The Dallas Mavericks have seemingly spent this season in a state of perpetual confusion. Issues began alright however have worsened because the 2022-23 marketing campaign nears a detailed. Buying and selling for Kyrie Irving solely difficult issues by doing the other of what group governor Mark Cuban had hoped. Wednesday night time’s recreation in opposition to the Golden State Warriors completely sums up this group of Mavs. They give the impression of being dazed and confused.

A communication mishap stemming from the earlier play led to the Warriors taking an uncontested layup in a play that no person may consider. We’ve seen uncontested performs on the rim within the NBA, particularly in recent times, however not like this when a group is inbounding the ball from beneath their very own hoop.

Dallas’ total group was on the different finish of the ground. Head coach Jason Kidd wasn’t even conscious of what had occurred and tried to argue his level with officers to no avail. This could possibly be the strangest play of this NBA season. In one in every of Kyrie Irving’s first video games as a Mav final month, there was a play the place he and Luka Dončić performed scorching potato with the ball on the finish of a recreation, with neither getting up a remaining shot. Wednesday night time in opposition to the Warriors blows that play out of the water.

Including insult to that debacle is the actual fact the Mavs misplaced this significant recreation in a good western convention playoff race. Dallas has fallen to ninth place within the west, dropping two in a row and 6 of their final 10 video games. This Luka-Kyrie experiment doesn’t appear to be will probably be run again in Dallas, and the identical destiny may befall Kidd quickly. After making a shocking run to the Western Convention Finals final yr, something lower than making the playoffs might trigger Cuban to suppose twice concerning the course of his franchise.