« Reply #46 on: October 11, 2023, 06:44:35 PM »
Mav’s lose to Real Madrid 123-127…Wow.
Vincent Poirier had 19pts, 10rebs, 6blks. Guerschon Yabuselle added 18pts, 9rebs, 3stls and Facundo Campazzo with 20pts, 8ast, 6rebs.
Dallas looks set for a BAD season.
I actually like their top two but their supporting cast is all wrong. Too many young ones. Too many non-defender veteran role players (T Hardaway, Kleber). They are in trouble.
Another missed playoffs looks likely.
They shot themselves in the foot when they traded for Kyrie, then they doubled down on it. Beginning of the end for Luka's time in Dallas. Still, can't dump on them for losing a game where Luka played 5 minutes total and Kyrie didn't even play.
I don’t care if Luka and Kyrie didn’t play, they just lost to Euroleague team that features Gerschon Yabuselle and Vincent Poirier. They have zero NBA caliber players. That’s just embarrassing.
I didn't see the game but it seems like a pretty bad indication if DAL supporting cast after Luka and Kyrie is no better than a EuroLeague team.
you take the 2 best players off of most teams and I'm not sure they are better than a Euroleague team. I mean how good is Denver without Jokic and Murray or the Lakers without Lebron and Davis or the Bucks without Giannis and Lillard. Heck even the deeper teams like Boston aren't going to be very good without Tatum and Brown or the Warriors without Curry and Klay. It isn't just losing the 2 best players either it is losing basically your team identity, the offensive engines that make the whole thing work, etc.
We are talking about a team full of NBA players. I expect KCP, MPJ, A-Gordon, Christian Braun and Reggie Jackson to beat a Euroleague team. Same goes for Middleton, Portis, B-Lopez, Beasley, and Payne.
I think that might just mean you don't watch a lot of Euroleague?
Are Euroleague teams regularly beating NBA teams? Just looked through some of the scores from last years preseason and the Non-NBA teams were getting blown out every game.
The gap gets smaller every year, and that Dallas roster doesn't exactly inspire confidence, as you say.
That said, it's pre-season - I think we all know better than to read too much into the tea leaves.
the game was also in Spain and I'd bet a lot of people would recognize a whole bunch of names on Real Madrid, which isn't the case with the New Zealand Breakers or Cairns Taipans. And Real Madrid has beaten NBA teams in the preseason before. In fact, Luka was on the team the last time the NBA played a game there. The Thunder's starting 5 in that game was Westbrook, Oladipo, Roberson, Sabonis, and Adams. And Ilyasova and Freedom were on the bench (among others). Luka played 18 minutes and scored 3 points for RM (luka was 17 at the time). Rudy Fernandez and Andres Nocioni are the only other 2 NBA guys on that roster, yet Real won 142-137.
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