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Originally Posted by DevinHarriswillstart
I don't really care how the Mavs lose as long as they do. 1-7 in their last 8 is still encouraging considering Mark's ill-advised comments.
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That happened by accident. They tried to beat Chicago, and Chicago is benching Robin Lopez & Justin Holiday. Chicago tried to lose to us, but we suck so bad that we couldn't beat a team who was trying to lose to us. We made David Nwaba look like a freagg'in All Star. But, the Mavs were up by 11 with 10 min to go in that one, and then the Bulls caught fire. We won't get that lucky in very many more games vs the bottom 8.
Vs OKC we tried to win that game. Only the vets played. And a DSJ baseline jumper doesn't find the bottom of the net, or we win that game. Dumb luck. Period.
We're about to play Memphis who's lost 13 in a row, and that's no accident. We're going to beat them because they're going to bring a rotation in here that would have trouble in the G league a lot of nights, and the Mavs are stubborn as hell. Carlisle is going to take the bait, play the vets the whole game & we're going to win that one by double digits. The writing is on the wall.
New York is playing to lose. Look at their minutes distribution since KP went down. Look at how piss poor their guards are. Mudiay, Burke & Ntilikina don't move the ball in the offense. They're point guards who do not get their teammates involved. The Knicks are 1-9 since the unicorn went down. Their only win came vs ORL by 7 points & really only happened because Burke went off for 26 pts on 12/22 FG shooting.
Then we play Brooklyn. Brooklyn is 1-12 in their last 13 games. Unless DeAngelo catches fire or one of their other super scrubs, they're not even in games to even have a chance to win.
We are not going to lose a game to 3 teams who are a combined 2-34 in their last 36 games. It's just not going to happen. Not when we won't sit our vets & play the young guys we need to evaluate, and those other teams are doing that.
Those 3 wins will cost us a shot at Ayton, Doncic, JJJ or anyone else in the top 5. Hell, winning @ SAC, vs LAL and vs IND may have already done that.