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  1. Jokic would fit easily although we'd have to match contracts within 10 or 15% in the ensuing trade which would pretty much gut the roster. Regardless Jokic wouldn't do that. Assuming all his injured teammates come back fully healthy his roster on Denver is light years better than what he would be left with here in Dallas, even with Luka. Next year the west is going to be ridiculously tough. Teams like Denver, Clippers, and even New Orleans will have significant talent returning from injury. I imagine perhaps a team like Utah will probably fall out of the mix, but the top 6 teams will all be legit championship contenders.
  2. Pat Beverly is putting in a 12 hour shift today to get that hate in.
  3. Woke with my face hurting because I was smiling so hard during my slumber. I've consumed every bit of Mavs media possible this morning and I can't get enough. Everything from Bill Simmons podcast to the Athletics to even Get Up on ESPN. Patrick Beverly was on this morning absolutely eviscerating the Suns. Said Chris Paul should've fouled out and claimed his nickname in the NBA is cones because he can't guard anyone and is allowed to get away with nonsense because of his status in the league. I love this shit.
  4. DFS may have Poole over Klay but we'll see.
  5. Whataya know, it's possible for coaches to improve just like players improve; especially early in their careers.
  6. The narrative between Bird and Magic is often depicted as rural vs city in addition to the obvious black vs white dichotomy, but people forget that Lansing wasn't that big and beyond that Magic's parents were part of the great migration that saw black folks move from the south in search of manufacturing jobs in the north. Magic's parents and the community he grew up in was made up people who picked up and moved from places like Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas. He was just as "country" and rural as Bird was.
  7. Every fucking year they do this. My Mavs had couldn't see this level of player development with binoculars on.
  8. I want to say that I got this article from earlier in this thread, but it could've been from the discussion in the "Supremes" thread. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/south-abortion-pro-life-protestants-catholics/629779/ But basically what yall are describing in Ireland and Italy was part of our political spectrum before Jerry Fallwell and the rest of the religious right got involved in the 80s. Before the mid-1970s, active opposition to abortion in the United States looked almost exactly like opposition to abortion in Britain, Western Europe, and Australia: It was concentrated mainly among Catholics. As late as 1980, 70 percent of the members of the nation’s largest anti-abortion organization, the National Right to Life Committee, were Catholic. As a result, the states that were most resistant to abortion legalization were, in most cases, the states with the highest concentration of Catholics, most of which were in the North and leaned Democratic. This fit the pattern across the Western world: Countries with large numbers of devout Catholics restricted abortion, while those that were predominantly Protestant did not. Sweden—where Catholics made up less than 1 percent of the population—legalized some abortions as early as the 1930s; Ireland did not follow suit until 2018. If the United States had followed this script, opposition to abortion probably would have weakened with the decline of Catholic-church attendance rates. Like Canada and England, where the leading conservative parties are overwhelmingly supportive of abortion rights, the Republican Party in the United States might have remained what it was for most of the 1970s: a heavily Protestant party whose leaders generally leaned in favor of abortion rights. .......................................................................... Only a minority of white evangelical Protestants were politically progressive; the majority (especially in the South) were conservative, and they combined their commitment to moral regulation with a faith in free-market economics and opposition to social-welfare spending. American evangelicalism had long been the most individualistic of the nation’s Christian traditions, and in keeping with that individualistic theology of sin and salvation, most white evangelicals thought that the government’s interest in morality extended only to the punishment of individual vice, not the reduction of poverty. Thus, as the anti-abortion movement’s political influence shifted away from Catholic states toward evangelical-Protestant regions, it abandoned its earlier calls for federal antipoverty programs, expanded maternal-health insurance, and federally funded day care, and instead focused exclusively on the narrower issue of overturning Roe v. Wade and making abortion illegal. A few activists (including a number of the northern Catholic veterans of the movement) remained committed to poverty relief and a comprehensive culture-of-life ethic, but with the Democratic Party’s current unequivocal endorsement of abortion rights, some of them felt politically homeless. Those activists began voting Republican despite their reservations about the party’s stances on social-welfare issues—which brought them into alliance with the southern evangelical conservatives who now had the political power to restrict abortion in their region.
  9. Bob elicited a preemptive "none of the other coaches answer our calls" excuse for why the Hardline has the Aggy Power hour segment every couple of months.
  10. A stat from the podcast. Of the guys drafted in the top 5 in the last 10 years who played college basketball Jabari Smith landed DEAD LAST by a significant margin in 2pt FG%. He shot 43.5% from 2. No other player shot below 45% and only 6 or 7 guys shot below 50% from 2pt range and most of those guys below 50% were PGs like Khris Dunn, Trae Young, Deangelo Russell, Cade Cunningham to name a few. Forwards just don't typically shoot this low a FG% around the basket. The 2pt FG% correlates to an ease of scoring for a player and leads to easy assist. Even guys who weren't known as scorers in college like Scottie Barnes or Franz Wagner, or even Evan Mobley all shot exceptionally well (56.1, 56.3, & 61.5 respectively) from 2pt range. For comparison in this year's draft Chet Holmgren shot 73.7% and Paolo shot 52.5% from 2pt range. Mind you, my criticism of Jabari is mostly about his struggles as a shot/playmaker (ie the best player on the team) and whether these struggles are too much for him to be the considered for the top pick in the draft. Now Jabari's skillset as a deep shooter and defender definitely mean that he'll excel in the right role, but I have trouble seeing him as the best player in this year's draft because of this particular flaw. Go back and watch Auburn's loss to MIami. Now Auburns guards are admittedly trash, but Jabari absolutely refused to attack his defender off the dribble. The best player in a given year's draft needs to have the potential to be an offensive hub as a player and I don't see it in Jabari.
  11. I'm highly skeptical of Jabari Smith's star potential in the league. I admit he's a great 3pt shooter, but I'm not exactly sure he'll be much more than a starting level stretch 4 or a 3 and D type player. Jonathan Tjarks mentioned awhile back on one of his podcast that a big predictor of elite level play in the NBA is 2pt FG% in college. And for being a big Jabari Smith shoots a woeful 43.5% on 2pt FGs. That's absolutely abysmal for a big. For comparison 6'4" guard, Jaden Ivey shoots 53.1% on 2pt FGs. Smith's anemic 2pt FG% is instructive of his mindset, particularly his lack of aggression and his willingness to settle. In other words he may be too soft to grow into an elite player, but who knows.
  12. That's how I watched the 4th qtr of our first trip to the Rose Bowl vs Michigan. At some point during the game I noticed something good would happened every I was out of my seat. By the end of the 3rd quarter I decided I had to sacrifice myself to get the win.
  13. I doubt Paul saw what happened. He's probably reacting to whatever his family relayed to him. So to say he's overreacting isn't taking into account that his family probably amplified whatever they endured.
  14. While I'm willing to give the new front office a try I agree with @Porterhouse that Cuban is the fly in the ointment. His meddling has been part of why the Mavs have had such atrocious luck with the draft over the last 20+ years.
  15. The resulting lack of structure is a function of the fact that we're unwilling to admit what this actually is. There's a tension that is created in still pretending this is an amateur endeavor while simultaneously running a professional operation and it leaves us in a quandary where we're left without adequate rules in place to curtail this new world from being the wild wild west. Paying the athletes as employees destroys the myth all of us are holding on to, but paying them as employees also means they'd be beholden to contracts and other controlling mechanisms available with employer/employee relationships.
  16. Yeah, but he doesn't provide near the defensive quality we need from a guy getting minutes like he would require.
  17. The Mavs are basically a quality rim running defensive center and a Cam Johnson like wing away from having a championship caliber roster. Finney and Bullock are great, but if we had one more wing of their defensive quality but more capable of consistently attacking closeouts it would throw us over the top. Maybe if Green had a Finney-Smith like improvement from outside over the next year he'd fill that hole in our roster, but so far choosing him over Saddiq Bey was a major mistake.
  18. The NBA needs to get rid of the breakaway fouls teams constantly commit.
  19. Yeah it's obvious they're saving Luka's legs. He's taken on an overwhelming load so far this series. I thought way too much was made of Booker and Paul hunting Luka at the end of the game. It was clear that their success had a lot more to do with Luka being fatigued as opposed to him being a poor defensive player. A significant number of those 50 possessions against Luka happened in the first half and they didn't have nearly the same level of success when he had his legs.
  20. Luka began almost every possession in the high post to start the game as opposed to initiating the offense from the wing. In fact most of his offensive work today has been in the post.
  21. Powell has allowed us to get 2 offensive rebounds early in this game.
  22. Had the NCAA not dragged their feet on this issue and now totally abdicated any responsibility towards creating a suitable structure this could've been a boon for college basketball in keeping stars in school longer. Imagine if NIL was around for the Fab 5.
  23. The guy who actually came up with the draft pick valuation chart was a Petroleum engineer from the university of Arkansas. I forgot his name, but "It's Just Banter" discussed him on a recent podcast episode.
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