One more thing. Jason Kidd said the boat is not burning.

This one? This one we're watching right now.

I'm here because I have to be.

Dallas is going to get a seat at the table.

Nice. Penetrating thrust to the middle of people.

People forget about it.

Wait, wait, wait. One more thing.

I'm fired up. I'm fired up to Dirk. And welcome. You're still locked on to the Dallas Mavericks. Your team every day. My name is Nick Engstead. Media member coming to the after 10 years. Thanks for reading every day. Making Locked on Maps your first listen. And thanks for listening to this one more thing. It's a bonus episode of Locked on Maps. Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, New Customers can bet just $5.

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Head to Fanfare. to this one more thing. It's a bonus episode of Locked on Maps. Today's episode is brought to you by Fanduel. Right now, new customers can get $500 in bonus bets to use across the app. Head of Fandwell.com to take advantage of that. Today, I want to talk about the post game after the Pelicans game because Jason Kidd said something that a lot of Mavs fans are going to be upset about. Or at least according to Max Christie, he said something. So we'll talk about that.

We'll talk about the reason he thinks the offense is bad. Is that an excuse? Is that a worthy excuse? Well, I'll talk about Cooper Flagg's comments post-game two because Cooper Flagg said, this is the most I've lost since ever. Are we concerned about Cooper Flag and the losing that's happening for the Mavericks and for him right now? I just want to start with Jason Kidd because we've learned some things about Jason Kidd over his tenure here with the Dallas Mavericks. It's been a while. I mean, it's been a while. Think back to, it feels like it's been forever, decades. It feels like it's been with Jason Kidd because you go back to 2022. The Mavs went to the Western Conference Finals. That was a team with Luca Brunson.

Like that was, go all the way back then. I mean, there's just so many different iterations of this team that we've seen with Jason Kidd. And we've seen them go to the Western Conference Finals. We saw them miss the entire postseason. We saw them go to the finals. You saw them miss the entire postseason. or go to the playing game and then miss the playoffs.

And now we've seen this team.

And the thing that is consistent with Jason Kidd is that he is okay with failure. He is okay with losing. He is okay with putting guys in bad positions to see what they've got, what they're made of. And I think this team is exactly that. He doesn't know what he has in this team. We've said that from the very beginning of this season, putting out the lineups that he did, putting out the lineups without a point guard, putting the quote-unquote Cooper Flag as the point guard lineup out there. Jason Kidd didn't know what this team was going into this season. We thought we knew what this team was going to be. And then he hasn't known even more because of the injuries. And honestly, like, that is an excuse for this team to not be good, to not be playoff level,

I think, I guess.

But it's not an excuse to lose to this Pelicans team without Zion.

It's not an excuse to lose to that wizard's team without good players.

It's not an excuse for this team to look as bad as they have to be the 30th offense

to have six of the 30th offense to have

six of the 16 101 offensive rating games in the entire NBA so far the season it's not an

excuse to have that bad of a team right now but max christie was asked what was jason kids postgame

message to the team and on one hand of course he's going to say this but on another hand

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