The official 2015-2016 Dallas Mavericks season watch thread

[Monkhouse]

Dallas down 13-31 to Orlando.

I believe...

31-44.

Please stop believing lol.

[Vox_Populi]

Dallas down 13-31 to Orlando.

I believe...

31-44.

Please stop believing lol.

Well, I tried.

[rondofan1255]

Beautiful loss. 27 losses now! Score! 

[MattyIce]

would obviously prefer to win tonight , but can Utah , Portland and Houston all push out the mavs?

[jmen788]

would obviously prefer to win tonight , but can Utah , Portland and Houston all push out the mavs?

There is only a 2 game difference between the Mavs pick (currently at pick 17 but tied with 2 other teams) and the #10 pick. But based on our bad luck with drafts and the Nets screwing us, I will bet the pick ends up being 17-20 range 

[JBcat]

would obviously prefer to win tonight , but can Utah , Portland and Houston all push out the mavs?

There is only a 2 game difference between the Mavs pick (currently at pick 17 but tied with 2 other teams) and the #10 pick. But based on our bad luck with drafts and the Nets screwing us, I will bet the pick ends up being 17-20 range 

If we end up with the Nets 5th pick and the Mavs 10th pick, maybe it will still give us a strong chance to package for a star if Ainge wishes to do so.   I don't know if the Mavs can hold up.  It may be more likely they finish with around the 10th pick than the Nets pick being 1 or 2.   

[chilidawg]

Highly unlikely they end up at 10.  538 currently projects them at 16, with a 73% chance of making the playoffs.  That said, the projections have them just ahead of the Rockets and Jazz, so there is a lot of variability there.  12 would be a great outcome, IMO.  10 would require a lot of bad teams to start playing much better, or a complete collapse by the Mavs.

The Kings are currently at 10, 5 games back.

[oldtype]

With our luck, they probably end up at 10 and then win the lottery.

[KG Living Legend]

That's actually a great point Old Type.

 Now I'm going to root for the Dallas pick to be at 15 so they are locked in there.

[oldtype]

That's actually a great point Old Type.

 Now I'm going to root for the Dallas pick to be at 15 so they are locked in there.

Yeah I'd take that deal any day of the week. Lottery night will be unbearable if the Mavs could potentially jump into the top 3, take away our pick, and then also knock the Brooklyn pick back 1 slot.

[KeepRondo]

That's actually a great point Old Type.

 Now I'm going to root for the Dallas pick to be at 15 so they are locked in there.

Seems like there's another drop off in talent after picks 6-14ish. Could be sooner or after. Hard to tell. But either way, I'm hoping Ainge gets to decide which player to take instead of taking the last one standing.

[mef730]

With our luck, they probably end up at 10 and then win the lottery.

Call me nuts but, as long as they don't knock us back (e.g., they get #3, we get #1), I'm okay with deferring the pick until next year. As things stand now, If they fell behind Utah, they'd be #13. With 24 games to go and a pretty good spread between them and teams on either side of them (again, we're pretending they fall behind Utah, so we don't care about Portland or Houston, either), that's likely where they'd stay. They're not in terrible shape cap-wise at the end of this season, although they will have to resign Zaza. Bottom line is that next year, they're not going to be too different than this year (even with a potential high-performing rookie). Would we be better off with a #13 in a weaker draft or a #13-15 in a stronger one next year, when we only have one other first-round pick?

My best-case scenario is very similar: Somebody gets a real Jonesing for a player available with whatever the Dallas pick turns out to be (I dunno, Skal or Buddy falls, something along those lines.) and gives up their 2017 unprotected for that pick.

Mike

[Quetzalcoatl]

It's early but David Lee looks pretty bad so far.  He did just get fouled, but the score is 18-8 with Denver up

[csfansince60s]

It's early but David Lee looks pretty bad so far.  He did just get fouled, but the score is 18-8 with Denver up

Go Denver Celtics!!!

[Quetzalcoatl]

Dallas can make a run at any minute, but this is going well so far.  David Lee was getting burned on defense before, but he's been their "bright spot" on offense with 7 points, so they might put him back in.  I guess they look equally bad either way.

The Nuggets aren't just looking like a threat to win this game, but to outright take Dallas' playoff spot.

Edit: wait, the Nuggets only have 23 wins?  Okay, scratch that last part.  At least if they win this, they'll be further out of range of the Nets on top of knocking down the Mavs.