 What's the word y'all? The Dallas Mavericks just lost back-to-back games to the Charlotte Hornets. And the Charlotte Hornets, of course, don't have Lamello Ball, Terry Rogier, Kelly Ubre. I mean, you can argue even if they did have all of those three players a loss like this two times in a row was unexcusable, inexcusable. And they still did it. And man, oh man, the Dallas Mavericks was from a team that people were super excited about going to the season to a team that's on the outside looking in. And I do want to express how bad it is to have a guy of Luca Dancers' talent on your roster and be on the outside looking in. As of right now, the way the NBA goes, two-thirds of the teams are in. You have Luca Dancers, one of the best players in all of basketball, and you are on the outside after doing your version of buying at the deadline. Now, the NBA is ever-evolving. They got seven games left this season, and they're only one game out from being in. 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And best believe Kenny Beachman is gonna be playing some prize picks. So hit the link in the description down at the prize picks app and use code Kenny so they can match your deposit up to $100. All right, all right, all right. There are so many places we can start off with, but I think it boils down to this off season. I think we had to start this off in the off season, right? Because this off season was an eventful one for the Dallas Mavericks. Remember, this is a team that made the conference finals last season. And if they missed the playoffs completely, they'll be one of three teams, I think I read, since the 80s, to go from a conference finalist to missing the playoffs completely. And the other teams that did that either had like a major injury or a major trade in the off season where they broke some things down. The Dallas Mavericks, yeah, they did have a major trade, but it was for the buy it. So this off season was super important. Luca Dodge was there and a fuel to the fire. We are here, we're ready to make some noise. And I look at that run for them, the conference finals run, similarly to the one that the Portland Trollblades put together a few years ago or the different nuggets put together in the bubble. We're like, these are teams that of course had a lot of talent, but I didn't really see them as a team that was really a contender, but they made it all the way to the conference finals because they had a really good run. Even going into the season, if you go look at my preseason videos, I was telling y'all that I would be very hesitant to say that the Dallas Mavericks are gonna be back in contention or close in contention because I didn't like their roster. But part of that was losing Jaylen Brunson. Now I don't think many people saw Jaylen Brunson to blossom into the player he is right now where though he was not an all star, he's as close to an all star as you could be without being an all star. And once all NBA comes around, he's gonna be on some, he probably won't make the whole team, but some all NBA balance. I don't think a lot of people expected that, but I know we all watched them in the playoffs last season, Luca Dodge was injured and just saw how good Jaylen Brunson can be. Now you might have saw the sample size too little when he is showing that, boom! If I get the minutes and the opportunity, I could be like that. And well they didn't do anything to supplement that. This off season they traded a late first round pick for Christian Wood who was already in his career, had a lot of conversations around the idea. And I'm just gonna put this quotation marks because I don't even know if I subscribe to this idea of empty sets, empty calories big where he can score a lot of points but he's given up a lot on the other side. And you saw throughout the course of the season, he went from a guy that had some trust from Jason Kidd to almost no trust to Jason Kidd to right now, I don't even know where he stands. Because in this game that we watched against a Charlotte Hornets, unfortunately for the Dallas Mavericks, it was the only NBA game on, of course there's some March Madness stuff going on, but it was the only NBA game on that early. So a lot of people tuned in and they got dominated in the paint. If you're Jason Kidd who has got his reputation as a coach to being a defensive coach, I mean that anchor that the preventing the easiest shot of basketball is kind of important to him. And that's why Christian Woods minutes have been fluctuating all season long. Anyway, there are a couple of games over 500 and they carry over across to the trade and they threw their name into the hat and they ended up a carry over, boom. Now we got one of the most talented backcourts in all the basketball, arguably the most talented backcourt in all the basketball. And I think they're the three and eight together. It hasn't looked good. Yep, it hasn't looked good at all. We're in this game against these Charlotte, so remember this, against these Charlotte Hornets, Luca put up 40 points in 40 minutes and they lost. They had a couple of runs to make it interesting, but I think they were down by like 20 plus points at one point this game. And I think the last game that they lost to them a couple of days before that, the Charlotte Hornets won the second day of a back to back. Like the Hornets are one of the worst teams of basketball by design. They're trying to do what they could do to get the first overall pick to help them end low ball once he comes back from his injury. They're bad on purpose. They're trying to lose. And you lost two games in a matter of three, four days to them. And then we get these interviews, these post-game interviews with Luca Sandy's dealing with stuff off the court that's kind of taking the enjoyment away from the stuff that's going on the court and they're just losing games. Overall, the state of the Dallas Mavericks is extremely bad. They lost the game to the Golden State Warriors and Mark Cuban is gonna file that report to try to get it turned around because of the thing with the ref, whatever, whatever, question authority. You were sure to say question authority. You need to question the team building over there. I mean, Mr. Cuban, because when we look back on the carry-urban trade, the main thing everybody was saying, I don't know how they're gonna stop nobody. I just don't know how they're gonna stop people. And if you have a game like tonight where you can't stop people and you don't get any production outside of anybody not named Lucadontas, you have a 0% chance of winning games. In the previous year, their identity was, hey, we are a top five defense. We might not feel like it because we got Lucadontas carrying him, but we were a top five defense last season, y'all. All of that is gone. And there are a identity-less team right now with seven games left in the season. Not a place you really wanna be. Even if they do end up making the play-in, which again, when you have Lucadontas carry-urban, I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say you can win a couple of the last seven games while some of the other teams around you are falling and say that you make the play-in. Many of you make the play-in. There's obviously a ceiling on what's going on. And I don't know, come off-season, what you do to make this team better. And that is the scariest part of it all because you have Lucadontas, who's one of the best players of basketball, at the young age of 23, I'm just gonna say I'm not Googling it. And you don't have a legit way to make it all better. Think about carry-urban, you, because you think to yourself, okay, the parent only had 17 games to get it working and they were bad in that 17, but if they had a full off-season to ramp it up, they're gonna be good next season. Okay, go ahead, get carry-urban that money. What else are we doing? How are you gonna get people that's gonna stay in front of their defender? It's something, I don't envy the person they gotta make decisions. I'm glad it's not me. Maybe I shouldn't be glad it's not me. I think those people make a lot of money. And even if the lifespan of that job is not super long, unless you've got a guaranteed contract. I don't know, there's so many more things that can be said about this. I'm just gonna wait and see. Let me look at what the remainder of the schedule looked like. I know it's seven games, but according to Take-A-Thon, the Dallas Mavericks have the 17th-hardest schedule left in basketball. They have games against the Bulls, the Hawks, the Pacers, and the Spurs, but they also have games against the 76ers and the Kings. And remember, the Dallas Mavericks don't stock anybody, your nose is two of the top offenses in basketball, so good luck. What else is going on around the league? LeBron James came back. I got the tweet, like everybody else, the post-notice saying that LeBron James is upgraded from doubtful to questionable. The later term from questionable to game time decision. Anyone from game time decision, he coming off the bench, y'all. Against my Bulls. The Bulls are in LA on the West Coast road trip and LeBron James is coming back. And I'm like, man, my Bulls are finally playing good basketball at the 50-plus games of them being bad. They're finally hitting a little stride right now. LeBron will come back and ruin all of that. He did. The Bulls took care of business. I don't know why it took 50-plus games for the Bulls to make it make sense. It legitimately, like the only other thing I could think of is that it is the Patrick Beverly effect. And I didn't expect the guy that averaged just seven points on the year to have so much of an impact in the locker room. He told Zach Levine, I just want you to shoot the ball. And Zach Levine is averaging 30 points per game on 50-40-90 since Patrick Beverly told him to do that. You know what I'm saying? The team has already been a good defense all season long, but now we're one of the better ones. I think we were seven before Patrick Beverly got there. Last time I checked, we were number five. And if the office could come around like today where they were hitting shots, they're a competent NBA team. And it took 50-plus games, 60-plus games to get here. It makes no sense. I was disappointed. I mean, Anthony Davis today, I would be disappointed Anthony Davis. I was a Lakers fan because Blusevich gets ejected on some BS, I'm just gonna say that. And somehow Anthony Davis still ends up with nine total field goal attempts when he's gonna be guarded by Derek Jones Jr., who though he seemed like he's a four, he's six-five. Like he's bouncy as all heck, but he's only six-five. He's the same height as Alex Caruso, Anthony. I ain't complaining though. It was against my team that he ain't do nothing. So I'll take that. But you want Anthony Davis to be way more aggressive when you see that the starting center of the opposing team gets ejected, especially since the Bulls don't have another center outside of Drummond. We released Tony Bradley. Like it's Drummond or it's Derek Jones Jr. And it worked. Shout out to the Bulls. The longest rolled win streak for the Bulls since Derek Rose's MVP season, which is crazy to really think about. I got a whole video coming out about the Churro Blazers probably tomorrow. So be tuned into that one. It got some positives and some negatives about this season. Obviously with Damian Lillard basically being shut down as of right now. I got some thoughts that's going in my head. The Minnesota Timberwolves, y'all, went to chase center. Cause I always be getting them mixed up. Went to chase center and got a win. Carthage's house is coming back cause it looked pretty solid, man. Both games that they won. Big free throws and then big three in transition. One of those, wait, wait, wait. Oh, you crazy mo for, you hit the shot. One of those moments for Carnegie Towns. So I'm just excited for them because they played together. Finally their big three played together for the first time since November. And though they went almost 10 minutes without a field goal, the defense was good enough against the Warriors to prevent them from getting a hundred points, which you'll take. Now of course you want the office to look a lot better but you'll take a win like this this late in the season for sure. So with everything that happened today, the 10 Bulls are now the seventh seed on your half game away from the Warriors who they just beat. I don't know why I don't be showing you on my screen when I'm looking. So the Clippers play against the Bulls in a couple of days. Of course without Paul George, we'll see what happens there. The Suns were kind of sputtering and then they ended up winning the game there. One, two, three feels kind of set. Everything else is not okay. Seen one a game against the Trailblazers. So they have a one game difference between them and the Dallas Mavericks. Again, it's just so weird to see the Dallas Mavericks on this part of the, like on this part is crazy, man. Pelicans have been playing some really good ball. And this is after I was seeing that they had went through the stretch where they were looking like the worst team of basketball and they're allowing Brandon Ingram to be more of a facilitator and be more of a one. And a lot of that has been helping out. I mean, he had like a nine in this game, a 30 point triple double with 10 assists and 10 rebounds with no turnovers in the game after that was the Trey Murphy 10 plus three game. So like they putting it together right now which is crucial because they felt like a team the way they were playing two and a half weeks ago where they were going to be one of the teams that was going to be on the outside. And now they're saying Zion Williamson is starting to ramp up and he might be able to come back in a couple of weeks. I'm just saying the Pelicans might be able to make some noise again. Only time will tell though. You never really can predict these things in the NBA and that's why we love it.