(01-30-2025, 06:34 AM)ThisIStheYear Wrote: The Maxi injury may have saved Kidd and the Mav’s season.

(01-08-2025, 04:08 PM)Smitty Wrote: The Mavs need to weather the storm. Hopefully the sickness that bit the team is long gone. Kyrie comes back by the OKC game 1/23? Then Luka and Exum for the Cavs 2 Feb?

I think the Mavs can go 6-6 to finish January. 

Remaining games:

Vs. POR  W
Vs. DEN  L
Vs. DEN  L
@ NOP (b2b)  L
Vs. OKC  W
@ CHA  L
Vs. MIN  L
@ OKC (b2b - Kyrie return?)  W
Vs. BOS  L
Vs. WSH  W
@ NOP  W
@ DET

6-6 leaves you 5 games over .500. If you win the remaining 33 games at a .700 rate (23-10), then you reach 50 wins.

There's some hopium for the day!

(01-30-2025, 09:44 AM)mvossman Wrote: This gets old.  He had lost effectiveness at the 4 but was still a decent backup 5 (which would be handy right now) and the idea that he was costing us a bunch of games is hyperbole.

(01-30-2025, 07:31 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: @townbrad
Shocker that the Mavericks, six months removed from making the NBA Finals, failed to land an All-Star for the first time since 2018.

Perfectly understandable in Doncic's case, but in the fan/media voting Doncic was third among West guards and Kyrie Irving was fifth.

(01-30-2025, 08:49 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: I think the Mavs will be aggressive to upgrade maxi.  Even if it a lateral move.  Maxi and a few seconds will get someone of maxi level who may be a little more dependable as a backup 4.

(01-31-2025, 12:00 AM)Reunion Mav Wrote: Show prospective trade partners his playoff hot streaks and defensive mobility. Some may be quite enamored. Don’t give this guy away though. His next blistering streak could win us a playoff series.

(01-31-2025, 12:00 AM)Reunion Mav Wrote: Show prospective trade partners his playoff hot streaks and defensive mobility. Some may be quite enamored. Don’t give this guy away though. His next blistering streak could win us a playoff series.

(01-31-2025, 01:25 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: I honestly think we might have seen the last of Maxi on an NBA court. With his 15 year long injury journey and how he looked before breaking his foot, I don´t see it.

(01-31-2025, 01:25 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: I honestly think we might have seen the last of Maxi on an NBA court. With his 15 year long injury journey and how he looked before breaking his foot, I don´t see it.

(01-31-2025, 05:53 PM)WillE Wrote: All you guys who think broken bones is the end are just overreacting.

Broken bones are one of, if not the best injury to have if you are already injured. Because they heal relatively quickly and, in principle, leave no restrictions etc. Injuries to muscles, ligaments or even tendons cannot make the same claim.
Anyone who has ever torn their Achilles tendon, for example, envies anyone who has only broken bones. Even if the same fracture happens twice in a row. Even three times...

Broken bones aren't nice, but they're not really bad either and certainly not the end of the world. So Maxi will definitely come back.

(02-01-2025, 01:23 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Hollinger has an article in the athletic saying Gafford could be the leagues most underrated player.

Quote:Daniel Gafford has been good all year, but if you haven’t been paying attention to the Luka Dončić-less Mavs lately, he’s been monstrous since mid-January. In the last two weeks, he’s had multiple video-game stat lines: 9-of-9 with 22 points and 12 rebounds; 12-of-15 with 31 points, 15 rebounds and seven blocks; and 12-of-13 with 27 points and 12 rebounds, for example.

Quote:The tape backs up the quality of play: Gafford is an athletic, physical force who combines it with strength, toughness, Velcro hands and a great motor. He might be the league’s most underrated player. Look at him destroy New Orleans’ poor Yves Missi here for an offensive board and putback:

Quote:Gafford has 91 dunks on the season, just under two per game, and that’s with Dončić, his primary lob supplier missing most of the season. Defensively, it’s a similar story. Gafford’s rim protection has been an underrated factor, especially as the Mavs weather injuries to other big men.

Quote:For the season, Gafford’s 25.7 PER ranks sixth in the entire league — yes, really — because of his dominance inside. He’s fourth in offensive rebound rate and third in block rate, and his shooting percentage isn’t just feasting on dunks: He’s shown surprising touch around the lane and has made 62.4 percent even from 3 to 10 feet.