Game 36: HOU (21-10) @ DAL (12-23)

[mvossman]

KL, while I mean no disrespect, I find all this whining to be incredibly shortsighted and unthinking. 

There are a lot of ways to put it. It misses the forest for the trees. It makes the perfect the enemy of the good. It complains about missing style points when the hard-to-attain goal was somehow attained. It's finding an excuse to tear down when it's much more suitable to offer praise.

CONSIDER:
The Rox are one of the NBA's best. They are highly talented. They are hard to play against. Meanwhile, the Mavs are playing without two of their key players (Kyrie and Lively) and lost a 3rd early in the game (PJW). They are in the middle of a going-nowhere season.

Yet the Mavs won. The Rox certainly wanted the win and needed the win. And they have enough talent to win against even the very best teams. But the Mavs - with all the things you hate happening - won anyhow.

Because the Mavs need the better pick, I'm not sure I even like the win. But the Mavs won. It was not handed to them. That's the fact, Jack. And THIS is the game you want to use as your example of how the train is off the tracks? Ummm no, they won.

Maybe there's a method in the madness. Maybe, just maybe, Kidd's not as bad or inept as you think. If not, how do you explain the fact that the Mavs won?

LOL, no disrespect, but you are whining, shortsighted and unthinking.

The lineups KL is complaining about got crushed in this game.  They won despite those lineups, not because of them.  Defending those lineups because they won the game is lazy analysis (no disrespect).

The biggest reason the Mavs won is because Houston's best player went out in the first minute of the game and they shot 24% from 3.