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The Dallas Mavericks are off to a disappointing start to the 2020-2021 season. For a team that had aspirations of entering the upper echelon of the Western Conference, they now find themselves in tenth place, and that is after a stretch where the Mavs won five of seven.
Before that run, the Mavericks were in the doghouse of the West, ranking as low as 14th in early February. The natural thing to do is to overreact, and that is the intent of this article.