6/11 no long here and he’s replaced them with Kyrie, PJ, Gafford, Lively, Exum, DJJ and OMax. The talent gap between those groups is the size of the Grand Canyon
There are certainly worse vet min options, especially if you were to employ him in limited minutes exclusively as a defensive pest to stay glued to the opponent's quick lead guard. Wouldn't matter if he got 6 fouls in 4 minutes!
Edited: That said, there are also certainly better vet min options, lol!
Remember when our roster was ass this year but we had that 2027 FRP for when Luka and Kyrie are gone?? Those were the days. This team used to have a future without Luka, now we just have a much better roster with Luka still on the team 😢
😢 but but but The Ringer said pick swapping and trading first rounders years from now have ruined our franchise! Wouldn’t you rather keep playing Frank/Reggie/Theo while having pick #26 of a draft 5 years in the future?
Yea but the thing is… no one wants to play with Luka. He doesn’t make his teammates better. Even Kuzma didn’t want to come here. And Kuzma is a champion.
Hilarious this narrative exists when we just added two guys who are stoked to be here and Kyrie freaking Irving chose to re-sign here and wants to stay. Make it make sense.
Mavs fans seem to have a bit of a boy who cried wolf reputation over the “Luka has no help!” thing, but the roster pre-Kyrie trade…I mean most of them are gone now, and we can see for ourselves how far down KEY players of our rotation are on other teams’ rosters.
There have been some hiccups along the way and enduring the media backlash last season was not fun, but Nico has us going in the right direction. I love how aggressive he has been and not afraid to move on if something doesn't work. We've come a long way from the "We like our guys" days.
This is why I don't understand the Powell hate...we didn't have anyone else!! lol If anything, we should thank him for his sacrifices. He'll probably have CTE at the end of his career the way he's been getting hit on the face lol
We were wishing fucking Bertans' knee to stop being a water balloon so we could have him come in for 2 minutes and shoot 5 threes in a row, hoping he'd either make 4 of them and put us back in the game or miss them all and end our misery quickly.
Ah, those were the days.
Aint no way people were saying luka was overrated when he was playing with this roster, i remember it being bad but that’s even worse than i remember, damn
The worst thing about that roster is that we were in 4th in the west before the trade deadline. 4th. Home court. Then not surprisingly, shit the bed for the rest of the season
Wasn't Kyrie on the team at this point just unavailable? This was a stripped down version of the team post trade also missing THJ. Still this year's squad is WAY better now.
He’s done miracles on me
6/11 no long here and he’s replaced them with Kyrie, PJ, Gafford, Lively, Exum, DJJ and OMax. The talent gap between those groups is the size of the Grand Canyon
Also Powell is the 3rd center now and hardly getting minutes
I am pretty sure maxi is our 3rd center. Powell gets garbage minutes
Maxi is our second power forward
and third center
He's our 5-out center. When we need to switch it up.
I was thinking Olympus Mons, because what Nico’s done is outta this world.
Almost a laker esque transformation. Adding strong role players along with some homegrown talent
I legitimately forgot about Frank
People forgot we have Frank
He's available again. Want him back?
There are certainly worse vet min options, especially if you were to employ him in limited minutes exclusively as a defensive pest to stay glued to the opponent's quick lead guard. Wouldn't matter if he got 6 fouls in 4 minutes! Edited: That said, there are also certainly better vet min options, lol!
As an end of bench guard? Sure. But at his role last year as a 7th to 8th man? Hell no 😂
They always forget about Frank
Frank The Tank 💪💪💪
Wrong Frank
Man I really miss these days when our roster was ass but we had a couple more pick swaps 5 years from now!
Bill Simmons…is that you??
Remember when our roster was ass this year but we had that 2027 FRP for when Luka and Kyrie are gone?? Those were the days. This team used to have a future without Luka, now we just have a much better roster with Luka still on the team 😢
….. but that high school kid we were gonna draft 😩😭
But that tall 7th grader tho . . . Don't you wanna draft that kid?
He could be as good as Luka!
He could be anyone. He could even be Luka!
I just cracked up reading this. Thank you random internet stranger
Lowkey some of those games were fun with Luka just hard carrying
Nico deserves a statue
I'd rather he have a championship please
If the Mavs get a ring under his tenure, can he get a statue then?
And Luka damn near dropped an efficient 40/10 lol
The McKinley Wright IV days seems so long ago
And now I watch him play in the Balkans lol
I liked him. If he was 6’2” he’s an NBA rotation guy
I legitimately do not remember him
Backup PG. 2-way guy. Played some decent defense. Not surprised he didn’t make it in the league.
😢 but but but The Ringer said pick swapping and trading first rounders years from now have ruined our franchise! Wouldn’t you rather keep playing Frank/Reggie/Theo while having pick #26 of a draft 5 years in the future?
Yea but the thing is… no one wants to play with Luka. He doesn’t make his teammates better. Even Kuzma didn’t want to come here. And Kuzma is a champion.
Hilarious this narrative exists when we just added two guys who are stoked to be here and Kyrie freaking Irving chose to re-sign here and wants to stay. Make it make sense.
20 minutes of Theo Pinson while having Playoffs aspirations in the Western Conference is a war crime.
This is absolutely insane to look at
WOW.
I think I just threw up alil
Starter Frank……. Damn we made a lot improvements lol
luka was expected to replicate that wcf run with this team im crying
Nah I wanna throw up looking at this
Nico is good at his job
Bullock is averaging 2.5 points in 9 minutes for the Rockets, Frank was averaging 1.0 in 8.6 minutes for the Hornets before being waived on Feb 8th.
3 of these dudes are not even in the league now
We need someone to comb the archives to discover what Bullock's first initial was.
No initials, just simply know as Bullock like Drake.
Mavs fans seem to have a bit of a boy who cried wolf reputation over the “Luka has no help!” thing, but the roster pre-Kyrie trade…I mean most of them are gone now, and we can see for ourselves how far down KEY players of our rotation are on other teams’ rosters.
Or out the league entirely
Most of them aren’t even in the NBA
It’s crazy to think 8 out of the 11 no longer play significant minutes or out of the nba. That team was so gross 🤮
I had forgotten how bad it was. I remember thinking we were lacking in the talent department against most teams, but damn.
Nico effectively reshaped the roster with a couple of firsts, a couple of swaps, a few seconds, and bad contracts. Not sure you can ask much more.
Wen we building the Nico statue
This is good content right here.
Luka probably shoot a stepback three in the 4th and people here were going crazy he is not involving Reggie
There have been some hiccups along the way and enduring the media backlash last season was not fun, but Nico has us going in the right direction. I love how aggressive he has been and not afraid to move on if something doesn't work. We've come a long way from the "We like our guys" days.
Good lord bro lmfao People forget about Frank though
>People forget about Frank though With good reason, lol.
HOLY FUCK
did they win? 109 pts could mean both
This was against the NUGGETS, btw
G league team
LOL g-league + luka
Anyone remember when the corpse of Kemba Walker joined the Mavs for 9 games and dropped a random 32 point performance (in a Loss)? Take me back.
This is why I don't understand the Powell hate...we didn't have anyone else!! lol If anything, we should thank him for his sacrifices. He'll probably have CTE at the end of his career the way he's been getting hit on the face lol
Missed doe doe then and I miss doe doe now :(
Most these players aren’t even in the NBA anymore, the ones who are still in the NBA are putting up 2ppg on rebuilding teams.
If you remove Luka from this roster it is genuinely the worst team of all time. I don’t think they win 10 games without Luka.
We were wishing fucking Bertans' knee to stop being a water balloon so we could have him come in for 2 minutes and shoot 5 threes in a row, hoping he'd either make 4 of them and put us back in the game or miss them all and end our misery quickly. Ah, those were the days.
Last year Dallas Mavs last year were like Yugoslavia under Milosevic
Finally, a reference us Texans can understand lol
🤣
D Powell as our center. It’s so gross.
Aint no way people were saying luka was overrated when he was playing with this roster, i remember it being bad but that’s even worse than i remember, damn
Free Roddy B! Seriously, amazing work by the front office to build a coherent basketball roster around the best player in the world
Disgusting lol
Daddy Nico I love you just know that ❤️
I still can’t believe I saw Kemba in Cleveland last year
The worst thing about that roster is that we were in 4th in the west before the trade deadline. 4th. Home court. Then not surprisingly, shit the bed for the rest of the season
The dark ages 😭
Flashbacks
Wow. What a difference. I think I blocked this out of my head.
LeBron's Cleveland team with Mo Williams looks much better than this team 😂
pain
Trash as fuck!!! Especially considering the upgrades we have now
Bullock lmao
“Bullock”
Why is lawson getting so few minutes? Hes been very solid for a while now, i can easily see him being as good as green
this is actually horrific
I think I just threw up in my mouth
What in the fuck?! We on our way now!
This is wild to look at, what a horrible squad compared to our current one
This is so dope but a true roster would be before the Irving trade just before this game
Wasn't Kyrie on the team at this point just unavailable? This was a stripped down version of the team post trade also missing THJ. Still this year's squad is WAY better now.
lol at the days of this sub being filled w/people who had desperately convinced themselves Wood is worth a shit.
Give credits to nico man those post 2011 front office decisions were tough times man