d-mar: I see that the Mavs lost to the Rockets and check the box score, and Porzingis and Doncic both played.

Bad loss for Dallas.

I’m starting to suspect Doncic and Porzingis legitimately don’t like each other.

You can sometimes see it in KP’s face and body language. He looks disgusted when Doncic takes a bad shot or he’s not getting the ball. Then when he finally does get the ball, he throws up trash because he hasn’t touched it for 5 minutes.

Doncic has a tendency to try to do too much, but it’s worse with KP. He seems to not trust (or like) him. He sometimes looks him off and passes to someone else or throws up a tough shot rather than give it to him.

It’s like they are both feeding off each other in a negative way instead of a positive way.

They both want to win and they’ll play together because they have to, but I think both would rather be playing with someone else. It would not shock me if behind the scenes KP wants out. If he asked for a trade after not being happy in NY, it would look really bad. It may not even be possible with his injuries anyway. But I think he’s unhappy in Dallas right now playing with Doncic and Doncic does not like or trust KP either.

I suspect if he could do it all over again knowing what he knows now and maturing a little, KP wishes he was still in NY.

We are losing these games because we don’t have enough offensive firepower or a true #1 closer. You can get away with a C like Noel or a SF like Bullock if the other 3-4 players are high level scorers. Then they add value in their defensive and more limited offensive roles. But not when your PG is low volume and inefficient also. Randle starts trying to do too much and RJ is improving but not ready to be a #1 option.

With Mitch and RJ we have 2 very good young pieces (though I still hope Mitch eventually expands his game a little). Randle is still a good player even if we are asking him to do too much now. We need another legitimate versatile shooter/scorer and an upgrade at PG and this can be a very good team.

pepper:
mitch’s injury…randle wearing down and reading his own press, iq coming back down to earth and rose getting the ‘rona have tweaked the fragile thibs ecosystem…the fight is there…just not the karma…

Definitely

Z-man:
We’ve lost 5 of our last 6…maybe the ship be sinking?

Sink for Bouknight?

Z-man:
On a less obvious note, Romeo looked decent out there…

I heard the Boy Wonder actually ask where’s Romeo and I couldn’t help but smile. At least he didn’t say wherefore art thou.