Welcome back to a Western Conference version of the 15 and 60 mailbag and let's get at it right away here Danny a ton of questions about I just bought all these teams frankly

But the Dallas Mavericks we probably have more questions about them for any other team. So give us the goods on the North Texans

Well, that's gonna be the time we use good and Mavericks in the same sentence

So we got that going the Mavericks are 10 and 14 a disappointing foreign eight since the last 1560

Negative 2.6 net rating overall puts them 20 second in the league 13th and offense disappointing again

27th and defense tied for 8th in the West per the 530 projections with 36 wins and very big difference between Raptor and Elo Raptor

Remember is the one that is more about how good your players are Elo is more about how well you're playing now

48% Raptor 16% chance making the playoffs per Elo

Yeah, and obviously they finished an awesome two game set with the Warriors one of the more

Exciting sets that you're gonna see Luca out doing Steph Curry 42 points for Luca finally got the three ball going Steph

Create 11 3s 57 points of his own as the Mavericks even to that setup in Dallas got a lot of Christophe's Porzingus questions here

And let's talk here with Billy Hoyle who asks is porzingus one of the most overrated players in the league

I think there is some there is some merit to it because the excitement about porzingus has been more kind of his

Theoretical potential rather than you know like because we've talked about how he's ended somebody seasons with injury

Like it's not like he's had these huge playoff performances and a lot of that is opportunity

But the theory of porzingus as a you know theoretical rim projecting five who can space the floor

You know like there are ways to use that to make a really powerful offense you the Mavericks have been a keystone for a lot of our

Conversations there, but there are other players who do that now

He is less special now than he was before and he hasn't you know a part a lot of it's due to availability

He hasn't been out there, but availability matters, you know

It's just it is important for the Mavericks and we've seen that in his absence a lot this year too

Yeah, now he did have a pretty good playoff series against the Clippers last year

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