How Can the Mavs NOT Be Better with These Additions?

[DanSchwartzgan]

A couple months into last season we were the 4th seed after blowing so many close, winnable games.  

To be precise they were in 4th eleven of the first 12 days of January and on 1/12/23 were on a 46 win pace having played just over half the season.  Phoenix got the 4th seed last season at 45-37.  They went 14-25 from 1/13/23 on which was 5th worst in the league.  I imagine one's outlook on the season depends on which team we think this team looks more like.

I pick the first half team.  I think Kyrie is better than Dinwiddie, GWill is better than last years version of DFS (note the wording), Josh is better than last years version of Bullock and our center rotation and bench are improved as well.

To Killer's point, Dallas was 26-29 in clutch games and blew 10 point leads 15 times (only Portland and Minnesota were worse).  The year before they were 22-16.