Kenny Beecham expects the Mavs to stay within the top 6 teams in the West 👀 | Numbers on the Board

Kenny Beecham expects the Mavs to stay within the top 6 teams in the West 👀 | Numbers on the Board

Okay we miss the maricks are a great team to talk about because I don’t know if we really dove into them on how we feel and how we what type of expectations that we have yeah going forward because they’ started the season off I think better than we expected

Obviously they uh lost Luca or whatever um but they still have maintained how do y’all picture them shaping up in a strong Western Conference uh Pretender Contender I still think they’re a dangerous scene to go to the Conference Finals as always I think when you have

Luka um he’s shown that he’s that good to where he can take you that far um but as far as like winning it all it still kind of seems a little too early um I still think Derek Livy needs a little bit more time to develop I don’t think

You’re going to go into the NBA finals and win it with a rookie Center uh you need some time uh he needs to get a Little Bit Stronger when you talk about that true physicality of the playoffs um but I do think they’re a dangerous team

I don’t think no one wants to play them I it’s been years now that the Clippers had to go Toe to Toe with Luca they went down 2 against him in a bubble no after the bubble um yeah so yeah it’s they’re a dangerous team to go to the convers

What would be your expectation for them um since you know that you’re not you’re saying Lively’s too young but they still dangerous so what is a solid year where fan mad fans should be like okay uh I think them standing around that 65 for range maybe going to the second or third

Round um second or third third round third round you right there yeah if they get there then if you do that with a rookie if you get to the Conference Finals that mean you you can get to the finals with a rookie Center you think so you think you’re right

There yeah you’re right there but yeah you could probably get a I think Luca final four I think Luca’s good enough to get you there but I still think you need that extra from that I think it’s my expectation will be like the semicon finals second round yeah and it honestly

Comes down to cuz I I think they’re really dangerous especially how they shoot the ball they got Luca and Kyrie who are can do anything offensively still worry about them defensively I think the P the piece they missing not necessarily who but they just need some

Type of wing that can slide his feet and get stops for them just one honestly I feel like that’s kind of all they need but I’m looking at the standings and like if they’re staying where they at in that top six they could leave they could

Get out in that first round you know playing the top of these top seeds so you got to work your way up and maybe you can play one of the Lesser teams in in you know the second half or playoff start if the playoffs started today they would be facing against the Denver

Nuggets I don’t think they want that at all they don’t want that at all but luckily for them I think they’re they’re in a great position where they have two guys that the opposing team have to treat like number one options like you literally have to defend Luca and Kyrie

As if they’re both number one out there’s no chance that they could do the the big thing against that team in the first round they’re slim it’s very slim lukas’s Legacy man if he knock those dudes out I love that the fact that it’s like we

We think about it we know it’s a slim chance but LCA is really that good I’ve never like it’s been a long time like very LeBron James at s seeing like a player that just post up he could dominate a game from the post up spot

You got to help or it’s just it’s a it’s a basket that’s the best part of it and it’s just like how you do that from a dude that also can dribble and pick a roll and take a step back three from 35 ft out it’s just like he he’s really got

The whole package when he I mean he probably same athletic is as me like you don’t he don’t got no burn no he don’t got what I’m trying to say he don’t got burning speed he doesn’t jump out the gym you can’t touch the net he can dunk

I can’t touch the net no that’s a lie I could touch Rim what do you think D you can touch Rim I could grab glaze room could you touch one of I don’t even know if you could touch one of these lights now y’all getting disrespectful he can

Touch one of these lights I hope these short ones I hope he can’t this one right in front of me crazy he’s not touching that light right here in front of me that’s the highest one in here he better be able to no that’s I I can he

Should be able to is he touching that right there like you walk the entrance I hope so maybe I’m bugging but I I hope you touching that mik what you see the entrance the you know how when you a kid you try to dunk yeah I do I I still I

Still do that when I’m walking in my like apartment building I’m touching the ceiling go do it that right there go do it right now we we’ll let y’all know behind the scenes if wish had like turn the camera no look at look how short that it he doing it without jumping my

Fault my fault I thought it was a little high yeah the perception is is kind of kind of weird sitting down I thought it was higher Luke is definitely more athletic than you I’m sorry oh for sure I would because strength is part of athleticism yeah it is and he is

Strong that’s his biggest attribute in athleticism he is strength and balance I think who was it uh for Luca I I think so I think I thought you doing your own no no no not me I think St Steve Nash was talking about uh about it too like

Balance is a part of athletism being able to do all these like him turning his body and making a behind the back pass to the corner like that Tak some type of you know who’s one hell of an athlete who Michael Jackson Man Michael Jackson was one hell of an athlete how

So are you just talking about the dancing I’m talking about the dancing the balance he had it all he might have been 5 foot I thought KB had knew like he was out here hooping or something I didn’t know now that’s prince prince was the Hooper um to get back to your

Original question about about the my expectations for I expect them to maintain one of the top six spots and it’s not a guarantee I think they’re only half game above the team that’s beneath them they half game above two teams um so yeah I expect keep that from

The Pelicans they’re a team that barring the right circumstance and the right series I see I could see them get into second so if they match up with OKC is that a that I’m taking OKC in that series but it’s a series it’s a seven gamees it’s a

Series bro it’s one of them ones I’m like damn I can’t wait for that now okay feels like a team that’s pretty safe at one or two so that would mean the Dallas either fell down to the playin and and advance that way um but I you know they

They only a game back from the a half game back from the Pelicans which would put them five behind the Clippers that would be another first round match up the Clippers versus Luca again I the Clippers they gonna show an example to his they need yeah I mean cuz right now he been

Doing his thing individually obviously he ain’t won every series but uh yeah I I like the team a lot though they’re they’re team about OKC are they true contenders or Pretenders and how much do y’all value experience I value it a lot when it comes to playoff time I think Young

Teams they might be good as we saw with Memphis but when it comes to playoff time I think they’re very vulnerable um and it just shows a little bit and so I think them being a two seed is good it’s fun they’re having a great year especially coming off what they’ve been

Going through with this rebuild but I still think being this young is too early to put them as a contender you know who it is that does it go get Nicholas Claxton just go get him and put CED at the four yeah yes that’s what he played

All summer league that is a long lineup um but they’re not they’re a small team yeah outside of chat everybody else in this roster is 68 or smaller like they need more size and and Nicholas CLA is not like he’s seven-footer he’s a smaller big but he’s a bigger big if

That makes sense he’s more after last night the Nets going to be looking at him a little closer you know how that go one get an amazing game and not of franchise like M uh but no are they real contenders I’m going to say yes um even though they

Lack I mean the only people that have playoff experiences Shay has I think a series or maybe two no two series because he had the one with Chris Paul and the one before he got traded the one with the big comeback um and then dois bowns that that’s it nobody else’s

Playoff experience on the roster um and that that’s obviously really scary but if we take away that Isaiah Joe was on the 76 he ain’t play but he was count he know what it’s like to be in a lock he got that extra bonus for making the

Playoffs before um you take that away there’s no other excuse to not like that’s the only thing they are top five offensive team top five defensive team as we know that is the recipe to win a championship their their point differential is ridiculous they have a superstar player like they have every

Single thing other than the experience and experience might be the biggest thing M but everything else is like when I think of like experience I think about just like the Reps and the amount of times you’ve been there for like these younger players that haven’t yes they

Have a top off five like top five offensive defense in that season but once obviously the game slows down it’s just like being who has seen these coverages before and who has stepped up in these moments cuz like sh Shay yeah Shay is going to do his Shay is probably

Like the least question mark you could have for OKC but you know like they’re going to throw every single coverage at like every single coverage at him to try to slow him down at least try to get a couple games cuz like you just need to

Steal one or two to try to wrap up a series are they a teen that y’all can see if they match up with the Suns who have a lot of experienced KD dbooks they’ve all been to the finals uh that’s that to me looks like a series where I

Think the Suns can come out on uh I think OKC could come out on that too I think they could for sure and I think it’s because like Phoenix hasn’t really shown that they’re perfect yeah you know and so like they do have the experience and everything but it’s just

Like those top dudes they gonna have to do everything for y’all unless you know I don’t know Josh and K’s turning up or you forget about Grayson Allen my fault Shooters are the people I worry about when it comes playoff times cuz it’s like they don’t get no looks no

More who would y’all taking that serious OKC or OKC for Suns I’m probably taking the Suns damn just cuz I’m Kevin Durant that’s match up against the uh Timberwolves uh I’m G take in the timber wolves I would take the Timberwolves too interesting okay because per personally

I see the OKC Thunder of more of contenders than the Timberwolves oh no no no I think I think the Tims are much more into that mod Mike Cony the reason they their offense sucks they have a bad offense but the thing is when it comes to the playoffs you score everybody’s

Offense kind of takes a dip so you tell that their 20th offense is going to dip even more damn I’m saying theirs is probably going to be fine like they’re going to still stay around that range and they’re still going to be okay I think Anthony Edwards and cat is going

To produce enough offense for you to where you can stay in those games and I still think you have that good defense that you can rely on on a night toight basis even when your offense is struggling I see what you saying but at the end of the day scoring is is going

To matter a lot in the playoffs I think you have two legitim they’re the 21st offensive team no team has ever been in a Conference Finals as bad as this off you have to consider the fact that they also trying to they also playing with

Two bigs they’re going to do that I know but that the reason why they have one of the best defenses in the league is because they’re playing with those two I telling you and I don’t know what the future hopes I’m just I’m just saying based on the statistics of the league

20th offense or lower does not make runs it just doesn’t

The Numbers on the Board crew discuss weather the Dallas Mavericks, Oklahoma City Thunder & Minnesota Timberwolves are contenders or pretenders.

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