 Look it's over this season is over just punt it just move on Mavericks. It's the damage is done. Oh Yes, we'll talk about that too because they have to look a little bit into the future on that But Dallas has lost six of their last seven They do have their last three games all at home against Kings Bulls and Spurs shams as far as the mindset of this team heading into These final three games. We won't go in the offseason yet. That's coming. But what is it going in the last three games? Well, I think the Mavericks have to seriously look at whether you shut down Luca Dante and Kyrie Irving these last three games Maybe two games of the regular season. This is a team that is one game out of the play-in behind Oklahoma City Oklahoma City I believe has the tiebreaker over them sir There's there's essentially two games out of the play-in with just three, you know four games left So you have to see what happens with Utah what happens with Oklahoma City between now and Wednesday The Mavs don't play again until Wednesday at home against the Kings I'm told that the organization is seriously considering the possibility of shutting down those three guys They have a top 10 protected pick So being out of the play-in race it behooves them not to try to keep their pick and at that point You have the flexibility of having that potentially top 10 pick You have three first round picks that you can trade this offseason to go get a Star and potentially more players in the marketplace. They're gonna be one of the more active teams So you go get Kyrie Irving who's playing at an elite level you try to go get him Luca Dante some help And you have two guys and in Luca and Kyrie that have been playing through stuff Luca's dealing with a thigh injury Kyrie's been playing through planar fasciitis. So they clearly need more depth on this team You know Kyrie Irving even though he's played at an elite level most of his time in Dallas He just has now clicked so far for this Mavs team as a unit And I think you're gonna start looking at them over the next few days Look into what exactly they want to prioritize going into the offseason Yeah It's it's devastating the kind of the run that they're on right now And it's the exact opposite of what happened for the Lakers has happened for the Mavs. They mix things up They make a big trade they bring in Kyrie Irving and it has just been bad They've gotten even worse defensively. They don't have depth. They still lack size Their big guys don't give them a lot of production And this doesn't all fall on Kyrie Irving. They have to find a way to re-sign him They gave they gave up way too much to not but I'm also I can't just shut down these guys right now I I see what happens before Wednesday before they play next You know, you're a better team than Oklahoma City You know, you can hang with them New Orleans, Minnesota and a play-in you have the talent if on them I ride out this season. I don't care about the pick yet I think I have enough talent with these two guys that I just get into the playoffs Anything can happen and and they've dug themselves a huge hole But I can't with those two guys on my team just shut them down when they're still even a glimmer of hope I'm just riding out. You're about to have five or six months off Riding out happens, but man, this has been a fall from grace all year long We're talking about the Lakers and how bad and they're not gonna make the playoffs and the Mavs were a lock And now the last month they have just completely smoked it. They're dealing with injuries. They're dealing with chemistry getting guys You know comfortable with each other, but this has been a brutal stretch and absolutely And it'll be even more devastating if they don't resign Kyrie See, I find that to be very interesting because you and Choms have both now Alluded to the fact that they're just gonna sign Kyrie and keep this thing rolling Eddie I don't know. Do you run it back with both Kyrie and Luca or do you try to change this thing? I mean, I think technically they almost have to as far as their cap situation goes and If they don't use that money on him, it's not like they can spend it elsewhere in the summer They I guess they could do a sign-in trade of sorts But then you run into that situation where what is the market for Kyrie? Can you trade Kyrie for 40 million dollars of stuff coming back? I don't know that that's true I think the trade deadline told us it's kind of iffy and And and things have gotten worse since then not even with Kyrie. He's actually played fine But there's just that marker of like what does he do for us? And I think I was a great player and I think he played tremendous I think it was ridiculous last night hit a clutch shot late that layup We just showed and he can be valuable to the right team But I feel like there's gonna be a lot of team sitting there going. I don't think we're the right team So yes in some senses Dallas is essentially stuck and then it turns into what do they do around those? Two players from there It's been tough. They've lost seven or their last eight games. They've been awful defensively They gave a 129 points to the low scoring team in the league the other day a team where Jimmy Butler may or may not be trying It's it's it's a lot and they just continue to have these issues and on top of that like you know The morale on that team like the quotes that are coming out of some of these scrums are just like those guys are ready for vacation I'm with Chandler. They should not shut everybody down But I'm not gonna be shocked when Shams sends out the tweet and tells us yeah It's it's time Kyrie and Luke are going home and enjoy these rest these three games mass fans Shams you're sitting there like when it But when it comes to Kyrie Irving, they gave up two starters a first-round draft pick and they gave up Multiple second round picks for him. So like Chandler said to not bring him back I think would be so much more devastating for that organization than bringing him back I think the feeling that you would have if you if Kyrie Irving walks Let's say to a Phoenix or to a Clippers or another organization and you don't get anything back for him There's no such thing for the Mavericks as let's see how life is with no Kyrie Irving and let's see if this team is better Because at that point you literally reach rock bottom and then you're looking at Luke Like you literally have to look into rebuilding because there's no way to maximize that roster hold and that money from a financial perspective So I still believe the Mavericks first and foremost priority this offseason is bringing back Kyrie Irving on a deal And then from there you have three first-round picks You have salaries to go out in the marketplace whether you want to go get a star player whether you want to get other You know rotation type of guys they clearly need bodies in the front court on the wing So you have to try to rebuild this team around those two guys and figure out what kind of town you can get in here Luca Dodgers still under contract with a player option through 2026 So it's not like they're here with with kind of the time running out on Luca Dodgers It feels to me like and look by the way I preface all of this by saying these are two amazing players in the league But that doesn't always work just because you put them together. That's not the right formula It feels like this maybe was a mistake But now we're gonna double down on this mistake because you feel like you can't do anything else So it's a it's almost depressing if you're a maps fan But Jason kid mark Cuban especially mark Cuban right now because we know how competitive he is about his team How much pressure Chandler's going on in that front office and to be a fly on the wall I would also like to add because again Jalen Brunson would have signed for four years 55 million dollars But anyways, that's neither here nor there. How much pressure do you think they're putting on themselves? There's a lot of pressure and it definitely hasn't gone obviously the way that they expected it They thought this is going to turn around. They were so excited They thought this made them one of the best teams in the conference if not the league and it just hasn't and it hasn't worked and again It's not Kyrie Irving. It's not look at all. It's collectively this team's just not working. They don't have defense They don't have toughness they need they have so many holes where the talent of Luca and Kyrie is not even able to carry them And like we just touched on and you have to resign him if they don't and this is just a three month rental And you gave away two starters and all those pigs It's one of the worst trades ever if they don't resign him So I don't care if it's not if it hasn't gone as planned I don't care if it if you're gonna not make the playoffs you have two generational talents And that's attractive to free agents this summer. That's attractive Wanting to make a move and come join those two guys and They're gonna forget about this month. They're gonna forget come this summer one of the they sign a third guy We're then talking about how good the Mavs are next year and they can't be that without Resigning Kyrie Irving and losing all that stuff. So this it hasn't gone as it hasn't gone as planned But yeah, they have to double down. They have to resign him or this is brutal Wow, what a what a weird circumstance to put themselves in