Around the NBA - March 2018

The Bucks are a HORRIBLE defensive team. If they would even be average in that area I could see them as a top 3 east squad.

 

They and the Thunder have been the league's biggest disappointments this year. I'm not disappointed of course. {)

 

Dirk probably has zero investment in tanking this late in his career. He probably legitimately wants to play decent basketball in his last years in the league. Tanking won't pay any dividends for the Mavs while he is an active player. I'd be pissed too wasting my last years pretending to care.

 

How will you want Dame to handle it when it gets to this phase of his career?

 

That Bucks team was tight when they had Ray Allen, Glenn "Big Dog" Robinson and Sam Cassell.

 

Yes.

 

Everytime you do when it comes to a playoff team getting upset, it never happens unless Lonzo hits 6 threes lmao.

 

okay then

 

When you mad made that statement, Dallas was down 4 near the end of the 3rd. Dallas then lost by 17. Lmao. It was like, right after that statement, Dallas' run just completely went to shit. It's a coincidence (I think).

 

They had just gone on a 14-0 run. It was very exciting.

 

IF you knew our 1st round pick would only land around 25th (instead of around 16 which it looked like at the time) in the draft would you go back in time and give it up for Mirotic? Guy is still balling out.

Now, I still not sure they would have done the deal with us as we would have had to send a bad contract and we would be in luxury tax this year (instead of getting out of it and waiting until next year) so this probably an even more pointless scenario then normal as it wouldn't have happened anyways but.. nice to dream I guess.

 

And just like that they hold a team to 14 points in a quarter. But on the whole season they are horrible in most defensive-metrics.

 

Definitely not to just roll over and participate in a tank job. There is just no pride in that IMO. I'd rather my team fight til the end regardless of lottery implications. I know there's plenty of guys here who support tanking but I think it's just bullshit in an industry that already overcharges fans to view their product.

 

Knicks winning tank battle in Sacramento

 

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Galaxy-0

 

He reminds me of the penguin from the Batman series

 

I don't know. Dirk and Cuban have been pretty loyal to each other for an awfully long time. Cuban clearly told Dirk he wants to tank. I could see Dirk doing Cuban a solid. And the Mavs aren't playing for anything either way. Dirk can go out and play his best, and the team will still lose. They legit suck. I don't see how it affects him at this point.

 

This is WRONG right? Why does he have US with a higher number than the Wolves if we are AHEAD of them in the standings? Am I missing something?

 

Also, Dirk has pretty much any Mavs front office job he wants when he retires, so he might be just as interested in landing the next star talent as he eases into the executive portion of his career.

 

If Dirk wanted to compete right now, he wouldn't still be playing for Dallas. It has been clear for two years that they are in rebuild mode and won't win much. He is probably fine with that as he should clearly understand the need to acquire better quality of talent, and as already mentioned above he might see himself as a front office part in the future so it will also be in his best interest to get a high draft pick.