This past week has been a trying one for the City of Dallas, the Texas Rangers traded the face of their franchise, Michael Young, to the Philadelphia Phillies, the Dallas Cowboys had tragedy to hit the team with the death of one of their own and another facing charges in the accident and our thoughts and prayers go out to both families effected by the accident.
We are now 20 games into the season and on this last 3 game road trip, our Dallas Mavericks went 2-1. One of those was an ugly loss to the hot Los Angeles Clippers, but it started ugly and ended ugly. Dallas started in the hole and finally got back in the game and was within 3 points when it went south again and they were never able to regain themselves and notched this game up as a loss and had to prepare for the next night’s game.
It’s quite obvious that when you have a bench player and a new addition to the team to lead your team in scoring with 15 and 16 points respectively, then you are in a serious load of trouble. The ...
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