The Dallas Mavericks are better. To be fair, that’s not a very high bar to clear after watching most of the players around Luka Doncic fall apart in the seven game loss to the Clippers a few months ago, but they’re better. With free agency slowing down and most of the pieces off the board, it feels like the right time to discuss what the Mavericks did and what it means.
Let’s start with meaning first. It’s likely long past due to adjust the expectations for free agency and retarget the criticism of the Mavericks roster building strategy.