2023 - 2024 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - I'm watching, just like you guys

[Trey3216 15350]

1 hour ago, Gengs1 said:

This is to move the team to Vegas.

Vegas has all of the major sports beside men bball and this will get it to them 

100% the Mavs will not move or be moved to Vegas.  I will bet any sum of money on that 

[Fastbreak 3989]

There is going to be a 4 to 5 billion expansion fee. 2 new teams would put 8-10 billion in the current owners pockets. It’s a strange time to sell the team.

[tx 3 putt 77228]

2 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

So is Adelson family mob?

mega maga 

[Firemans4Horn 18117]

1 hour ago, Trey3216 said:

100% the Mavs will not move or be moved to Vegas.  I will bet any sum of money on that 

yep. There is absolutely 0 chance the Mavs move to Vegas. The franchise is bigger than Cuban or this new piece of shit owner. 

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1 hour ago, Fastbreak said:

There is going to be a 4 to 5 billion expansion fee. 2 new teams would put 8-10 billion in the current owners pockets. It’s a strange time to sell the team.

Cuban also stepping down from Shark Tank. Now this. Is there an undisclosed health problem? Cuban has never been shy of being on camera.

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1 minute ago, BeardIP said:

Prediction markets put his running for President at 25%.

Cuban for POTUS? We've had worse, but we've had a whole lot better. That is unless Russia is willing to make a Broadcast.com type deal.

[Ignatius 4017]

22 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

He gets $3,5 billion and still runs and controls the team? Lulz.

Mark Cuban is a fucking genius…

[Vic Mackey 47090]

43 minutes ago, Ignatius said:

Mark Cuban is a fucking genius…

Absolutely. I just wonder what someone would want to purchase majority shares in an entity but have no real control.

[cmontexas 3272]

He probably got way in debt making insane crypto bets

[gsoda3 3274]

Cuban sold his majority stake to buy political influence to bring the world's first destination sports betting mega complex to Dallas.  

The Adelson family sold 10% of their stake in LVS to buy into a vision that would catapult the Sands Group into the world's foremost transactor of sports gambling.  

Both parties think they're buying in to 1920s Las Vegas.    

edit:  grammar

Edited November 30, 2023 by gsoda3

[Don Johnson 4754]

 

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[idigTexas 2289]

The Mavs have mostly been winning against teams without a pulse, but it's always nice to take down the Lakers.  I don't know how they managed it with most of the team injured, but I'll take it.  The West is just brutally evenly matched.  I can see Dallas finishing anywhere from 2 to 12.  Realistically, the 6-seed feels about right, but so much depends on which teams can get healthy and play to their potential. 

 

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[LurkingHorn 1066]

Suns fans must absolutely hate Luka. It’s glorious. 

[gsoda3 3274]

Luka this year is playing so smart. Night and day from the end of last season.

[LurkingHorn 1066]

I still think Kidd is a very meh coach. Our lineup obviously is not all his fault, but I’m so tired of watching other teams go on gigantic runs without any timeout taken. 

[Zepol87 9188]

Booker is still a bitch

[gsoda3 3274]

Beth Mowins and whoever her partner is are terrible. They don't add insight and all they do is call out a player's name as they touch the ball.

How was the foul on booker not a flagrant? He hit Grant on the head.

[gsoda3 3274]

Kids needs to defend his players and challenge these calls. Coward.

[LurkingHorn 1066]

Eat shit, Booker. 

[Knoxtnhorn 6064]

9 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

Beth Mowins and whoever her partner is are terrible. They don't add insight and all they do is call out a player's name as they touch the ball.

How was the foul on booker not a flagrant? He hit Grant on the head.

LOL.  Her broadcasting made me miss the game.  When I turned it on and saw the two announcers, I put it on mute, which led me to immediately fall asleep.  Thanks a lot Mowins.

[gsoda3 3274]

that's funny.  i tried watching it on mute but started nodding off so i turned the audio back on.  i started pretending i was at the game and they were phoenix fans sitting a row behind me and that i was eavesdropping on their conversation.  that made it a little better.  

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You missed out @Knoxtnhorn. That was as masterful a display of basketball as I can remember seeing in a very, very long time. I think people are underrating it because he went about it so casually. It was fucking insane.

[Firemans4Horn 18117]

[LurkingHorn 1066]

I’ve seen a lot of choke jobs and this one is up there with the worst of them. 

[Firemans4Horn 18117]

This is an absolute bag of shit roster the Cavs are running out tonight. Fuck Cuban and the old fucking cunt he’s selling the team to. 

[Boss Hogg 808]

On 11/29/2023 at 6:17 AM, Trey3216 said:

I think this is a power play by Cuban and the Adelsons to use the Mavs as a threat to the Texas legislature to get a real casinos in TX vote oh the books sooner rather than later.  Threatening to move the Mavs to Vegas (they won’t).  Then when Vegas gets an expansion team, the Adelsons will be the owners of that franchise and will sell their rights to the Mavs back to Cuban (with Dirk as minority investor). 

He thinks franchise values are topping out. 
 

 

[Firemans4Horn 18117]

I don’t watch much NBA but what the fuck are the Mavs doing?

[dcar00 14316]

20 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

I don’t watch much NBA but what the fuck are the Mavs doing?

being the Mavs and winding up in the 6-8 seed with a top 3 player in the game.

[gsoda3 3274]

williams has been not good to put it nicely.

[wutang75 449]

being the Mavs and winding up in the 6-8 seed with a top 3 player in the game.

I don’t know if anyone has had this thought but the Mavs are wasting Luka.

[LurkingHorn 1066]

Really good win last night while still being down 2 starters. I

[gsoda3 3274]

kyrie was special on offense last night but man... our team defense was *so* good.  esp luka and kyrie.  dwight powell also impacted the game in a major way with his constant energy.  he was also huge playing the pivot on the FT line and making the right and timely pass almost every time. i don't know if we get the same result with lively at this point in his career.  i'm glad he saw what that looks like.

[LurkingHorn 1066]

Man. I don’t know what to think of this bunch. Lose to a terrible, short-handed Memphis team then beat the Knicks who were on a 5 game winning streak. 

[Tommy Shelby 188]

7 hours ago, LurkingHorn said:

Man. I don’t know what to think of this bunch. Lose to a terrible, short-handed Memphis team then beat the Knicks who were on a 5 game winning streak. 

Streaky like my underwear after taco night 

[LurkingHorn 1066]

I just can’t take this team seriously. Maybe it’s Kidd, maybe it’s just battered fan syndrome. But losses like tonight are  just inexcusable. 

[LurkingHorn 1066]

Like, what is this? It’s your team, bro. 

[dcar00 14316]

11 hours ago, LurkingHorn said:

I just can’t take this team seriously. Maybe it’s Kidd, maybe it’s just battered fan syndrome. But losses like tonight are  just inexcusable. 

Kidd is a .500 coach.  it doesn't matter what players you give him.  

[LurkingHorn 1066]

15 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

Kidd is a .500 coach.  it doesn't matter what players you give him.  

It’s not unreasonable to think he should have been fired last year for completely missing the play-in game with 2 top 15 players in the league. Roster issues aren’t really his fault, but there are major red flags that have been there and that are still there. 

[gsoda3 3274]

A coach needs to improve his team to more than the sum of its parts otherwise what's the point of having a coach. Jason Kidd does not do that and he clearly does not strive to do that. He seeks to be the team's emotional ballast but this young group needs much more than that.

[LurkingHorn 1066]

1 hour ago, gsoda3 said:

A coach needs to improve his team to more than the sum of its parts otherwise what's the point of having a coach. Jason Kidd does not do that and he clearly does not strive to do that. He seeks to be the team's emotional ballast but this young group needs much more than that.

It’s a shame there wasn’t any history on him to see this coming. 

[JohnnyRage 1617]

Fun game. My finger was hovering above the buy ticket button. I pussed out. Haven't been to a game in a while. $15 bucks to get in the door.

[LurkingHorn 1066]

1 hour ago, JohnnyRage said:

Fun game. My finger was hovering above the buy ticket button. I pussed out. Haven't been to a game in a while. $15 bucks to get in the door.

That cheap? Wow. 

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8 hours ago, JohnnyRage said:

Fun game. My finger was hovering above the buy ticket button. I pussed out. Haven't been to a game in a while. $15 bucks to get in the door.

Did that last second with the family. Win.

[LurkingHorn 1066]

I'm shocked that a Jason Kidd-led team came out after 5 days of rest and practice only to play like absolute trash against a team playing their 3rd game in 4 nights. I think I read somewhere the Mavs are like 1-3 vs teams on their 2nd night of a back-to-back. 

[gsoda3 3274]

boston played good 1v1 defense and didn't double unless it was in the paint and the ballhandler had picked up his dribble.  our only offensive gameplan was get out and run.  when that wasn't available we defaulted to hero ball.  on nights like this i wonder if luka appreciates rick carlisle a little bit more. 

[Vic Mackey 47090]

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[dcar00 14316]

holy shit Phoenix is a bunch of floppers

[Firemans4Horn 18117]

On 1/23/2024 at 11:27 AM, Vic Mackey said:

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this is great. Watching them in the regular season (legally) for the first time in years.