First 15 and 60 of the season. This is always an issue when there's so many possible directions.

To go on these, we'll do some gamers, we'll catch up on some early season stat trends,

and let us begin with the Dallas Mavericks who currently sit at

four and one despite their loss to the Denver Nuggets as we record this late on

Saturday it's not that late,

Saturday afternoon.

The Mavericks have the eighth best net rating in the game.

We remember we use the Cleaning the Glass version

of many of these stats that are plus 5.4 per 100 possessions,

second in offense, 120.7, and 23rd in defense.

Yeah, and I wanted to make a correction from yesterday.

The in-season tournament, none of the in-season

tournament qualifying games are on the second night of a backpack, but some of them are

on the first night of a backback, which actually is kind of too bad,

although I just don't think it logistically would have been possible unless they're going to reduce the number of games in the regular season.

But like Chicago for example they're flying to Denver for the second night of a back-to-back today after

they're in season. So that is going to probably prevent some teams from

going as hard as they might have liked to so just a quick correction from yesterday

let's get into the Mavericks that we're using E B. P. I at this point now with the sad demise of 538.

Nate Silver has said he might get those projections back up. I like them a lot, but they

project right now for... Oh for 46 wins which would be the

the four seed in the West and an 83% chance of making the playoffs.

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