Reviewing and reliving the 2021-22 season for the Dallas Mavericks

The 2021-22 season for the Dallas Mavericks ended up being an entire lot of enjoyable. It wasn’t ALWAYS enjoyable, and in reality, it began out very unusually. With Luka Doncic trying like the ultimate boss in a online game within the Olympics, all of us anticipated him to indicate up in form and able to mow down groups. He didn’t, and when the Mavericks performed poor to mediocre basketball to begin the yr, issues felt dicey.

Then COVID hit the Mavericks, together with a lingering Luka Doncic ankle damage. It wasn’t enjoyable or attention-grabbing to observe Dallas Mavericks basketball for a major chunk of December. Issues bottomed out in a late December loss to the Sacramento Kings. Then, issues rotated. After 2022 turned over the Mavericks would solely lose 12 extra instances within the common season.

When Tim Hardaway suffered what would ultimately be a season-ending damage, the Mavericks made strikes to interchange his scoring punch with that of Spencer Dinwiddie they usually did so by buying and selling away what was as soon as thought-about a cornerstone piece in Kristaps Porzingis. Whereas all of us initially noticed it as a step again, the Mavericks stored on rolling.

They rolled on and on. And, regardless of a calf damage to Luka Doncic within the remaining common season recreation, the Mavericks rolled straight via the Jazz, then the Suns, and had been ultimately stopped by the Golden State Warriors within the Convention finals.

It was a beautiful, bizarre, extraordinarily entertaining season. Contemplating our workers considerably wished to quick ahead to the playoffs, I don’t assume I might think about a extra attention-grabbing, different season wherein the Mavericks proceeded alongside the trail to enchancment. Progress just isn’t a straight line, however as soon as Dallas discovered their stride they actually went for it.

Josh Bowe and I focus on all of this and extra within the newest episode of Mavs Moneyball After Darkish. Although I normally have a tendency so as to add the most recent related present to recreation posts, I haven’t been as constant about making posts for our podcasts. Whereas I’d hope all of you’d subscribe, possibly common listening is your factor, which I completely get. You may click on the Apple podcasts embed above (Spotify is being unusual in the meanwhile) or click on beneath on any of the hyperlinks to get taken to your favourite participant. I’ll in all probability be doing extra posts like this; we’ve finished tons of of podcasts this season.

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