04-04-2023, 10:40 AM
(04-04-2023, 10:01 AM)omahen Wrote: Playing them is exact prime material to be ridiculed. Portland for example recognized it makes no sense to compete this season and they stopped a couple of weeks ago.
Portland's rumor about shutting Dame down came out around March 17th. Mavs were 36-35 at that point. They had just beat the Lakers and miraculously moved from 8th to 5th in 1 night after the Warriors lost.
So at that point the Mavs were squarely in the playoffs. Shutting down Luka and Kyrie at that time would've been unthinkable.
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