I'm out on the 2023-24 season ....

[F Gump]

Why over react to one game?

For me it's not one game. It's one MORE game, that has occurred with regularity, of a team that plays small, and lacking energy, and overmatched, with mediocre defense, rather than being competitive.

Too many times they don't even have any juice at all, from the outset.

The best teams come to the game, at least keep it close for 3 quarters, and then pick up the intensity, go to a better level, and take the win in the 4th. The Mavs tend to be the team on the bottom end of that equation.

It's also an observation that as we go round and round in circles over various trade ideas, it's getting very obvious there's no trade possible that moves the needle in a good way. None of the supposed candidates are any more valuable than death warmed over - just one overpaid meh guy after another, and all requiring a strip of assets to get that mostly-junk player. We're now debating PJW vs Kuzma vs Wiggins vs Grant,and all at a high price? Yikes. Gag. A desperate overpriced deal is always possible, but none of these players can make much difference now, and they are yet another piece whose price and baggage will set the team back in the long run.

That's what has made me jump ship, not one game. It's a a team that's repeatedly just blah, and a lack of any potential route that feasibly upgrades the future.