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Originally Posted by FreshJive
Luka practically carried this team the entire season. Porzingis missed a bunch of games. Half the team was out for Covid.
You all act like Carlisle invented this idea, and that the Mavs are the only team that does it. The league had to start fining teams, and making injury designation rules, because teams were doing it so much.
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Look we don't often agree but even you have to admit with the reduced schedule (72 games) regardless of what other teams are doing the Mavs don't have the luxury to mess around.
We don't have the talent or supporting cast like some of these other teams to just throw away games.
Portland is a prime example they now have Norman Powell to pair with C.J and Melo if they decide they want to rest Dame and they can still win.
Denver rarely rest their guys but even if they do now they have like 4 guys Jokic, Porter, Murray and Gordon that allows them to be flexible
Utah has shooters all over the place so one game Mitchell sitting out might not hurt them as much we saw that twice already when they destroyed us without him.
But my point is it seems like the Mavs are hell bent on just getting into the play in bracket and willing to take their chances as a 7th or 8th seed.
Sure you want to be healthy and rested for the playoffs but they had like a two weeks break while other teams never got that type of time off or rest doing the winter storm and all star break.
They rested guys right after the all star break which was insane
Are they truly that good where they can feel confident as a lower seed that matchups don't matter?
Now if most fans think they aren't going to win a 1st round series anyway then hey I guess we don't have a right to be upset since the expectation bar is set low.