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The G-Bags go Around the Rim: Dallas Mavericks Edition
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Chee Bag Nation here, 105.3, the fan. The NBA season, fast approaching, very exciting here to be on the radio talking about these Dallas Mavericks. Here's Wolf Chuck. Thank you very much. Let's go ahead and cut the lights out, put the kids to bed and let's go all the way around the rim. Gosh, it's been too long as your Western Conference Champion, Dallas Mavericks get ready to go ahead and win. Larry O'Brien's trophy this year and that is the theme championship. Said Luca Donchich, that's the goal, that's the expectation. Kyrie Irving saying like I feel like our dreams can be possible because he's here now. Who's the he? That'd be Clay Thompson. He's added a great value to our championship aspirations and Mike Curtis of the Morning News does a great job covering the Mavs and well, one of his big five things to look at here as training camp gets going in Las Vegas, it is the fit of Clay Thompson. Now Clay is expected to start, but listening to Kyrie and listening to Luca talk about the addition of Clay, it is exciting. I mean, Luca's saying when me and Ky, when we have the ball, you basically can't help off of Clay. Cause if you leave him wide open, he's gonna make it. So I think the spacing is going to be crucial for us, but more of that I will tell you after a couple of games, I think the question is defensively, how much does Clay Thompson have left? Does he end up being a liability to where then maybe they are forced to play more of Quentin Grimes and Najee Marshall? But the depth of this team is the best it's been probably since they won the championship in 2011 with the addition of Spencer Dinwitti who will get to a moment. But to me, I mean, I'm less of critiquing what Clay Thompson does in the regular season unless it just looks god awful. To me, this is all about how does Clay look in the playoffs? Does he then give you what you lacked against Boston, which is somebody that can shoot from a high rate on the perimeter and that championship grit and toughness with this team clearly, hey, they made it through the West but you saw they were lacking against the Celtics. - Yeah, you know, I feel like though they're talking about Clay Thompson like he was the pre-injury version of himself like five years ago. You know, I think that's fair. Like we don't have to dwell on what Clay Thompson isn't. We can appreciate what he is. But at the same time, guys, you know, this isn't a guy that's gonna fix everything and it brings up a lot of very interesting questions about what is the optimal, not only starting five, finishing five, but what's your eight or nine man rotation looking like? How much can you have Clay in the game with Kyrie and Luca? I'm glad they have a quality coaching staff like they do to figure this out. I'm glad they have Clay Thompson instead of what they had last year. I think this is a step in the right direction. But to me, we'll check. They have not built a better team than Boston yet. I don't think Clay Thompson is going to reverse what we saw in the finals, which was a very impressive Celtics nomination. - Yeah, it's hard to say that they've built a team better than Boston. I would agree with you. I mean, the Celtics just looked like an absolute juggernaut, but my hope is if indeed that ended up being a rematch, you will have Derek Lively, who I think is going to be a big jump this year from where he was a year ago. And I'm the most excited about Lively over anything else of this team is bringing back. And then, you know, now you've got Luca, who hopefully grew and learned throughout that entire postseason run. You add in a Clay Thompson. You already had Kyrie, who was really the only one with any experience, some depth, like a Dinwitti who can step up maybe at you 20 randomly. I mean, you just had a lack of offensive help around Luca. I think they did a better job of that. So I'm with you. I'd still go Celtics one. But I think the Mavericks did a good job of trying to close the gap. And I guess the hope is when you have a player, the caliber of Luca, maybe that could be enough and he can just take over a series for him. You made yourself better. There's no doubt with the addition of Grimes, Marshall, and Thompson compared to what you have last year. They're better. I'm picking them to win the West again. - Yeah, I think they are the best team in the West. And again, that's going to be difficult. I mean, we'll see you then the new additions that Minnesota's made with that trade now with Carl Anthony Towns. How does Julius Randall fit in? If he can stay healthy, if he can stay healthy, maybe Julius Randall is a good fit with Anthony Edwards. I don't know, but I mean, they were able to knock off Denver. I thought the point you made yesterday, you just beat the Nuggets. I mean, the Nuggets are still the team. We haven't seen the Mavericks play in a seven game series. That would be an interesting matchup. If indeed that were to happen, I think Denver's still the team with Yokich that you fear a little bit. But Dinwitti is back in the fold. And last year he made headlines after he got bought out, the decision to go signing with the Lakers. He said, let's say you're a kid and you get your ass whooped by the bully. Dallas would have been like your mom. I'm like, it's okay, baby. Lakers are like your dad. Nah, you better go out there and fight till you win. Well, Dinwitti got ahead of it of the media days yesterday on reciting with the Dallas Mavericks. Anytime, you know, I've kind of been knocked down. I try to take, you know, the harder path. And not necessarily making a hard on myself, but just in terms of like that growth, right? And, you know, so when I made, obviously, which everybody's going to ask about, the comments was all about comfort zones. It was funny because both LA and Dallas fan base is kind of thought it was like about them, but it really wasn't. It was like man first bully, you know what I'm saying? So given what happened with Brooklyn it'd be in top five multiple categories, you know, points and threes and assists and to kind of have that exit play out like that. Obviously, you know, sucked, hurt, you know, all those other things. So I was, the perspective was man first bully. It really had nothing to do with either fan base, to be honest. And yeah, so that was it. I was based a member and try to take a harder path in terms of just growth. And so far in my life, it's pretty much certainly well. You know, I like Spencer Denwood. His wisdom, his approach, his maturity, professionalism. It's all 10 out of 10. That was a reach. He's in a tough spot. He's that all summer to think of a good answer. Yeah. And that wasn't it. The bad answer of both fan bases thought it was about themselves. Well, I mean, the question was, right, why did you decide the Lakers over the maps? So it was all good, man. Just shoot that three ball, 38% and we'll be cheering for you. I'm happy to have him back. I mean, I think he's also probably an underrated defender. I mean, the eight five eight does not think that the Mavericks are deeper. I don't know how you can look at this roster, even if you don't think Clay's any good and not say the Mavericks are a deeper team. Yeah, you just don't know Graham's and Marshall. That's fine. You know, they're random role players on non playoff teams, but they are elite defenders that can space the floor well enough. And Clay's better than Tim Hardaway Jr by far. 100%, right? THJ could not get on the floor. You added three players that will be part of your postseason rotation. So I think if you don't think that they got, they close the up to Boston, that's fair, but they 100% got better. I think you're just hating on the maps and that's all right. It is also Lucas seventh year. Is it lucky number seven for number 77? Seven years already, huh? Yeah. This is the lucky lucky number seven could be. I like that tie in lucky number seven for 77. And then Kyrie's broken hand. That's not something we really have taught. We kind of forgot about that, but Kyrie, he did undergo surgery, repaired a broken hand. Does that have any impact on the start of the season? I think the map's first preseason game will be on Monday at home against Memphis. Yeah. So I don't know how much he's going to be participating in preseason, but hopefully that's something that's interesting. And then, you know, it has an impact. It just reminds you how fragile Kyrie has been throughout his career. He's been fairly healthy with the maps. He's going to be 33 next spring. So for me, it just puts more of an added emphasis on take advantage of this group that you have right now and get the job done. I'm very aggressive at the trade deadline. Yeah. Well, and last year, I mean, the additions of Washington and Gafford, you've got to trust that Nico will try and fill in any gaps on this roster at the bigs. I think, of course, I mentioned lively. What is he able to do in year two? Gafford now a full off season with the team full season with the team who emerges as your defensive anchor. I think that's going to be indeed Derek lively, but I think Najee Marshall, you lost Derek Jones Jr., that is going to be huge. Who's the guy that can step up and really guard some of those elite guards, you know, in wings? And that was something Derek Jones Jr. did better than most players in the NBA. Najee Marshall, hopefully on paper, is that guy that can fill that role for you and certainly be a pest. I will say as we conclude the rim session, the big disappointment was Jimmy Butler, not continuing his tradition. Oh, he didn't, he didn't do anything this year. Like last year we had Eric do the bet pay off. You think the league asked him not to do something? Maybe, I don't know, I think he just, you know, maybe the bit had played out. He wanted to keep his guessing and he was unpredictable. Said no shenanigans, didn't do anything this year. 2022, 2023, he did the braves to the braids two years ago. Last year he did kind of the emo look. Oh, look, yeah, it was great. But nothing this year, which was kind of sad. There's your rim sesh. Well, thank you all Chuck. Thank you. Hey, we're, we got some stars content on the way for you as well a little bit later on in the show. Crusty's corner is coming up in 45 minutes. Brian's gonna, you know, give you his segment every day at 340 most days unless we'll check books he guessed in the middle of it, which we always appreciate though, but NFL news of the day coming up next Zachary, which you got the perfect game sticking with their starters in trouble in South Beach. That's next. 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