The Mavs Should ONLY ENVY These Five Teams’ Situations | Dallas Mavericks Podcast

The Mavs Should ONLY ENVY These Five Teams’ Situations | Dallas Mavericks Podcast

On today’s show, there’s at least four teams that I would trade places with if I was the Dallas Mavericks. Which ones are those? And we’ll answer more of your questions today. It’s like a mask. Stop it. Stop. The number one pick will go to the Dallas Mavericks. Cooper flag will fly in Dallas. All of you are locked on M. Your daily Mavericks podcast. Part of the locked on podcast network. Your team every day. I’m going to get a city life back and welcome. You are locked on to the Dallas Mavericks, your team every day. My name is Nick Angstead, medium member covering the Mavs for 10 years. Thanks for being an everyday making lockedown maps your first listen. Today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, use the code locked on NBA for $20 off your first purchase. Joining me as always, my co-host, media member, cover the map for 10 years right alongside me, the Taylor Swift son, the One More Thing King. What you got for me, Isaac Harris? Yeah, super excited to see what the Taylor Swift announcement is. Um, maybe it’s like Travis is retiring. Um, yeah, it could be they’re moving to, you know, she’s going back to New York or, you know, she’s moving to Kansas City or I don’t know what you uh I was hearing all the announcements today and all the like the I love I get all the Taylor Swift like like uh push notifications in investigative stuff like every tweet on my timeline is like all these people like trying to figure out if that’s the if that’s who it was on the podcast. Man, we have a different algorithm. And as I was going through it today, I looked down and I was wearing an orange shirt. She got shaved. She She got me. She got sh of it subconsciously. I saw that tweet and I thought you were talking about the WNBA like something happened. Today’s episode, we’re going to break down Taylor Swift. Is it the 12th album? Is it the Arrows documentary? What What is it? We’re going to answer your questions from the uh mailbag. we put out a question and asked you you to send in your questions to our text line. You can go to joinsubtex.com/lockdommabs or text the number 2146438637 and get be part of our text line group and you can ask any question and I answer as many of them as I can. It’s sent it back in a mailbag document and then we’re going to answer a bunch of them today including we’re going to talk about what the best and worst outcome of the season is going to be. Who averages more points the Angel Russell or Cooper flag? A bunch of other questions like that but let’s start with this one. Isaac Harris. I love this one from Mason. How many teams would you rather swap situations with if you were the Dallas Mavericks? And I started to go through this and honestly there was not that many. There was four where I was like, “All right, I would definitely switch positions with this team.” And you’re talking about age of players. You’re talking about the the players that they have, the timeline that they’re on, every like everything considering. I even included like market size and different different things like that. Front office and owner. Did you Sure. Yeah. all that stuff. Like you I would think about swapping and it it made me think like there’s a couple we’ll go through the ones that we would but it made me think when I realized I only had four solid ones and I thought man the Mavs are actually set up pretty well. They’ve got Cooper flag and as I went through it most of the time I said would I rather have Cooper flag or would I rather have Aman Thompson and the Rockets hole situation right like would I rather have would I rather have Cooper flag or Kade Cunningham and the Pistons? Like I just started going through it all and the answer would I rather have Cooper flag came up yes for me more often than not and I think that’s what I came away with after doing this. Yeah, that was my question back for you was how how many more teams would you have had if they didn’t win the top pick in the lottery? Oh, a bunch a bunch more. Yeah, cuz I mean I was the same way. I mean that’s what I you started going down through them. I’m like, “Oh, man.” You know, kind of like how, you know, some of the picks. I was looking at doing some research on the picks. I was, you know, looking at some of their long-term contracts on top of like their cornerstone piece. And then it just came down to like would I rather have that flexibility and a couple of those young guys on this team or would I rather have the stud flag because it’s hard to find like a guy like that. And uh yeah, I’m with you. I had four that I was I think I’m pretty confident in and then at like a half one with a question mark which is hilarious cuz we didn’t tell each other what we were doing and he’s and I said I said before we hit record I was like how many do you have like just give me a number and you went four and a half and I legitimately have four and one with a question mark next to it. I just want I feel like we’re going to we’re going to differ on the fourth one for sure. I think we’re going to differ on a couple of these. Um really the Thunder for sure is one. Three of them I was very confident in. Thunder for sure is one. Right. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Spurs. Spurs another one. 100%. Yeah. Nuggets was another one. I had them as my fourth team, but I didn’t think you were going to have him. I got the I’ll take I’ll take the best player. I’ll take I’ll take best player in the world. Still in his prime right now, and I’ll take their starting lineup and all that. Yeah, I was going to say, let’s pause on them for a second because I feel like some people So, Joic is 30 and I feel like some people might push back on the the Denver one. If you look at it and say, “All right, Jokic at 30 versus Cooper Flag at 18.” Um, athleticism is really going to start going after a while here. And it’s he’s he really relies on that, but that’s the thing. It’s like, you know, yeah, you can look at Denver and it they’re like books isn’t like crazy to me. Um, especially after get, you know, swapping MPJ for Cam Johnson. And so it just came it just comes down for me of like kind of what you were joking about, but like I think Jokic if you think he’s going to keep playing until he’s like a a typical player uh or he you know if you think he’s going to pull Barry Sanders and retired like next year. Uh but if you let’s just assume that he plays throughout majority of his 30s, he’s still going to be really dominant. I mean he’s the best player in the world right now. So I’m with you. I I take Denver cuz I I think that your goal is to win a title and you know what Jokic is right now. He’s one of the best big man to ever play the game. So to have him to have this realistic shot for the next five to six, seven years maybe. Um you can’t really pass that up. It’s hard. The Mavs are hoping that they can put everything together next year, the year after that and build up to what the Nuggets already have. You know what I mean? And then and then like maybe three or four years after that, Cooper flag building up his team to get to that point then, you know? So like they already and the Nuggets already have it right now. They they went toe-to-toe with that Thunder team. Like I think that matters. Um Spurs and OKC, you didn’t even think about it. It was just like was it was automatic for me. I was like I’d rather have Weama and that just the insane group of young players like that young core is just wild. Like what if Dylan Harper is like an allNBA player too, right? like all I mean Wim is what just three years older than Cooper? Yeah. Or whatever it is. I mean and then Yeah. All the stuff. I mean they got picks, they got Yeah. I mean I think it’s just like them versus OKC of like which situation would you rather have in the league. Um no OKC I mean everybody knows the whole conversation with that. They have the picks on top of a plethora of young talent. So my third one I was surprised how much I I was surprised that I thought that this was a lock for me. Denver. No, my third one. Oh, okay. Yeah, I have I have one more as a lock. I would take the Cavs situation. Whoa. I think I consider the Cavs. I think they just they just won like 60some games. They’ve got Eban Mobley who I think can take another leap forward. Daryus Garland I think do like Moy a lot. Daryus Garland can get a little bit better too. They’ve got a really good situation. And you know what? Honestly, when I started thinking about it, I was like, they’re in the East and the East is going to be really easy next year or it’s going to be much weaker than it was this past year and even in years past. And I was like, you know what? I think I would rather have the Cap situation than I would have the Mavs because of Evan Mobley. You know, that that’s a talent that’s going to be really good and is young still and can get a ton better. And you’re in the East. I need to think about it more. What if what if Cooper Flag is becomes as good as Evan Mobley? That would be a win, I think. And Evo is already that good. Yeah. I guess I’m kind of like burned a little bit by, hey, we’ve kind of seen this a little bit and it hasn’t worked with the back court of Mitchell and Garland. It hasn’t worked on the on the big stage yet, right? Um you had injuries and stuff like that, but yeah, it hasn’t yet. That’s true. Yeah, that’s the only thing I guess that’s cuz I do like Mobly a lot. That’s the only thing that holds me back some. I would need to look at their like pick situation. I guess you’re right. I guess I just overlooked them. Honestly, if they weren’t in the East, if if this was a West team, like considering everything else, I would not take them. But because they’re in the East, that was the tiebreaker for me. I was like, “Yep, give me that situ give me that situation.” Okay. Well, you’re gonna laugh at my They’re gonna be the best team in the East for sure. Oh, they will. Well, well, dang. You’re really going to laugh at me at my fourth one then. The Pelicans. I would really laugh at you if it was the Pelicans. No, I mean, wait, my fourth one’s going to be a longer conversation now. Um, I’ll tell you my half one. Oh, the half one for me is a longer conversation. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. My fourth one is the Lakers. That was my half one. Okay. I mean, yeah. I just look at it and not only Yeah. Luca’s 26. He’s, you know what, top three, top four, top five player, however you want to, you know, do that in a league. I am third on my locked on top 100. Uh, really? Yeah. Um, but it’s just like you you look at I think I I wrapped everything into that one of the situation uh the market being the Lakers. It feels like after this Swan song, everybody praise LeBron year. It feels like they’re going to be able to reset the deck and like I mean look at their contracts. Look at they actually have some picks and stuff, but it looks like they’re going to have a shot here post LeBron retirement season to really I mean to have the s like Los Angeles the Lakers franchise a coach and JJ Reic that’s I mean I hate all this okay trust me I hate saying all this to say like all right now now we can like really reset and rebuild around an MVP candidate that can you know we know everything Aluca can do So, I think that right there for me, it wasn’t even like a debate. I I honestly wrote them down like third. I was like, “Yeah, swap them out.” They don’t really have any like big long-term bad contracts. Um, yeah, it’s just mainly like, “Hey, they can clear the deck, still have some picks, and be in LA with an MVP candidate that’s 26.” It’s tough to beat long term. Tough to beat for sure. That was one where I was like, I’m I’m pretty sure I would take this situation. Coming up, let’s talk about why I maybe wouldn’t. And then Isaac’s had another situation he would take over the Maverick situation. I had a half one. A half one. We’ll talk about his half one. We’ll talk about his half coming up. [Music] Today’s episode. Get out of here. Get Get off this. Get off this screen. Hold on. Get out of here with your half. Today’s episode Today’s episode of Lock Maps brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app, create an account, use the code lock. NBA to go to any kind of concert. 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A lot of people ask us, “How do I get on there?” Well, you can just do that. Click the link in the description and uh you can be part of that. Help support the show. And we get questions like this one from Mason. How many teams would you rather switch situations with? And we’ve named OKC, the Spurs, the Cavs, the Nuggets, the Lakers. Those were the ones that that I came up with that I would switch situations with. And uh the Lakers though, I had as a half one. This LeBron thing, I don’t know how it’s going to end. And like, does it matter? I mean, it might not because it’s the Lakers. It always We’re talking about moving forward as a franchise. I mean, like I know it always seems like they fall backwards into a situation. But it has seemed like Pelinka has taken some time to like move on from something and then the like the LeBron a like the end of LeBron AD run until he got bailed out by this Luca trade was like, oh my god, what are they like what are they doing over there? Are they wasting the end of LeBron’s career basically? And I think can can like drag his feet on some stuff and I don’t know that I would take that situation. Uh I don’t know. I don’t. So, you don’t like the Aton signing? I It’s fine for It’s fine for them, but I don’t think it’s like a championship move for them or the Marcus Smart one. I don’t know if Marcus Martin can even play anymore. And so, we’ll see. And anyone with a firm opinion about Marcus Smart right now, good or bad, then I’m like, come on. They’re also going to give Austin Reeves like 30 million a year to become the running mate next to Luca. So, building around a Luca Austin Reeves lineup is like not going to be the easiest to me. You’ve got to have trading. You’ve got to have some good, you know, defenders around around them for sure. And u just for the sake of other questions, I’ll just my half one was Houston. I like halfway thought about it. Thought about that. Um, you know, just because obviously they have some younger pieces. I actually like the Jabari Smith extension. Um, they’re they got a couple really good picks. I’m not a I’m not a big person when it comes to like, hey, that pick is awesome cuz picks can change so much. Um, but they do have some Phoenix ones that’s in the near future after this Phoenix, you know, I don’t know, retooling and stuff that could be good picks. Um, that was very generous of you to call Phoenix’s thing a retooling. Uh I think this this question it could very like it could change very fast from a question mark to a guarantee if Amen takes another step. Um cuz you know it’s like Amen Shenun uh Jabari Smith it’s like these are good young Tari Een good young players but any of them I think there’s a reason why they went out and got Kevin Durant to be like their guy their alpha guy. So that’s the reason I I think I’d still lean Dallas, but overall collection of young talent that obviously Houston has that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they’re better team than the Mavs right now. Like let’s be clear about that. We’re talking about situation for now going into the future. And I would take building around Cooper Flag over building around Ahmed Thompson, Shingun and like they could trade for Giannis in like six months and everything’s so then maybe you just answered your question just now that you would rather have their situation because they could they could they have the stuff to do that. It is crazy thing about you have somebody like Giannis and neither one of us even thought about the Bucks because the Bucks situation just like didn’t even didn’t even consider them. Just crossed them off. I know. And it’s just I thought about Boston for a quick second because when Tatum comes back like I don’t mess with Achilles, man. Achilles are not they’re not like ACL’s. I mean, we we just saw Klay Thompson like It’s true. Yeah, it’s true. I thought about the Pistons with Kate Cunningham in the East building on them. Yeah, I like Kade a lot. It’s also Detroit. I mean, we don’t we just don’t see Dallas has better option. Well, I thought about the Knicks for the same reason because they got Brunson. They have a lot of talent there. It’s in they’re in the East, you know, Madison Square Garden, they’re the Knicks, all that. I did also think about the Timberwolves for a second cuz Anthony Edwards, they’ve been commerce finals. For as long as it took me to load their spo track page to see their contracts, that’s how long it took me to say I’m out. Do you not like the Nas one? Nas Randle Gobear. I’m sorry. Like interesting. Uh, I was listening to slightly today and he he went through and said that he thought that the Nause contract was one of the more overrated moves of the offseason. It’s a little overrated. Yeah, I think Nas I love Nas, but I think he’s a little bit overrated by people. Yeah. And they they’re going to have a weird guard problem if Mike Connley takes another step back this year. Yes, they will got to figure something out. Dillingham is pretty small. There you go, Mason. We fully answered your we job, Mason. Good question. Nick from Kentucky and Jacob and several others asked this kind of question. What’s the best possible outcome of the season and the worst possible outcome? Let’s start with the best possible. Give me the give me the elevator pitch for the best possible outcome for this Mavericks team. Yeah, I mean it starts with Anthony Davis. I think he plays 6570 games. I’m going to be deja vu from a podcast the other day, but um Kyrie Irving, yeah, comes back around trade deadline. Uh let’s say March, gives you a final 25 30 games of the season. Cooper flag is like the runaway for rookie of the year and just ahead of schedule as far as acclimating to the NBA. Um I think those are the three main ones and then that ultimately means you get into the playoffs and you know you make it to like Western Conference Finals. I I think that is that is a huge you know that’s the best possible outcome. I think that’s the ceiling. I think I don’t think they can make a finals. Yeah. Yeah, I mean we can go through each each individual player and DLO shoots this or unless something happens to the Thunder like honestly that’s I think that Thunder team or or or the Nuggets like I don’t think they’re beating either of those teams. Yeah, I mean I think it’s hard to see like there’s too many new pieces for Dallas right now. We haven’t seen AD together, you know, with with this crew very much. We’re not going to see AD and Kyrie together until hopefully this year in in like March. But you see the vision though. I do. I see the vision. Fortune favors the bald. And you know, Cooper Flag obviously hasn’t played an NBA game yet. So it’s hard to even say like on paper you’re like, “Ah, sweet. I like this. I like how some of the rosters make it.” But we just saw OKC win a title and it’s hard to just be like, “Oh, we can compete with those guys right now.” I mean, what if Flag is like as good as Luca was his rookie year? Then maybe we’re talking about something completely different where we’re like, “Oh, maybe they could be one of the one of these teams.” You know, you just did a whole podcast on that the other day where you said Cooper was better than Luca. No, Cooper’s not going to be on the same level as Luca rookie season as far as like scoring and like being able to carry a team offensively and stuff. We’ve said this so many different times. His game is going to look completely different than Luca’s. So, he can be impacting both both ends of the floor. The numbers won’t look the same. Maybe some of the crazy highlights that Luca have had. Uh, he won’t have those, but it doesn’t mean that he’s going to be like a bad rookie because of it. Why’d you do that? You keep bringing up Luca and comparing them. Like, we do we need to compare them every single time. Put it in the thumbnail and then see how many people Well, we will. Would you ra would you rather have the Lakers or or the Mavit? You are, aren’t you? No, we didn’t start. These guys can’t stop talking about Luca. Wait, talking about him every day for like seven years. Guys keep talking about Luka. Yeah, we that’s what we did for so long. Luca get traded back to the Mavs and it’s like why you still talking about him? Move on. Move on. Guys are still talking about Cooper flag. Coming up, the worst possible scenario for the Mavericks and more questions you guys. We’ll get in them. Explain yourself. Sorry. All right, Isaac, we’re answering questions from our text line. Joinsubtex.com/lockdownmavs. You can go and uh and text us, get text alerts from us and all kinds of stuff. And we’re answering questions from Nick and from Jacob. The best and worst possible scenario for the Mavericks this season. You talked about the best. Here’s the worst to me. The opposite of everything he just said. Oh, cool. Anthony Davis doesn’t play 65 or more games and he’s he’s injured. He plays, you know, like 35 or something like that where you’re just like and it’s it’s non it’s like not he’s out for a long period of time. It’s like multiple times he’s out with different kinds of injuries. The eye thing again, some other kind of like a doctor, something like that keeps popping up and it he’s out for different What was that? What was that conspiracy for? No, you said the eye thing. This his third eye. No, no, no. Keep going. Come on. I think that was the first time you’ve used the sound your soundboard on the show. And I just want to mark this I just want to mark this occasion. And I you know what I you know how you know what I want to say back to you? What? Stop it. That’s the next evolution of this show. We’re just going to communicate with each other through drops for a whole segment. Isaac, when you played this, I just wanted to say, explain yourself. Sorry. Welcome to Dallas. Oh, dang it. I’m not playing. I’m watching. Just All right, I’m done. I’m done. I’m done. Put that in the time stamps. Isaac uses soundboard soundboard for the first time on the show. It’s a big moment. It’s a big moment. Uh, in the comments on YouTube, recommend a a sound drop you want Isaac to add to his to his board. I got a running list. I just got to do it. I I’ll send him I’ll send him my my library of all the old ones that that we’ve used before. Worst possible outcome. Anthony Davis doesn’t play a ton of games and uh Cooper Flag is not a fringe all-star and he doesn’t look like the player that we expected to be. His offense is going to take a little bit more time. The defense is not like looking looking like it’s going to end up being elite, you know, first year. I don’t know that we can know that first year, but it looks like he doesn’t really belong out there. That would be worst case scenario where you go, “Oh my gosh, he was supposed to come in and save the franchise and he may be a developmental guy because he’s 18, he’s young, he’s got to figure out NBA game, like the speed of the game looks too much for him.” In in a similar way to what it looked like for Omax, like when we saw Omax go out there and you go, “Oh no, this is going to take a little bit longer than we thought or hoped.” And Kyrie doesn’t come back at all. Okay. What’s your Because I said the same things. What’s your the worst case scenario like team finish? Because I want to see if it’s the same as mine. Oh, I mean they missed the the the they miss everything. Like they missed the lottery. No. See, so no, no, no, no. Let me convince you. Wait, they they See you guys at the lottery. We’re back. We’re back there. At least in the lottery, we know we have a shot. Like that’s true. They do. I said I said worst case scenario, you you get out of the plan to be the eighth seed and you get swept. Yeah. Yeah. I think that’s horrible. I think that’s the the worst possible. I mean, this is the whole thing this past this past year. You’re like, “What? What are we doing? Why why are we trying to get the eighth spot to get swept by OKC?” And yeah, I think that would be the the worst case scenario. But but then fortune favored the bold, Isaac. Yeah, it did. It did. Did he say that? Can we use that as a drop? Did he use that in a sh Stop list? I’m I’m adding it as a drop. We’re going to overuse that so much. Just like this one. Dallas is going to get a seat at the table. They got a seat. All right. They got to see something. Uh I I was talking fantasy football the other day and somebody was like, “Hey, like Brian Thomas versus Nico Collins.” And I was like, “I’m taking Brian Brian Thomas because I just don’t I can’t have Nico Collins on my team and they just didn’t get it forever.” So anyway, that’s Did you say you were talking to fantasy football? To somebody about fantasy football. Okay. Talking to fantasy football. It’s a new AI program. Isaac sitting there with a mock draft in front of him being like, “You know what, fantasy football, I’m going to I’m going to beat you this.” What’s the next question? There’s so many we didn’t we’re not going to get to, but uh I answered as many as I could in a mailbag that I sent to the text uh the text line subscribers. Uh Montana Mazan asked this, “Who will average more points, DLO or Cooper Flag? Is it bad if the answer is DLO?” We’ve kind of talked about this before, but I don’t think it’s bad if if DLO is the answer. DLO averaged for the four years before last one 18 points a game. I don’t think Cooper Flag is going to average 18 points a game. If he does that, you think it’s DLO? I think it’s Cooper easily. I think Cooper could I think Cooper could and I think I I think Cooper will, but I don’t think the answer is bad if it’s D’Angelo Russell. I think that’s that’s the question I’m answering for him. You want to put a board bet on it until Kyrie comes back? Oh, who averages more points, DLO or Cooper Flag? I’ll take Cooper. I don’t want to vert against Cooper Flag in any single way. No, no. I need you to be rooting for DLO. Remember, every year we do the board bet revisited episode and we go back and look at them. It’s awesome. It’s a great episode. We always do. Um, someone asked very late. Mark said, “Who would you rather have, Patrick Dumont, Matt Hishbia, or Jerry Ryan?” Yeah. Yeah. I had And I laughed really hard and I thought about it too long. I had that one written down and um I didn’t think about it, too. You know what I came back to? Jerry Rinsdorf saw success. He may have ruined it in the end, but he saw success. And you know what? You know what? Say what you want about Patrick Dumont, loyal listener of the podcast. His team has been to a finals. And you can’t say that about Matt Ishb. So, I’d take Dumont at least over Ishb. Okay. So, Dumont versus Ishb because I just wrote Ryan Dorf off. You take Ryan Dorf? No, no, I just wrote him off. So, who’s the owner for Michael Jordan? Okay. Would you rather have an owner that blindly says, “I don’t I don’t know anything.” You got You got it. And blindly empower somebody that and doesn’t know like anything about the, you know, organization, culture, any of the stuff, and just says, “Hey, you are hired in this job. You make all the decisions.” Would you rather have that or would you rather have I’m coming in hot and I’m going to do I want to do all these different things like Ishbia. Ishbia issued a memo to the the Sun like the people that work for the Suns that he’s going to be get getting more involved. Yeah, I know. So, which one would you rather have? I would take I would take the Dumont approach. Okay. And that’s where it although the Mavs had the Matt Ishbia approach technically with Cuban for a long time and it worked out okay for them. Yeah. I mean all of this is obviously relative to the person and all the stuff and the franchise and what you’re starting with and the talent that you’re working with and all that. And obviously like I don’t think Dumont is the reason they went to the finals. I’m not I’m not saying that. What I’m saying heard his team his team did go to the finals. Patrick, we know. We know. That’s right. That’s right. You did that. You did that. Um, okay. I’m also not They handed you the Western Conference Finals trophy, right? Right. Did you know what it was? Maybe not. He did get that trophy, didn’t he? Yeah, he did. And also, he would have gotten the trophy for the championship games, too. Funny. I don’t want to ask the opposing player in the fear thing because then we’re going to talk about L again. Um, Laura Beth Greg said, “Top three role players from Mavs history that would fit very well on this current roster, and you can’t pick anyone that’s played in the for the Mavs over the last 10 years. I love this question. I totally overlooked that last part of the question. I I looked Oh, you cheater. I don’t think I cheated.” No, I don’t think Well, cuz like JJ’s out. I was going to say, yeah, JJ JJ is the one that I picked. Okay, I did put that one in there. Oh, well, sorry. I went through every roster. Sorry, Greg. Sorry. Jason Terry’s got to be the first one on your list. No, he he’s didn’t he play like No, he didn’t. No, he didn’t. Not for Not for the Mavs. Not for the last year. I guess you I guess I always just considered him like a top three player on that team. Yeah, but he was never like an all-star. He was six man of the year once and second twice and third twice. And I mean, never close to an all-star. Um he last played for the Mavericks in 2012. Yeah. So he’d count. He would count. The other one I picked was Devin Harris. He’s definitely played in the last 10 years for him. Yeah. But I didn’t care about that part of the question. You didn’t see the role. Um I got to throw some names at you. He last played 2018. That’s definitely less than 10 years. That’s not It’s not far though. a guy a guy that I really I really liked back in the day. Alfarukaminu um man he would be I would love him on this team. Um play I know but he would be fun. Him Jay Crowder my guy Vince Carter. Um Dwan Blair probably wouldn’t play but here you go. Do you get Vince Carter Mavs era Vince Carter? Yeah that I think you got to take I picked I think you picked three guys that wouldn’t play in the rotation. Shut up. All right, go cut your hair. Alfredo and Mavs. All right, let me give you some real ones that I’d rather break the rules than have no rule breaker. Here’s some guys that actually play on this team. Rody B Rody B would play on this team. He would be a fun spark plug off the bench. I think Pasa shooting would get in some minutes uh possibly on the wing. Um, your your guy Nick the Quick. Oh, yeah. He would be fun on this team. Backup guard. Uh, Hubert Davis, Jerry Stackhouse. Um, and then Eric, you broke the rules, too. What? He said pick three. Like 12 players. Deshawn Stevenson. Uh, Eric Strickland, I think, is kind of a throwback one. And then Brad Davis. I think Brad Davis back Oh, yeah. Could use a good point guard. Scrappy Brad would be fun off the off the bench. Not Townson, Brad Davis. But yeah, there you go. There you go. That’s answered some of our questions. Subscribe to the text line. You want to uh get your question answered. I answered a ton. Uh we got a ton of other questions in there about Cooper Flag, about Mav season, about trades. People People are still asking about the Luca trade. I got two questions about the Luca trade in there. So, uh go subscribe to that, guys. Thanks for hanging out with us tomorrow. We’ll be back with more breaking down some whatifs and then we’ll have Slightly and Isaac and I for the for the end of the week. Thanks so much for listening to Black Labs. Peace out. Boom.

The Dallas Mavericks face tough decisions as they evaluate their roster and future prospects. Which NBA teams have better situations than the Mavs, and how does Cooper Flagg factor into their plans?

Nick Angstadt and Isaac Harris discuss which NBA teams they would trade situations with if they were the Dallas Mavericks, considering factors like Cooper Flagg, Anthony Davis, and Kyrie Irving. They also explore best and worst-case scenarios for the Mavs’ upcoming season, mentioning players like D’Angelo Russell and teams like the Oklahoma City Thunder, San Antonio Spurs, and Los Angeles Lakers.

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