Game 9: Phoenix Suns (7-1) vs. Dallas Mavericks (5-3) | 6:30pm CST

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Not Luka’s year.  It’s sad he’s never had a great team regular season — just some pretty good ones. He won’t win an MVP without a top 2 seed. No one should. The team is just mid like their coach. They lost tonight because of a slow start and a choke job.  They’ll need a 10 - 12 game winning streak to get back into it.  The offense is the problem even though it’s the most talented offensive team in the NBA. Rick would have this team as the number one offense in history.  I don’t even think they’re top 12 this season under Kidd. They’ve never really had a great offense with Kidd. What a shitty season so far.

This seems like a bit of an overreaction considering we’re still just 3 games out of first.  Not like we’re 3-6 or anything, still beating up on the teams we’re supposed to beat up on.. Gotta remember that a 50 win pace is really just going 6-4 every 10 games. Plus these Kidd teams always start slow (which I agree is annoying, just saying this feels similar to the starts that led to very competitive teams is all).

Need to get healthy, Lively is the third most important player on this team.