On today's show, the Mavericks' biggest problem is their identity.

But it's not the only one.

This is Cooper Flagg, and you're listening to Locked on the Five.

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All these changes, you know, I still got my dog Dwight Powell.

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A lot of the Locked on Podcast network. I still can't be able to. Your team every day. I'm going to get a city like that. And welcome you're locked on to the Dallas Mavericks, your team every day. My name is Nick Engstead. Media member covering the Mabbs for 10 years. Thanks for reading and every day. You're making Locked on Mavs. your first listening in the lockdown podcast network, the number one sports podcast network. You guys helped get us there.

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the number one sports podcast network. You guys helped get us there. Joining me, as always, my co-host, meeting member of the MAPS for 10 years right alongside me. The identity individual, the one more thinking. What you got for me, Isaac Harris? We should put on the thumbnail out for this like a thumbprint, like identity series.

Oh, yeah.

Now shout out to the Mavs.

We got the Rick Harlow coming in town on Wednesday night and a gosh, B-C squad for the Pacers.

And then this weekend,

they actually get on a plane and fly high in the air to Mexico City.

They will fly all the way there.

And I'll mark that game down in Penn. I think that's a good, I think that's a good one for the maps. That'll be a good, that'll be a good game. Before you mark it down, did you mow your grass? I have mowed by grass, you know, but I had to move this pot to the side and I had, you know, he had to like mow around, like, you don't, can't can't just mow around it you got actually like move the pot and like do that yeah because if you don't move it you you're gonna be

trapped by like the smoke of your neighbor after today's today's episode we're ranking the maverick's

biggest problems right now mavats are one and three they've got some issues they've been

talked about a lot and so we'll get into it. We'll talk about, I think injuries is obviously when we'll talk about the maps have some like new injuries, some injuries that were one injury and now is a different injury that we've gotta talk about and address with some players. Anthony Davis now on the injury list. I'm sure there's some other problems we'll get into, but let's start here, Isaac Harris. The Mab's biggest problem is identity. I think everything stems from identity. We know what to expect from the Dallas Mavericks. You can say, obviously, well, the biggest problem is they're missing Kyrie Irving. Yes, but we knew that going in. I think if the Mavs were competing and without Kyrie and we were like, Okay, we didn't expect the Mavericks to be the number one seed, the number two seed without Kyrie, right? Right now they're not living up to even those expectations that were lowered because of some of these injuries that the Mavs have dealt with. I think it is the identity of this team that is that they're struggling with. And some of it is, I understand, actually, because they did bring 13 of the 15 players back from last year, but a bunch of those guys didn't play very much. Like, Lively and Anthony Davis played less than 10 games together last year, right? And so there is a lot of newness. There's Cooper Flagg to introduce to all this. There is not a, there's not really a point card. DeAngel Russell then is now introduced to all this and he is now a big cog in what the Mavericks are going to do because he is now like the only point, like the only serviceable point card that the maps have on the roster it seems according to Jason Kidd in his rotations. And then the defensive identity, I don't know what the Mavs defensive identity is. They're trying to figure that out.

They're supposed to be playing big, but Gafford has been out, Lively has been out, lively has not been playing. And you're like, all right, well, then they can't play big. So then they don't know what their identity is because of injuries, because of personnel. And I think that identity is just shaping everything else. I think the identity shapes even how Cooper Flagg has played,

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