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the fourth best player on ESPN.
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Top 10 ranking is Luca.
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Don change.
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Get familiar.
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The Mavs young superstar impressed in his playoff debut versus the Clippers, knocking down a 28 ft step back winner in overtime and averaging 31 points over nine rebounds and over eight assists in six games.
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Max are Luka and the Maps title contenders this season.
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Yes, they are.
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Yes, they are.
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If Porzingis is healthy, their title contenders and by the way, they're being careful with them.
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They're giving them that first month.
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They're gonna be careful.
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Look at what Porzingis did in the playoffs.
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Talk about second bananas who show up.
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The dude is 7 ft three, can face up, can take a big off the dribble.
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Can defend in space.
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Can defend in the paint.
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Yeah, Lucas An M V P caliber player.
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Porzingis is not far behind, and then they have Dorian Finney, Smith and Maxie Kleeb, long defenders, big guys who can also really shoot.
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And then they got Tim Hardaway Jr.
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Who actually is an underrated defender at this point, and it's just a good player at this point.
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They just made the trade for Richardson, who Is it more of a D and three than a three D?
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But, yes, the Mavericks, the Clippers were lucky to beat them because poor Zynga's got hurt.
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Otherwise, the Mavs would have played the Nuggets and maybe beaten them.
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I don't know if that's true.
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Number one and I don't really know yet whether or not their title contenders, because they did lose Seth Curry.
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Um, they lost the Curry.
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So I think that compromise this shoot, I'm not gonna call them.
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Call them a better shooting team with Seth Curry is going now, But I will also say this.
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Can they get?
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You know, Listen, can Can they win another playoff?
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Siri's again.
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Can they do that for me, please?
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Pretty please.
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With sugar on top, can they pull that off?
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Because it's been the last 10 years that that has not been the case.
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I respect them.
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I respect the talent.
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I know Porzingis and Luca is that dude and deport Zynga's can ball.
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But in terms of a title contender, we'll see how the jury is still out on that.
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I'm gonna lean towards No, for the time being.
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Yeah, I'm right there with you.
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I can't just give them that just yet.
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Not this year.
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In the future, Yes, but like Max to your point, you We have to see how pro Zynga's comes back, because here it is another knee surgery.
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I have to see my eyes have to tell me that he's 100% healthy and he's gonna be 100.
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They're gonna be ableto depend on him, and he's gonna be reliable.
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For his health wise, he hasn't been.
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He hasn't been, uh, he hasn't been healthy for a long time now.
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So with that being said, I can't just say that the Mavericks are contender team.
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They're dangerous out in the West this year.
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But if prisoners comes back healthy and they make it through a couple of rounds in the near future, yes, they are gonna be competing for titles.
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But right now I don't feel like they have all the necessary pieces in the role players toe actually be considered a title contender.
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What do they listen?
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What are they missing?
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I just I mentioned Dorian Finney.
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Smith and Hardaway Jr can shoot from the outside and they can all play defense.
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Actually now and you've got an M V P in a near M V P if he's healthy.
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We all agree Porzingis is health is a question mark, but if they go into a playoff series healthy, that's a problem for anybody.
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No, Max, I disagree.
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I disagree.
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And and here's why.
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One is that I feel like they need a veteran guy in that locker room with some type of championship experience.
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Although Luca is a thug, he's a superstar and not get it.
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Prisoners is a star, but they need some other pieces in that locker room to help those guys and guide them the way Ah, coach and Rick Carlisle is.
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He's a good coach.
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I respect them a lot.
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He's a champion, you know.
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He's been with the Mavericks for a long time, but a coach could only take you so far.
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