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locked on podcast network, your team every day. The All right, welcome in Locktown Mavericks for Wednesday, February 8th, episode number 82.

This is the end of our regular season. I'm Mike Marshall. He's Jacob Kimp.

He's at Not Jack Kimp. I'm at Machine Sports and you can follow the show as well.

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locked on mabs at gmail dot com what we're going to do today is mainly pick

over the the contest last night the happenings at the AAC.

So, Mazzlose at home in one of the more fun games that we've seen this season.

They fall to 23 and 32 in the season.

Three and a half games back of the eighth seed now.

They've lost to the two teams that were in front of them, which kind of sucks, but, uh, so six lead changes in the final minute.

Mav's going a 13-0 scoring run after Portland goes on a 13-0 scoring run and I've got about

four I think I got four solid reasons as to why I blame this loss not solely on

Rick Carlisle but one of the very few times this

season and over the last seasons when I've gone yeah Rick kind of cost them that

game what are you what are your feelings overall about the contest, I guess, before we jump in deeper?

Well, first of all, I don't think they really had any business being in this game in the fourth quarter.

I mean, Portland had tons of open looks in the

first quarter that and in the second quarter that weren't falling and they were

still up by like 15 or 13 or whatever at the break. So I don't know.

Dallas was lucky to even be around.

Yeah, I kept telling myself Portland is the worst defensive team in basketball,

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