On today's show, I'm looking at this Dallas Maverx team differently after tonight.

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I think that's a good question.

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A notch. A notch, if you will. A notch if you will. We'll talk about the Mavs. Lost to the Cavaliers. A game not super surprising to me. Didn't follow the normal script of Mavs games, but the Mavs lose this one. Cooper Black goes off in the third quarter. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about

Najee Marshall, talk about Ryan Nemhardt, talk about some of the things we saw and some of the things that I saw in this game. But let's start here slightly biased. I'm looking at this team differently after a game like this because I think after this last stretch of games that we just watched and yes it comes on the end of a road trip yes this game specifically was

second night of a back to back aback, a travel back-to-back where they came from, you know, they came from Memphis. Or they, where did they play last night? Memphis, I believe. They played in Memphis. They played in Memphis. And then they come here to the American Airlines Center. they play this game at a 630 little earlier.

This body, the body language of this team just looks like, all right, we just, we don't have any chance tonight.

Like we got no shot.

Like we just one, two, three, Cancun.

Basically where they are right now.

Now, will that change after they're able to get a couple of days off?

Maybe, like maybe that changes and the fight comes back and we see this team act like they were before. But when you get beat down this many times over and over and over and over again, at a certain point, the team just goes, all right, we're not stupid. We know who we are. We know who we are at this point. And then maybe you get frustrated and lash out like Russell Westbrook did to the media the other day. And he's like, what did you guys expect us to win the championship when you have the worst team of the NBA? I don't think the Mavericks are doing that yet. But I'm looking at this team and now call me up, call me like a homer or whatever, but I'm grading everything on a curve from here out the rest of the season. Anything positive we get, I'm going to just be like, that's amazing. Cooper flag, his third quarter, awesome. It's graded on a curve because this team is not being set up for success in any way because of roster, injuries, you know, whatever, the team wants to tank, lose, whatever you want to say. This team is just not set up for awesome things to happen. So if anything awesome happens the rest of the year, I'm grading it on a curve. If anything negative happens, I'm honestly not holding it against anybody right now. Yeah, I mean, tonight's game was real bizarre. I've actually interested to hear if you feel the same. They got crushed. Score wise. Half time was just awful. I mean, second quarter, you had that fake comeback where they came back to seven, and you're like, all right, here we go. Here's the script. The Mavs go down big early. Then they come back and they fight back and make it a clutch game. And then the second half was just like, no, nothing. Like absolutely brutal. I don't think they played horrendously, which is kind of funny.

The Calf team is good.

They're very good.

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