New Look Mavs Win Big; Are You Excited To Watch Them Going Forward? | K&C Masterpiece

New Look Mavs Win Big; Are You Excited To Watch Them Going Forward? | K&C Masterpiece

It’s time to talk about those new look Dallas Mavericks can I give a shout out real quick sure was it Cody who was at the Las Vegas Airport who said he’s a too and listens to us yes Cody right yep shout out to Cody because he asked this

Question what do you think of the Mavs before they played this game and what was my answer we’re going to kick all the ass because Dwight pal isn’t gonna play I said championship and you guys are like oh God but I mean I would still probably stand firm with that line after

One game said Champion I’m pretty sure I said we’re never losing again so like that was mine M too but yeah and so far we haven’t all right so anyway shout out to Cody too who was in the Las Vegas airport and you know we got back home he

Did too as far as we know yeah I don’t I don’t really know is I I will just throw real quick for people that were asking is the Mavericks did not get Spencer Den witty as he did sign with the Lakers however fine okay agreed you look at

That game against the Thunder and we’ll preface all this by saying it’s one game against the Thunder against the thunder in the NBA who are very good regular season where nobody cares about regular season games I mean it feels like the Thunder have cared a lot this year but I

Hear what you’re saying is this team looked fantastic it looked more complete in terms of what you wanted to see in the front court and you’re still dealing with some injuries and it just can’t help but I mean and I know BR said this

I don’t know a week or so ago is this team has just had so many injuries it’s tough to like really think about what they’re going to look like but making these two moves help hit a couple of their deficiencies man it was one game and I have to remind myself it’s one

Game I was actually talking to Taylor Hearn who’s in Japan right now getting ready for his season in Japan if you didn’t know that so congratulations to him on on his contract there and everything but he was asking me questions about the Mavs and I said

Taylor it’s only one game but that one game looked really impressive against a team that you might have to play in the first round okay let me ask you a question real quick about that because obviously we talked about this a lot with Gafford what I’m immediately going

To go to is what was most impressive to me was them on the board was there a specific element whether it was that or something else that you thought looked most impressive on Saturday the Mavericks were more physical they were attacking the boards more and all it

Took was I don’t want to say one guy because PJ Washington’s a very strong and physical guy too and they ma Clea look really good that game too they they they they got standing ovations when they checked in so I was watching the game from the start and it was like a

Standing ovation they both check in at the same time I’m going to assume about I don’t know four minutes or 5 minutes to go in the first quarter something like that and they get a standing ovation and their energy and their physicality is just something the Mavs

Don’t have they the Mavs are one of the least physical teams in all of the NBA so to add two guys that are athletic can run the court well they have more to their game than just like a kind of a one-trick pony and nothing against other guys but sometimes the Mavericks have

Been used to I’ll take Dorian finy Smith for example I really like Dorian finy Smith I would have liked if he would have come back to the Mavs but we know that Dorian F Smith can’t dribble or pass he just can catch and shoot and then he play defense that’s good but

These guys have the ability to get the ball and dribble it and score with people on them and then you’re watching them rip down rebounds and say no no no our possession isn’t over just cuz we missed I’ll get an offensive rebound and we can reset it that’s what happens 15

Times a game against the Mavericks and now it’s like ain’t going to happen 15 times a game it’ll happen other other teams will get an offensive rebound here and there but now you’re like wait a second Gafford and PJ Washington are going to slow down the other team’s

Ability to be like we’re stronger than you we’re more physical than you we might be more athletic than you like nope no we’re not Gafford and PJ Washington combined for his uh one less offensive rebound than the rest of the team combined so they had five and the

Rest of the team had six total and Gafford had four offensive rebounds on his own so Mike’s I mean dead on like now Luca gets another crack at it Kyrie gets another crack at it to put points in and like that’s a huge Factor it just seemed like Gafford was everywhere

Even if he missed rot and they’re still having to learn their rotations he was flying to AO shooter PJ Washington I still think he has a lot more to grow in but whenever it comes down to oh man Lively’s out tonight uh where are we going to get that production they would

Probably go I guess we got to go to Timmy tonight and now they can go elsewhere other than Timmy you can go to PJ you can also go to Gafford for points and I think the other thing too is Gafford can get points on his own just by being around and underneath the

Basket he can he can go back up he can get trash points sometimes where you he just grabs an offensive rebound or just you know G gives a tip back or or a put back yes and but you mean trash points in the positive pers is that we’re never going to post

Him up we’re not going to run plays for Gafford and the play you will run is obviously a pick and roll where he rolls to the basket for an alleyoop but it’ll be interesting because even in Dwight Pal’s Good Year and that was the year you went to the Conference Finals as

Soon as the playoffs started you’re like I remember asking the old Phoenix Suns general manager we’ve had him on a few MD MCD I’m like hey how come Dwight po was getting 10 points a game in March and April so easily and then the playoffs start and it’s like zero points

Zero rebounds like it’s one of the easiest plays to stop especially Dwight pal like he’s an easy person to stop you you can allow it in the regular season but you’re like yeah it’s Dwight pal we can shut this down in a second I’m wondering and I don’t know this when

Gafford and Derek Lively set the pick and they roll to the basket is it going to be that easy to shut down I don’t know cuz they can jump higher they they can actually catch a ball and maybe put the ball you don’t want Derrick Lively

To put the ball on the floor yet but you can see Gafford he can put the ball on the floor for one dribble and then make a spin move and do something but so I’m like this is different this is It’s one game so I need to see it I was telling

Taylor Hearn I need to see this for like 10 more games to see is this real what I saw Saturday afternoon is this real because if that’s real they can make it back to a Conference Finals I’m not predicting that yet let’s see how this month of February plays out with this

Team that was different yeah that and to to what you just said Luca and Kyrie can get them to the Conference Finals but but you have to have all the rest of the pieces there too and that’s what it looks like right now the the you said

Off air this morning you know is it enough time to get the chemistry where it needs to be for something like that to happen and I I stand by this I think because of the enthusiasm from both Gafford and PJ Washington of their situation they are somewhere where they

Have a chance they are somewhere where they can they want to make this work they didn’t just get thrown into this situation and by the way have you heard Gafford in the presser like he’s got Charisma he’s got he can talk I loved it I’m really excited to hear more from him

As we go along but they are enthusiastic about trying to make this work and being part of it so that’s what I think will speed up the process if you have resistance that’s going to be a problematic but you have two guys that seem to really want to be part of a

Winning situation and they’ve both been part of just completely losers right I mean they don’t even compete for playoff spots for the most part in their career so this is different the Mavericks are right now they eight seed they have 29 games left so Corey that’s what I just

Wonder you just see so many times it’s very very tough to make a midseason trade and for it to impact you completely it’s usually like the next year where you see it come together you have an off seon it’s it will be up to Jason kid uh it will be up to his

Coaching staff to figure out how quick can we mesh this because you’re limited in practice because you’re like hey Luca is playing 40 minutes a night that’s not going to stop see how much do you want him practicing and and then Kyrie has injury problems throughout his career

And he’s having injury problems again this year so these 29 games left I’m expecting Kyrie to play in 20 of them like I hope he plays in more of them but if he plays in 20 of them and LCA plays in let’s say 26 of them is that the

Threshold minimum to really feel like you’ve got a cohesive unit going into the playoffs that 20 games that would be a minimum right because even like Nico early on in the year he was getting interviewed and he said look and every person says the same thing I’m just

Repeating Nico cuz he’s our general manager now he says give me 20 games after after 20 games I’ll have an idea of what we lack and what we need and what we are good at well this gives Naco like there’s not he saw it very defined

And said we’ got to do it CU we all saw it too we all saw exactly what they needed and thank God Nico’s watching you know because I’m going to give Nico a lot of credit this is a different Mark Cuban never ran a franchise like this with himself running the franchise

You’re like wait why are we adding 35y olds to Luca when he’s 21 years old like these guys aren’t gonna be around to really create something and and so I think Nico sees it as I do have a superstar who’s 24 years old almost 25

Why don’t I try to add guys that are going to be around this league for five more years in a prime rather than adding guys that might be able to help for a second or two and so the thing is they have to get out of the eight seed so

Somehow some way for this to maybe make a run and I know you have to have the right matchups in the playoffs and maybe you get the wrong matchup in the first round even if you get out of the play in situ situation but I don’t I don’t know

How big of a run I know the Lakers did it I don’t feel like you can make a big run being a playin team and I don’t and that’s not a hard ask at all cuz five pretty quick I think yeah you can you’re

A game back of five now I realize as you would guess from 5 to eight there are multiple teams in the way but then you look at tonight like you have an easy opponent if you lose this game well hell we’ll have a completely different this

Is the kind of night where you just sit everybody though right is what you’re saying no I have I look we need to win this game and continue your forward momentum because they’ve won four in a row and all of a sudden maybe you don’t immediately take the

Five seat but if you can jump over Sacramento or New Orleans or at the very worst continue to create separation with the Lakers and the Warriors that’s what you need to do 100% And so I think they can now the thing is is to your point

Kyrie probably has to play more than 20 of 29 games if you’re going to if you’re going to get the five seed and I know yes you’re just a game back but it’s Phoenix New Orleans and Sacramento are barely ahead of you and you’re so far behind Denver and Oklahoma City I think

That would be really tough to get to four or three you’d probably at this point you have 23 losses you’re probably looking at with 29 games to go you could lose six more games and maybe get the four seed so I do not that’s 23 and six

The rest of the way to get the four seed you’re right mathematically I do not see currently a viable path to get into the top four like I I you’re right you could but I I think it’s number five or bus and I understand you need Kyrie feeling

Healthy going into the playoff so you do have to watch how much he plays on back-to-back games and three out of fours and stuff like that he has had a lot of rest already this season missing games I know they they were real injuries they’re not fake but if you

Want to get that five seat I just wonder how much you have to push Kyrie and Luca to you know like Pippen playing all the games yeah I’m just kind of looking at their schedule easier schedule the mat the the match up at the end of the game

I believe will decide whether or not the Mavericks get into the four seed you mean the m match up at the end of the season season yeah the match up at the end of the game cuz if we’re deciding it at the end of the game tonight I’m going

To be like well never mind Mavericks play the Thunder and I feel the Thunder will slip into the four spot and the Mavericks will have their opportunity to steal it the two things Mike that I that I I’m wondering when Derrick Lively’s coming back too real quick like was he

On the bench like is his face like super swollen have not seen his face uh whether or not it’s swollen but um I want that as a Dr the but there are two things that that just like Spirit was a big deal you saw Luca make a play with

Uh with Gafford and he was excited like you saw the oh my gosh I got I got something to work with we have something to work with I think it injected some enthusiasm excitement into the club itself where they were just like I don’t even know if I want to play tonight most

Nights and now they’re probably down this stretch going to be like let’s go man let’s go get something let’s hunt it and then on the other side Oklahoma City just throughout the end of that game looked they looked Stone dude they looked like they got knocked out knocked

Around and beat up and had no answer to a team that like the Mavericks they’re like man we’re we got to deal with them by the end of the year I promise you this I think the top four four five teams if you want to include it Minnesota Clippers Oak City Denver and

Phoenix they didn’t see Dallas as a threat at all if they had to play him in the playoffs they like this is great like they play no defense we are going to score 130 something points a game so as long as they don’t shoot 45% from three we’re going to beat the Mavericks

Almost every game and now let’s see this momentum that they just created because Oklahoma City had to at least look at that and go oh crap so matching up with Dallas in the playoffs might be an issue let’s see how Dallas plays the rest of the way Oklahoma City’s having a great

Regular season but if the Mavericks can keep playing this way and especially when they do play again a team like I don’t know their schedule but a phoenix a Denver and if they beat those teams oh they be Denver right then all of a sudden I think teams are going to start

Looking ahead of the Mavericks and going the Mavericks can’t catch us record-wise but crap we don’t want to match up with this Maverick team yes I Agreed

In their first game with the players they acquired at the NBA Trade Deadline, the Mavs might’ve played their most complete game of the season. Could P.J. Washington and Daniel Gafford be the piece that propel the Mavs to a long playoff run?

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