00:00rick welts was also part of this and he said in his 47 year nba career he's never seen a more
00:22passionate fan base than dallas which is not something i feel like i've ever heard about
00:26mavericks fans but i mean it's not but then he added we hear them it's on us to win their trust back the
00:33story is unfinished we understand the plan but as you said it goes back to defense because nico said
00:40this was the best decision going forward okay let's take a look since the trade took place
00:48the dallas mavericks where do you think they ranked defensively in the nba first obviously
00:54probably one would think now there have been injuries although i don't know if you can call
01:01the injury to kyrie now that's problematic for the team i don't know if that would have as big of an
01:07impact on the defensive rating as obviously anthony davis and well every big who's ever existed for
01:14this team the house mavericks since the trade 24th in the nba in defensive rating okay whoops
01:28and they have allowed the most points in the paint during that time frame now at least with that i can
01:37understand how you're like hey lively lively gafford davis like that that pj was your center and point
01:43guard and and that's that's not a winning combination just because like he should not be expected he got
01:48hurt but like yeah so i realize that you've had injuries and maybe it changes totally completely
01:54next year but since the trade they're 24th in defensive rating yeah and i i also understand last
02:01year they did kind of get beat up i mean they definitely got beat up against the celtics they
02:06couldn't stop them defensively they didn't have anything that like they a matchup they loved versus kp
02:12uh and maybe they were looking at it going hey anthony davis is a good matchup for porzingis and then
02:18we have other things that we can feel comfortable with and it does feel like they were very specifically
02:24focusing on defeating boston in the finals yes like this this whole thing has felt that way to me
02:30and they didn't feel like they got the effort or whatever it was from luca in that finals that they
02:36needed to get over the top
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