Skipper
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Texas Rangers 2024: Run It Back
I'm not surprised to see a step back. And it wouldn't have shocked me to not make the playoffs (in a close race). But I didn't see 10 games back in mid June. Even in years where I had zero expectations, my hope was just to get us to early to mid August within striking distance before we start paying attention to horns training camp, etc. for fall. This team better wake up or we'll dig too much of a hole to have a chance at even that within a few weeks. Hopefully getting guys back soon from injury provides a spark.
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Dallas Stars 2024 Offseason Thread
I don't see it for the reasons pointed out in that Tiffin article a week or so back but guess we'll see.
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
I can't imagine how hard that would be given what he means to his country and the weight he carries in that regard, but it would absolutely the be the right move for next season. Obviously we are biased.
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
Way too much negativity on this thread for a team that massively overachieved. Winning a Championship is hard. Boston hung around the rim for what, damn near the last decade before finally putting the pieces together? Obviously disappointing outcome and particularly that we didn't play better but it's a learning experience that will make Luka better. They were clearly a superior team and deserving champ.
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
Bad time for an awful shooting night across the board outside of Josh Green.
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
Dear god. Fucking post less
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
That should do it. Great run. Boston just completely locked in tonight.
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House of the Dragon
Glad I didn't know anything about the books or that scene going in. Thought it was a great episode.
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
I'm pretty positive confetti was dropped both home finals wins I attended in 2011, neither of which was a clincher. Who gives a shit.
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
He hit a Mavs Finals record for made 3's. Stroke magically looked good. So, so ridiculous. Whatever, I'll hang on to a shred of hope he can somehow keep that going and the ultimate streak shooter isn't in fact done but has just finally shot himself out of it.
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
I think we go as Kyrie goes game 5. I fully expect Luka to have a good game but Kyrie was rattled in Boston. If he can play well, it will quiet/frustrate the crowd and confidence will spread to everyone. And alternatively, if he plays poorly, lots of negative energy for everyone else to fight through. It's probably something to do with my 6th+ ranch water but I feel good about getting it back to Dallas.
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
P.S. I can't recall if I read it in this thread or one of my text threads with season ticket holders but someone made the point recently that Lively fucks around with that corner 3 constantly in warmups. Really hope he can bring that to his game over the next couple of years. That draft pick just keeps getting better and better. He had a fantastic game tonight
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
Fuck every single one of the haters. Great game. Great first half in particular. 4th quarter and THJ finally finding a stroke when there is no pressure is irrelevant (although appreciated if it could somehow carry over). For the first fucking time this series our role players showed up. They did what they have done all playoffs to get us here. Luka played great but was 0-8 for three and it didn't matter. Kyrie had an average game and it didn't matter. Fucking tempo, energy, defensive aggressiveness and role players playing their role ended this game early. Boston won't play this poorly again but they are beatable. Steal game 5 and Boston and those booty holes start getting tight. Oh, and thanks to all the fucking Boston douchebags that flew in tonight. Appreciate those tax dollars
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NBA 2023-24
LOL. That Suns team won 64 games. Best record in the league easily that year (won the West by 8 games). The 'joke' MN team won 56 this year. So yeah, great comment there. An example of a "joke team" would be your Spurs now and for the foreseeable future.
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NBA 2023-24
You are right. That was the Booker/Ayton/Paul Suns. Don't disagree with anything you are saying. Mavs still have to improve the roster to be considered a top 3 in the West which is way easier said than done (and even then it will be a bit of a crapshoot in playoffs). That THJ contract is such a dead weight for another year unless they can move it.
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Luka Doncic
So I guess this is the thread where Spurs and Rockets douchebags spend their time now since their teams won't be sniffing the playoffs for the foreseeable future. Cool Cool.
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NBA 2023-24
He's fucking 25 dude/ Jordan hadn't gotten out of the 2nd round at 25. Kobe had the best start of that group but that was a stacked roster he won with when young. It's just a little too early to be writing that sentence and defining his career. This was a team with an over/under set at like 42 pre-season and he drug this team to the finals. I've seen more "it" moments from him than any player since Kobe. He pretty much singlehandedly destroyed and embarrassed Durant's PHX team on the road in game 7 2 years ago and then Minn in game 5 on the road this year. Those are real playoff moments most star players never sniff. But everyone suddenly forgetting those moments and trying to define Luka's career by 1 game is insane to me.
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
Nah, that aint it. That garbage franchise shouldn't be involved in any comparison to any other DFW team.
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
It just dawned on me that from the time the Mavs won the West, the Stars and Mavs have gone a combined 0-5. Talk about a crash and burn ending to an amazing April/May run locally.
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
I think the point is there are probably other message boards where you can find other 20YO east coast sports fans that like to engage in your form of banter. Go find a yankees board or something. Nobody here gives a shit about Boston.
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NBA 2023-24
How many Mavs games have you watched this season until the NBA finals?
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NBA 2023-24
He still has a lot he can improve on obviously. All I'm saying is trade a healthy Luka for literally any 'elite' player on the Boston roster and the narrative would be Celtics being led by the best player in the world while Mavs with Tatum or Brown don't make it out of the first round. Celtics are clearly a better team even if the Mavs depth were playing to their potential, but with the absolute garbage minutes everyone else other than Kyrie (in game 3 at least) is providing in this series, you can just see Luka getting frustrated and trying to do it all (and, yeah, unraveling a bit last night). The shit he gets nationally and from casual fans considering where's he's led this roster is ridiculously unfair.
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NBA 2023-24
All the "Luka can't play defense" takes are so fucking lazy and just shows how little Mavs NBA casuals have watched until now. He's never going to be elite on that end but he's playing fucking hurt and worn down from having to do way too much on offense to keep us in games because we have fucking zero depth scoring (again, doing it hurt). It's one thing for non-Mavs fans on this board to have that take but that it's such a talking point in the media just shows how fucking lazy they all are.
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
Surely there is someone with an asset in tank mode that wants to guarantee a good chance at the overall #1 by trading for THJ's expiring contract and playing him 25 mins/night right? Right?
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2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys
A fucking kid at that blabbering about "18 championships" when these are probably the first Celtics finals games he's been old enough to stay up and watch. Epitome of a Boston douche