I'm Luca Donchitch and this is locked on Merrick's pockets.

This is gonna be huge!

360 in the contract.

Never that.

I just take the contact.

I bring it back. I'm running on the fast break behind the back.

Yeah, it's that, this, that, that's that jerk with the baa.

Three!

And the videos in the house tonight. Welcome, you are locked on the Dallas Mavericks. This is one of your co-host

Isaac Harris. I am a writer at maps.com co-host this podcast, obviously for the past four years, almost four years

with Nick, hosted this Mavericks podcast every single day, five days a week, sometimes six days a week, every single post game. And tonight, the

Lucanless Mavericks lost to the Pacers. Kind of frustrating just for the fact that Luca didn't play but we kind of got a little insight to that

What coming out of the all-star break I think when we heard you know Rick Carlisle talk about how these kind of these game

scheduled you know we saw that okc game that so many people were frustrated

about in which and you know the Mavericks rested both Luca, K.P.

They lose to a Thunder team that is going to be in the lottery.

Safe to say that probably.

And a lot of us got upset about it like dang this is you

know this is a team that's fighting for one of these last playoff spots this is a team

that's fighting for you know to be in the top six and to try to avoid this playing tournament for them to kind of give up these games in a way to an O. K.C. team.

I could see how it could be a little frustrating for some people but I kind of understand it too because you have to go into this final stretch this second half. I'm doing air quotes on that because it's not really the second half of the season and try to manage these minutes, right?

I mean, the number one goal going into the playoffs is to have a healthy Mavericks team,

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