GET UP | Mavs are seen as a serious threat in West if blockbuster deal sends LeBron to Dallas – Perk

GET UP | Mavs are seen as a serious threat in West if blockbuster deal sends LeBron to Dallas – Perk

up and Victor Wimanyama is having quite a summer uh we we see videos of him all over the place and here he is mixing in a little soccer uh in Tokyo you like Victor Woman’s off season like Mad Libs like you just throw out like a different place or different thing he’s doing soccer games with random people in Sure why not
this is pretty good though
i mean it looks pretty good to me he could go play in the Club World Cup
yeah right in that that top right corner there wendy what what did you did you know this about Victor that he could play soccer he could bend it like Beckham
i did he’s actually tremendous at headers from the corner i think he’d be unstoppable
brian discovered Victor Webbyama he knows everything
that’s right yeah he’s a Webyama guy headers from the corner now it’s every video of Webyama with with normalsized people it’s like AI generated it and made a mistake like it’s bizarre but yeah pretty awesome anyway hey Bobby Marks you want to play a little game of NBA fact or fiction whether you do or not we’re going to the Bucks have done enough to convince Giannis to stay fact or fiction
i’m going to say fact Dan i look at Bobby Poris Torian Prince uh Gary Trent Jr um Kevin Porter Jr the band is back for another year there’s still another move out there can they go out and get a center to fill that void but I do look at what they’ve been able to do and kind of bring this group together as fact that keeps Giannis happy all right and if I said the Lakers have had the worst off season of anyone in the NBA fact or fiction i’m going to say fiction i’m going to give the Lakers a pass right now because I know there’s still work to do we’re only one day into uh into the off season here i look at what New Orleans has been able to do and I know they’ve been a punching bag here but to to move up 10 spots and then for center and then sign Kavan Looney to a two-year $16 million contract I’m going to put them in that category
all right one more the Dallas Mavericks have had the best off season in the NBA is that factor
well I’m going to you I’m I’m going to use a new word I don’t think even belongs faction right we’re going to go kind of hedge my bet there as far as where Dallas is i think Houston for me but I like what Dallas has done cooper flag of course uh D’Angelo Russell getting him there they are a threat in the Western Conference but they got to get Kyrie Irving back healthy there’s two possible answers to fact or fiction is fact or fiction bobby Marks makes his own great
and you said you basically said fiction cuz you said it’s actually Houston but but it’s all right we’ll go with we’ll let you go with faction uh you’re you’re getting up early
i’m going on four hours sleep Dave i’m going on four hours sleep
he was he was on the 6:00 call like he’s a machine right now so we’ll give we’ll give Bobby uh a break but when when you look at what the Mavericks are up to I mean it feels like it’s going a lot better for them than it’s going for the the team that they traded Luca Donic to uh during the season wendy are we at a point where it’s time to ask like did the Mavs maybe win that trade
no no i mean the Lakers ended up winning 50 games they obviously had a disappointing uh crash in the first round um they they their outlook they have two star players their outlook this year is significantly better than Dallas is i I do think what Dallas is trying to do which is to try to build a deep team that’s based on defense is the path forward i I I like you know in theory the way they’re structured um you know and getting Cooper Flag is transformational i mean Cooper Flag potentially is a is a generational player we don’t know for sure but everything points to that being the case and you know when they made the trade Cooper Flag was not in their thinking whatsoever so the Mavericks are in a pretty good-looking position here over the next few years but saying that that’s a result of them winning the trade I would I would not agree with that um you know the big thing for Dallas is getting Kyrie healthy um their pos their guard play is going to really depend on that and by the way we have come very far in recovery from ACL injuries i have no doubt that he’s going to come back and be a key piece for them but they’re going to start the season with D’Angelo Russell as their starting point guard and you know D’Angel Russell’s output has been you know shaky you know he’s basically been a journeyman for a reason so um if I was a Mavericks fan I would be very excited about Cooper Flag i would be very excited about the defense that my team was building but I would not claim any sort of victory in losing Luca Donuch and I don’t think many Mavericks fans would
i would say no Mavericks fans would the uh the NBA is about getting stars and Luca Don is one of the five best players on the planet pretty easily and he’s not on the Mavericks anymore and the idea that because they got extraordinarily lucky and got Cooper flag in the lottery although Nico Harrison seemed the general manager of the Mavericks seems to keep indicating that this is part of the grand plan that you know I think he said the other day that the fans are starting to see the vision for what they’re doing in Dallas i guess the vision was to have a 1.8% chance
and win the lottery
and win the lottery and then you have Cooper Flag on your team but no I Yes the Mavericks have a decent amount of talent we’ll see what happens with Kyrie Irving if he can come back healthy they could be an interesting factor in the Western Conference but they should still have Luca Dod
we have D wood here because he’s the voice of the Laker fan uh here on our program when you look at this from the Lakers end everything that’s going on in Dallas obviously they got lucky with the lottery but I mean in terms of of the Lakers how do you feel like I mean are you disappointed in how things have shaken out since they made that deal
i mean listen you know I’m not disappointed in in trading for one of the top five
players would you like would you like to send Luca Dodgers back to Dallas
absolutely like absolutely not like when I look at when I look at the Lakers I think we’ve taken a step backwards
we’ve taken a step backwards i look at the teams in the West that’s that’s gotten better okc is OKC and they still got a bevy of of you know assets that they can that that they can use to improve their team the Houston Rockets have gotten better i think the the Dallas Mavericks has gotten better you know through the Coop you know Cooper drafting Cooper flag you know the Los Angeles Clippers have gotten better and here we are the Los Angeles Lakers we’re just we would be just lucky to get the number three seed that we got in this past postseason so I think we’re slipping back and not only that but it just feels you know ominous to me that this is pro this might this probably going to be LeBron’s last year with the timeline that the Lakers are on right now i don’t see the Lakers win winning anything this year i I’m just not in a great place as a Lakers fan
yeah it it seems like it’s We’ll see what else happens the rest of the offseason but it does feel windy like their options are running out you want to put a final word on this for us
well I think what they’re probably going to end up doing is overpaying in a trade here for for a player to be their starting center and you know that’s not the end of the world depending on the parameters of it and Luca Donuch is is an elite player who was injured for most of last season it was his worst of his last five seasons you you haven’t if you’re a Laker fan you haven’t even really seen the real Luca Donuch yet lebron is coming off of a second team allNBA season he’s still arguably a top 15 player in the league go find me two team a team out there with two top 15 players the Lakers are not desperate whatsoever they just had an ownership change that is going to potentially totally change the the infrastructure in their organization i am not going to sit here and have a bad feeling about the Lakers for one second i will tell you they’re not doing a great job of filling out their roster on July 1st but let’s see where they are in July 10th but this pity party is ridiculous i’m I’m not going to waste any time with it
who’s having a pity party all right hey Dan Dan Dan I would real Dan I would say this it’s It’s okay to say that the Lakers won the trade but Dallas is in a better position right now i think you can go that way
fair enough so faction it is uh the NBA created [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Secret

GET UP | Mavs are seen as a serious threat in West if blockbuster deal sends LeBron to Dallas – Perk