Prediction: Mavs Regular Season Record

[RasheedsBigWhiteSpot]

Points, rebounds, assists and what...blocks? 

That would be one hell of a game!

or steals

[loki]

35-47

I expect them to struggle enough offensively that they'll be conservative on Kyrie's timeline. I may even have to set my homepage to Tankathon again.

[BigDirk41]

38-44. This isn't a good Mavs team on either end. The pieces don't fit together. I just hope Flagg can flourish and grow this year.

[Benskix2]

I'm changing my prediction from 41 wins to 14 wins.

[vfromlmf]

Flagg will average 19/6/4 --he's the real deal, but ...
AD, and Lively and DLo will each miss at least 25 games
Kyrie will miss 65 games
We'll get way too much Powell and Hardy

38-44 feels right but they could get to .500 depending on the nature and timing of injuries

There's a better chance they struggle in Feb and decide to tank than win 50 games.

I'm going to take the under on 38 games. Imagine what this will look like when DLo inevitably goes down.

This looks like a 20 win team.

[SleepingHero]

After this year's start so far, I'd be surprised if this team won more than 25 games.

[KillerLeft]

Well, at least they saved me the trouble of bringing up the playoff rotation way too early this season. That was nice of them!

[Jym]

I feel like I'll end up watching more regular season games than the past several years
Regular season Lukaball just wasn't nearly as fun as it should have been. So an interesting mixed bag of not feeling hopeful for the win total but being excited to see what the hell this bizarro collection of players look like

My worst prediction 
Maybe I just really do hate modern basketball where everything is either a three or a foul

[KillerLeft]

My worst prediction 
Maybe I just really do hate modern basketball where everything is either a three or a foul

Easy to say something like this, and I've felt this way before, but...

...then you see the Mavs' offense, and the reality of how things used to look/work before modern spacing sets in. In reality, the game is 100x more interesting and fun now than it was 20 years ago. 

Give me last year's IND offense. Inject it directly into my veins.

[HoosierDaddyKid]

With the start of the season this bad, they might not win 30 games.

[FireNicoHarrison]

I was very negative about this season but the guys are exceeding all my expectations.

I Hope they will not rush street clothes and Irving returns, they are both 1 major injury away from being untradable contracts.

[F Gump]

I Hope they will not rush street clothes and 

If you won't call a Mavs player by his name, that's disrespectful to him and to Mavs fans. I would have thought the constant haterism would subside, but no. 

He's not perfect but we discuss him as a player, not as a constant caricature.

It's the same ole same ole -- your ongoing dismissiveness really has no place here and contributes nothing to this place. Please go away.

[Mavs2021]

If you won't call a Mavs player by his name, that's disrespectful to him and to Mavs fans. I would have thought the constant haterism would subside, but no. 

He's not perfect but we discuss him as a player, not as a constant caricature.

It's the same ole same ole -- your ongoing dismissiveness really has no place here and contributes nothing to this place. Please go away.

All I read was: Brandon Williams will be an All-Star, Nico Harrison has reinvented big ball basketball and we will all need to...

[FireNicoHarrison]

If you won't call a Mavs player by his name, that's disrespectful to him and to Mavs fans. I would have thought the constant haterism would subside, but no. 

He's not perfect but we discuss him as a player, not as a constant caricature.

It's the same ole same ole -- your ongoing dismissiveness really has no place here and contributes nothing to this place. Please go away.

What? I'm sorry Gump but Davis in 2025 is a constant caricature.

He played just 12 games for us, he is soft and he doesn't care about Mavericks... He had a vacancy summer smoking cygar, play golf and eat burgers.

He was overweight at the start of this season that is yet so much hard for the fans.
He has no respect for us. And i don't have respect for him.

[F Gump]

He had a vacancy summer smoking cygar, play golf and eat burgers.

Link?

[FireNicoHarrison]

Link?

[F Gump]

That is your basis for what you said --  someone's meme? Good grief.

I dont think AD is a slacker, but I do think he ended up out of basketball shape because his injury recovery prohibited exertion that could cause pressure on the eye and further damage..

[vfromlmf]

Defending Anthony Davis at this point comes off as tone-deaf. This fan base isn’t complaining about some made-up narrative or irrational hate—they’re reacting to the very real, very visible fact that he spends a massive percentage of his seasons on the sideline in street clothes. Talent has never been the debate. Nobody questions what he can do when he’s on the floor. That’s exactly why it’s so frustrating.

People forget: the nickname wasn’t born in Dallas, or created by Mavericks fans, or invented out of thin air. It followed him here because it’s been a defining part of his career—year after year, team after team, the same story: injuries, absences, “day-to-day” stretching into weeks. When a player with superstar talent is either unavailable or unreliable, fans are going to react. That’s not being toxic, it’s being honest.

And when the team is struggling, watching an All-NBA-level player sit courtside in designer sweats isn’t some harmless detail—it feels like wasted money, wasted roster space, wasted potential. Fans are paying to watch a product. They’re allowed to be upset when one of the most important pieces is rarely part of it.

No one is dismissing his skill. No one is denying his ceiling. But availability is a skill too, and right now, it’s the one Anthony Davis has never consistently shown he has.

[FireNicoHarrison]

That is your basis for what you said --  someone's meme? Good grief.

I dont think AD is a slacker, but I do think he ended up out of basketball shape because his injury recovery prohibited exertion that could cause pressure on the eye and further damage..

Meme? He is fat. It's the reality.

You can defend street clothes all day i don't care but for sure you can't ask someone to go away. 

He ate all summer, he is a 60M professional guy. No respect for the fans. Surgery or not.

[F Gump]

He ate all summer, he is a 60M professional guy. No respect for the fans. Surgery or not.

 Making up stuff now. You are just playing the hater game. It was old before, and as bad as the Mavs experience is these days, we certainly dont need to go through your crap again because you STILL offer nothing. Why are you even here? 

Please go away.