Kleber’s been hesitant to take a shot before this game (see the hot potato he played with Luka before the 3-point hook shot). If we could just take THJ’s confidence and sprinkle it around the roster I think the team would be a lot better.

The Mavs are who we expected them to be last season: offensive juggernaut that can play defense when it counts. Their ceiling goes up the more comfortable they get playing together and they’ve just got to focus on consistency with their execution at this point. Top 10 defense and top 3 offense is in play, especially with Lively playing so solidly early on and DP evolving into his ultimate form off the bench.

I’m not too worried about the rotations, we knew from before a minute of meaningful game was played that there was going to be experimenting going on. The fact that they can experiment and also win games, while getting some valuable clutch time experience is kinda huge.

This team is good enough to turn every game into a coin flip, thanks to their ability to score and inability to play consistent defense they could end up with 82 clutch games this season and I wouldn’t be shocked. That being said, lol at assuming a loss or win against any team.

This game would’ve been a blowout if the Mavs had just played defense starting from the first quarter. There’s no way we could do that to Wemby, it would be too cruel.