Suns and still lost. This is a woefully mediocre Suns team and the Mavs still lost despite the massive 3pt advantage (something that rarely happens in the NBA nowadays). This team loses by 20+ if they simply shoot average from 3pt because they have no other ways of scoring.
"I'm not betting on health, but if it's healthy"....that's literally betting on health. Kyrie is going to miss 3/4 of next season and then be asked to do AGAIN what led to his injury (play the most minutes at an elite level). Who is our starting PG until then? Dinwiddie? Exum? Brandon Williams? I don't care if AD is healthy (something that likely will not happen either), there's no contending with backcourt 'talent' that subpar.
So if Kyrie isn't back to 100% pre-injury Kyrie, the Mavs don't have any realistic chance of competing until the 2026-2027 season and that is scary.
To be clear, I'm not blaming anybody who didn't watch. I totally understand not watching at this point. I wouldn't have watched if it weren't against the Suns.
But the team was missing its 5 most important players (AD, Kyrie, PJ, Lively, Gafford) right now, so expecting anything from them is silly. The point is that it is a team full of role players and they showed that they are plenty good at basketball to help a team win in the playoffs.
I'm not expecting wins (I don't want wins), but they have played some good basketball in heavily increased roles.
But the team was missing its 5 most important players (AD, Kyrie, PJ, Lively, Gafford) right now, so expecting anything from them is silly. The point is that it is a team full of role players and they showed that they are plenty good at basketball to help a team win in the playoffs.
I'm not expecting wins (I don't want wins), but they have played some good basketball in heavily increased roles.
FWIW, y'all should watch Jeremiah Fears from OU. Gets to the rim at a high rate (~37%) and does a great job drawing fouls. He will probably be the best PG available when the Mavs draft, unless you want to roll the dice with Nolan Traore (better passer, scoring is a big mess)
I would love fears on this team. Dude is a baller.Guitarsoup said:
FWIW, y'all should watch Jeremiah Fears from OU. Gets to the rim at a high rate (~37%) and does a great job drawing fouls. He will probably be the best PG available when the Mavs draft, unless you want to roll the dice with Nolan Traore (better passer, scoring is a big mess)
I have zero faith in anything the FO/ownership does going forward after this season though. I'd have trusted them with my life after Lively...all of that goodwill is gone.
He balled out against the Ags!Guitarsoup said:
FWIW, y'all should watch Jeremiah Fears from OU. Gets to the rim at a high rate (~37%) and does a great job drawing fouls. He will probably be the best PG available when the Mavs draft, unless you want to roll the dice with Nolan Traore (better passer, scoring is a big mess)
Caleb Martin with the clutch steal.
Dang we needed to lose this one
Never get involved in a land war in Asia and never try to out tank the Spurs.zgolfz85 said:
Dang we needed to lose this one
3rd best player on the Miami Heat finals team. Wrong again. This guy sucks ****.shack009 said:
You could tell he's a much better defender than grimes and he can guard much bigger players than Grimes can. Did some nice things guarding KD.
He had a bad shooting night. His shot has always looked like that. He also had a sick and-1 attacking a close out. You can tell he's good at basketball.
It's not wrong. He absolutely was. And a primary reason they beat the Celtics in the ECF.
Is the healthy roster in the room with usshack009 said:
Me noticing the roster is still good is not defending the front office.
Not noticing the roster is still good, when healthy, is to not know basketball.
Not at the moment, but I'm not expecting them presently.PatAg said:Is the healthy roster in the room with usshack009 said:
Me noticing the roster is still good is not defending the front office.
Not noticing the roster is still good, when healthy, is to not know basketball.
an overlooked part of this is the front office is absolutely going to attempt to use the injuries as an excuse for why the trade didnt work out.
Which when you breakdown all their reasoning, doesn't wash out and I hope the media doesn't let them do it.
(they will because they all want to keep their access)
The basketball fan in me (mavs fan is dormant) would have been interested to see how the roster performed
A lot of people, myself included, even said as much, that it doesnt matter if we win the finals this year, we would still be mad about Luka.
Which to me means everyone acknowledged that the team would still be good on paper, and that AD is a great player.
But some might argue trading for a player like Davis with his injury history, and the reasoning they gave out to justify it, was pretty stupid in the first place. (this kind of just applies to all lanky bigs for the most part)
Which when you breakdown all their reasoning, doesn't wash out and I hope the media doesn't let them do it.
(they will because they all want to keep their access)
The basketball fan in me (mavs fan is dormant) would have been interested to see how the roster performed
A lot of people, myself included, even said as much, that it doesnt matter if we win the finals this year, we would still be mad about Luka.
Which to me means everyone acknowledged that the team would still be good on paper, and that AD is a great player.
But some might argue trading for a player like Davis with his injury history, and the reasoning they gave out to justify it, was pretty stupid in the first place. (this kind of just applies to all lanky bigs for the most part)
It's been clear since the start that no one GAF about Nico's spin. National media sure doesn't.
It's probably the reason AD got hurt long-term in the first place. They should have brought him back slowly from the injury. Instead they wanted him to play before Luka played in LA and AD, to his credit, gave max effort the entire game and it probably led to a more serious reaggravation.
Maybe if AD had a great offseason work ethic like Shaq, he wouldn't have gotten hurt.
this is nails and was a huge miss from ownership. The overwhelming majority of Mavs fans would have taken the unknown with Luka for a dozen more years over a near-term championship with purgatory on the backend. I think this was severely underestimated by ownership. I exclude Nico there because I don't think Nico cares. If Nico gets a near term ring, it's a resume builder and he wasn't here for the long-term anyways...which becomes more and more obvious by the day.PatAg said:
an overlooked part of this is the front office is absolutely going to attempt to use the injuries as an excuse for why the trade didnt work out.
Which when you breakdown all their reasoning, doesn't wash out and I hope the media doesn't let them do it.
(they will because they all want to keep their access)
The basketball fan in me (mavs fan is dormant) would have been interested to see how the roster performed
A lot of people, myself included, even said as much, that it doesnt matter if we win the finals this year, we would still be mad about Luka.
Which to me means everyone acknowledged that the team would still be good on paper, and that AD is a great player.
But some might argue trading for a player like Davis with his injury history, and the reasoning they gave out to justify it, was pretty stupid in the first place. (this kind of just applies to all lanky bigs for the most part)
If we're correct there and the ownership group did completely miss on the average fan's sentiment (near term ship vs Luka long-term), it's just concrete evidence that this new group has not poured themselves into the city and fanbase as any savvy and quality ownership group would.
Rusillo said on the bad contact podcast that trading Luka costs th Mavs 1.5-2 billion dollars
Just the fact that that idiot Nico couldn't put aside his ego or whatever to see what the Finals team from EIGHT MONTHS ago could do this postseason with the offseason additions that were brought here as complimentary to Luka's exact style of play...zgolfz85 said:this is nails and was a huge miss from ownership. The overwhelming majority of Mavs fans would have taken the unknown with Luka for a dozen more years over a near-term championship with purgatory on the backend. I think this was severely underestimated by ownership. I exclude Nico there because I don't think Nico cares. If Nico gets a near term ring, it's a resume builder and he wasn't here for the long-term anyways...which becomes more and more obvious by the day.PatAg said:
an overlooked part of this is the front office is absolutely going to attempt to use the injuries as an excuse for why the trade didnt work out.
Which when you breakdown all their reasoning, doesn't wash out and I hope the media doesn't let them do it.
(they will because they all want to keep their access)
The basketball fan in me (mavs fan is dormant) would have been interested to see how the roster performed
A lot of people, myself included, even said as much, that it doesnt matter if we win the finals this year, we would still be mad about Luka.
Which to me means everyone acknowledged that the team would still be good on paper, and that AD is a great player.
But some might argue trading for a player like Davis with his injury history, and the reasoning they gave out to justify it, was pretty stupid in the first place. (this kind of just applies to all lanky bigs for the most part)
If we're correct there and the ownership group did completely miss on the average fan's sentiment (near term ship vs Luka long-term), it's just concrete evidence that this new group has not poured themselves into the city and fanbase as any savvy and quality ownership group would.
So frustratingly shortsighted.
Guitarsoup said:
Rusillo said on the bad contact podcast that trading Luka costs th Mavs 1.5-2 billion dollars
Yep, another point that's being lost in all of this. How does a businessman do that deal?!
Which is why the league conspiracy theories have legs. There is no other logic, even the incompetence story is a stretch.
JW said:
Which is why the league conspiracy theories have legs. There is no other logic, even the incompetence story is a stretch.
There's no way the league/Lakers are compensating the Mavs even half of what they lost by trading Luka.
Spurs fan chanted Fire Nico last night
“Fire Nico” chants have made it all the way down to San Antonio pic.twitter.com/N3Lk8UK8gD
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