(12-05-2021, 12:27 AM)Kammrath Wrote: https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon/status/1467357877283270656

(12-06-2021, 03:59 PM)omahen Wrote: Mark Followill on Twitter: "Status updates for Mavs vs Nets tomorrow: Luka (left ankle soreness, left thumb sprain) & Hardaway (R knee contusion) are questionable. Porzingis (left knee contusion) - probable. Cauley-Stein (personal reasons) - out. Followill, Harper, Wade (TNT exclusive) - out." / Twitter

(12-06-2021, 05:31 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: TNT game with Luka, THJ and Porzingis possibly out.

(12-06-2021, 05:33 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: It's so wild to me that people actually think tanking is an option with Luka...

Like ya, definitely need to make some changes, but tanking will set us back a decade once we piss Luka off.

(12-06-2021, 05:43 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: It´s even more wild that people actually think tanking has been a problem of this franchise for the last decade. We have two botched tanks in the last decade and still came away with DSJ (used to acquire Porzingis) + Luka+Brunson in these scenarios. Compare that to our other results in free agency and trades, it would seem a lot more bizarre to continue with our current strategies.

Anyway we don´t need to tank, we´ll just keep losing with the current team and end up in the lottery anyway. If it wasn´t for that dumb play-in tournament that makes 66% of the league "play-off" teams, I´d be pretty confident this team would be headed straight toward the ping pong ballls.

(12-06-2021, 05:53 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: Yes...when we tanked we got high lottery picks...I'm sure Luka is eager to celebrate us drafting in the top 10.

No one said anything about losing with the current team.  Tanking (in theory) did it's job, we got our franchise guy and got his running mate (tried at least), you don't tank after that, you eventually try to win.  Call me crazy, but considering we have one of the best 5 players in the world, I'm ok with us trying to win.

Side note, why are your apostrophes always different?

(12-06-2021, 06:10 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: It´s always the same. I just can´t be bothered to use an extra keyboard stroke to make this ' apostrophe instead of this ´ all the time.

Not getting into another rebuilding strategies debate.

It was more a tongue in cheek picture with some truth attached about our current situation.

Over the  last 10 games we have actually been the worst team in our shitty division. We have been worse than the Rockets, Spurs and Pelicans.

Only the Thunder, Magic and Pistons have a worse record over the last 10. At least call it tanking, so Luka doesn´t feel like he plays for the biggest morons on the planet. 

(12-07-2021, 08:29 AM)Kammrath Wrote:

(12-07-2021, 10:20 AM)fifteenth Wrote: quite interesting

(12-07-2021, 10:24 AM)Kammrath Wrote: This is quite good news IMO. The worst thing the Mavs could do right now is not think long term.

(12-07-2021, 10:28 AM)fifteenth Wrote: But if Kidd's schemes are unproven, and the long game is about slowly moving in the direction that he schemes dictate, then are we playing to the long game while aiming at an unsure target?