2022-2023 Dallas Mavericks season thread: Luka's first MVP

[RexWilson 1345]

Let's Go Mavs!

I hope Wood crushes it in a 6th man role.

I love the city edition for this year

 

[Henry Hill 3156]

This start does not suck.

[Get ln My Van 927]

Looking like an easy path to the Finals 

[crum 525]

lets go mavs baby

[gsoda3 3245]

I freaking love javale McGee in the defensive paint.

[Drew 2401]

I mean is this game 8 of the Suns/Mavs?

How they let a Mavs team people picking you maybe be a “play in” team come back into your building and do this?

[Henry Hill 3156]

This middle does suck.

[crum 525]

feels inevitable

[Zepol87 9185]

Wood looks damn good. 

[Fastbreak 3975]

Damn. Wood is burning

[crum 525]

good lord Wood

[LurkingHorn 1066]

Christian Wood seems like a decent pickup less than 48 minutes into the season. 

[Henry Hill 3156]

[Fastbreak 3975]

Luka out. Build big lead
Luka in. Lose big lead

Interesting

[Fastbreak 3975]

Ummm. Maybe put Wood in?

[crum 525]

2nd half Luka looks horrid

[LurkingHorn 1066]

What an awful 2nd half. 

[irishtexan 11511]

Tough to win a basketball game when you don’t score any points for 3 out of the last 5.5 mins of the game

[crum 525]

another year being unable to grab rebounds oof

[gsoda3 3245]

Phx realized if they took the ball out of Luka's hands we don't have anyone else who can do anything with it.

[Henry Hill 3156]

This end sucked some serious dong. Should probably hold on to 22-point leads.

[Zepol87 9185]

Terrible

[gsoda3 3245]

I think we missed 10 FTs. And that's with Luka being perfect.

[irishtexan 11511]

We need a second dude. So, so fucking bad. We have no other dudes.

[gsoda3 3245]

I would take Jason kidd in whatever shape he's in right now.

[Fastbreak 3975]

Kidd taking out Wood when he brought in Luka was weird. I think he out smarted himself.

[Get ln My Van 927]

We lost because I went to sleep around half. That’s my bad, boys.

[Vic Mackey 47006]

We need a second dude. So, so fucking bad. We have no other dudes.

Yep. Another season of Luka and a bunch of guys who aren't consistent. Not a recipe for consistent success. No idea how or where they get this second guy at but if it doesn't happen, our ceiling is what we saw last year. Which is better than what we experienced for a decade after the championship but with a talent like Luka, it's wasting.

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Mavs will probably be the 5 or 6 seed in the West.

Oh and fuck Jalen Brunson

[Skipper 6127]

4 hours ago, Get ln My Van said:

We lost because I went to sleep around half. That’s my bad, boys.

Had a big lead in the 3rd when I turned it off.   FT shooting was horrendous (21-34).  That matters in close games. Wood had a good game but fucking 3-10 from the stripe.

[TexPx 2322]

[conVINCEd 21469]

Luka’s going off.

[LurkingHorn 1066]

Good to see no hangover from Wednesday. 

[LurkingHorn 1066]

Wood is such a breath of fresh air after having to watch KP for several years. He’s not quiet the rim presence on defense, but he’s not that bad. He can also put the ball on the floor better than I expected. Really fun player to watch. 

[Knoxtnhorn 5971]

Geez.  Just saw the score.  Nice.  Chris Wood seems like he's good.

[LurkingHorn 1066]

Man...NOP missing most of their starting lineup and this is the shit we run out there?

[bluto 4912]

What the f with the final possession

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

This shit where every late game shot by Doncic devolves into a 30 foot stepback three is for the fucking birds man, 

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

Just now, bluto said:

What the f with the final possession

It's literally what happens in every final shot situation over the last 3 years. Ever since he hit it against the Clippers he can't help himself. 

[gsoda3 3245]

Terrible effort tonight. Luka was being Luka in all his good and bad. Everyone else was standing and watching on offense and defense both. Great use of a timeout to draw up a final play

[LurkingHorn 1066]

This team can never seem to get off to a great start to the season. It's going to cost us a higher seed in a very crowded conference. 

[BallamaticBevo 56]

something is working. Just need to get more support from the cast offensively. JaVale could have more of an impact during his limited minutes too. 

[gsoda3 3245]

Game 1 we lost due to a stagnant 2nd half offense and bad 2nd half defense.

Game 2 we crushed a Memphis team missing 3 starters on the 2nd night of a back to back and a 3rd game in 4 days.

Game 3 we lost to a team missing 3 starters. Several people didn't put forth 100% effort on defense and it wrecked us. On offense they forced Luka to beat them and it worked. We had no off ball movement and no adjustments to Memphis's gameplan.

It's the start of the season and the good news is JKidd showed last year he can fix these specific problems.

[bluto 4912]

Lazy ass pass could cost em the game. Sucks considering how well he played, esp with wood having a quiet night. 

[bluto 4912]

Atsaway, luka setting em up in OT

[speed817 19250]

Good win

[conVINCEd 21469]

Schedule gets a lot easier over the next few weeks.

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Luka probably gonna win MVP if he stays healthy.

 

[gsoda3 3245]

i watched q1 and only saw highlights of the rest of the game.  it looked like we were guarding kyrie pretty well but he still managed to go off.  what a talent.

[BallamaticBevo 56]

my nuts were in my throat those closing moments of the 4th. When they trapped Luka and he made the lazy pass out of the double team, I thought we found a new way to lose close ones. Luckily we regrouped in OT. Doesn't hurt that your gang of sharpshooters were hitting corner 3's like a fat kid eatin cake