Time for a little Western conference over under action here and once again to remind you if you didn't listen to the east

These odds are from the Westgate Superbook as of about a week ago

It was the best we could find a fire a article on the action network and let's start with one that I thought was a bit of a struggle

The Dallas Mavericks 41.5 over under I totally grew few that this is a tougher one and part of it is just

figuring out what the concept of the team is and where where I settled on this is I think the Mavericks at full strength are

Better than a 500 team however betting the over in that sort of a circumstance when the team is closer to the margin

Means that you're betting they're gonna stay healthy and not only because Christophe Prusengus has history and is a large human being

But also just because the average basketball team gets saddled with injuries whether it's to a starter for 20 games or to a key backup for

35 you know can be a lot of different ways that affects the team so even though I like the Mavericks and I think there's a very decent shot that they make the playoffs

If I'm gonna play the percentages here, I feel weird about it, but I'm gonna go under yeah

I will also this is a team that really has not proven to be that good with this group Blue Cadantich

I mean there's a number of things that we're relying on for the big improvement last year

Obviously Prusengus didn't play a minute for them, but the maves 37 expected wins

They were once again per usual in this not making the playoffs semi-tanking era under Ric Carlyle much worse than would have been

Expected 37 wins expected, but they finished 33 and 49 and

They were the number 19 offense and the number 19 defense a year ago

So what's the story for all of that improving well Luca Donchitch getting a lot better on offense

I mean they did have some vets who were not bad

We remember West Matthews and Deandre Jordan were a part of this I think those guys helped them on offense with their shooting

This year, you know, it's a little bit of a question of where outside of Donchitch and Prusengus where the offense and the shooting is coming from this

You maybe that's him hard away

He's missed time last year with that stress reaction

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