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Mavs Outsider Roundtable: Are The Mavs Overachieving?

Chuck Perry

Yes.Three principle reasons

1. Easy schedule – Depending on which factors you take into account, Dallas has faced either the easiest or second-easiest schedule in the league. This has allowed the new pieces to gel in Carlisle’s system and lessened the demand on Dirk.

2. Dirk GOATwitski – What he’s doing this season, hitting almost .50/.50/.90 is insane at his age, hell its insane at any age. Reasonable people can doubt that he’ll be able to sustain it, but what he’s doing now is utterly ridiculous.

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