06-17-2021, 07:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-17-2021, 07:13 PM by SwisherPrice.)
RC was not the answer long-term for this new era. But I don't see how you can blame the last 10 years on him...he was only able to make do with the trash that Donnie and Cuban gave him every offseason. A constantly changing roster of C-level players every year with Dirk.
In RC's tenure here, the Mavs only had a Top-4 seed twice. The rest of the 1st round exists were due to being playoff fodder as a low seed. You look at any coach, even the greats like Popovich and Phil Jackson - their playoff record in the seasons where they don't have a top-4 seed are not very good either. Even LeBron finally was bounced in the 1st round this year because for the first time in his career, he was playing as a lower seed.
So we can look at the Mavs playoff record and wonder why RC hasn't done more but there's not a lot you can do when you're constantly the underdog in the 1st round.
In RC's tenure here, the Mavs only had a Top-4 seed twice. The rest of the 1st round exists were due to being playoff fodder as a low seed. You look at any coach, even the greats like Popovich and Phil Jackson - their playoff record in the seasons where they don't have a top-4 seed are not very good either. Even LeBron finally was bounced in the 1st round this year because for the first time in his career, he was playing as a lower seed.
So we can look at the Mavs playoff record and wonder why RC hasn't done more but there's not a lot you can do when you're constantly the underdog in the 1st round.