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Donovan Mitchell Doesn't PROVE that Small Guards Can Win in the NBA | Dallas Mavericks Draft?

Locked On Mavericks - Daily Podcast On The Dallas Mavs

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🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Dallas Mavericks are studying what it takes to compete with the NBA’s elite teams in the conference finals. Can Cooper Flagg & the Mavs take lessons from the playoff success of squads led by stars like Donovan Mitchell, Jalen Brunson, and Kyrie Irving to catch up and make their next postseason run?

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0:00.0

One more thing.

0:01.4

The conference finals are set in the NBA.

0:03.4

What things can the Dallas Mavericks learn from these teams?

0:06.1

When do they catch them?

0:07.1

We'll tell you.

0:09.5

Welcome here.

0:10.2

Still locked on to the Dallas Mavericks.

0:11.4

Your team every day.

0:12.5

My name is Nick Engstead.

0:13.7

And today I wanted to talk about the NBA playoffs because they're still happening.

0:16.9

And every round, we've kind of done these,

0:18.4

what lessons should the Mavericks learn from some of these teams?

0:20.9

And so let's talk about the conference finals. I'm here with Isaac Harris, the One More Thing King himself. And we've been talking a lot about the draft and the Combine, Isaac. But you know, there's still basketball that's getting played and not between guys with Combine jerseys on. Not Mab's basketball. That's right. But so now we got Thunder Spurs, Cavs, Knicks. The field is set.

0:41.1

And I just want to take a second and look at these teams and see if there's anything we can

0:44.8

learn from them. And the first thing that kind of stands out to me is the, we just railed

0:50.9

against small guards in the combine. And East is led by Donovan Mitchell 6-1, Brunson 6-1, led by two small guards, basically.

0:59.8

How have these teams made up for those guys?

1:02.2

Or how have those guys made it so far in this round?

1:06.1

I guess the Aaron Fox, too, is measured like 6-2 at the draft, too.

1:09.5

But it's interesting.

1:11.9

The small guards thing was a big conversation at the combine but yet these you know these teams are both led by these

1:16.0

small guards yeah I mean I think you just got to look at not to take anything away from

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