There’s been one prevailing thought bouncing around my head as I watched the Mavericks take on two championship contenders back-to-back, winning one and narrowly losing another.
This team is close.
Maybe that’s a dumb thought, considering the Mavericks are currently seventh, trying to scrape and claw out of a play-in tournament spot with less than 20 games remaining. The Mavericks are only one game above .500 and have flittered with that .500 record for most of the season. The defense is once again below league average, now 23rd after a recent stretch of games where the Mavericks have been unable to stop teams from parading to the rim for an endless supply of easy baskets.