Caleb Martin

I don't think it's worth losing Moussa to, to keep Dwight.

Could they do something else? Could they, you know, like, w- move Caleb Martin's contract? Do, could they change their mind on Berovich and, and move on from him? Like, I, maybe.

Maybe there's some other options out there.

I don't think all the things that you mentioned about Dwight Powell are worth losing a, you know, a 10 years younger, uber-athletic, like, rim protector, to get, gobble up shots-

Like, as far as, like, looking at it around the roster and being like, "All right, who's the unc on the team right now?" It, and that's kinda just Kyrie and it's Dwight.

So-

I'll say, we don't even talk about Caleb Martin like this, but he's been in a finals, he's been in the NBA for a while.

Like...

You've got...

Caleb Martin, P.J. Washington, Daniel Gaffer, guys that have played in the finals.

You've got Asante Aldama has been around for a little bit.

Obviously, you've got Kyrie Irving, who's been around.

I wanna see that he has a little bit more difficult of a time torching us than he has in the past.

So whether that's Max Christie or Caleb Martin or fill in the blank, I want to see us look competitive against somebody that, like that that would normally just rip us to shreds.

So that's my thoughts on tonight's preseason game against the Pelicans.

I do think we'll win, but even if we don't, it doesn't really matter all that much.

But, like, Marcus Sasser is a guy that can create his own shot and pull up and, and, and do that.

Like, we were watching first quarter Caleb Martin isolation minutes where, like, "Everybody get out of the way.

I'm Caleb Martin.

I'm gonna go get us a bucket," in that game against the Pelicans.

Like, that is not what we will be seeing [laughs] from this Dallas Mavericks team.

And it almost made me start this show today by saying, "Why do we do preseason? What's the point? What's the point of preseason?" [laughs] Like, "Why are we doing this? Why am I looking at this lineup right now early in this first quarter and it's, it's Larry, it's Caleb Martin, it's Toby Lowal, it's Seth Mundy, and Tarik Babaric? Why am I watching that lineup?" [laughs] They're missing their offensive variety.

We still haven't even seen Sasser yet.

I'm curious how he's g- what he's gonna add to this team and what he's gonna bring.

They have way too many forwards.

Like Alex mentioned, they brought in Richa Shea, who sucks, PJ Washington, Najee Marshall, Caleb Martin.

They all put the same position as Cooper Flagg, and there's only so many minutes to go around.

Outside of that, the depth really isn't there.

All right, before we start investigating some of the ripple effects coming out of this weekend, we do need to briefly talk about the beautiful, beautiful basketball action that we saw yesterday morning.

I was about to say that we saw a few days ago, but guys, 4 a.m. on Sunday morning was just a little more than 24 hours ago, and it feels like it was forever ago, but oh my gosh.

You can imagine.

You can fill in the blanks of some of the things I'm about to say.

Right.

We had plenty of contributors straight across the board.

We had one, two, three, four, five, six guys that scored in double digits.

OK.

You know, I, man, it's just preseason, so none of this matters.

But, like, I wanna see more from the Knife, dude.

I wanna see more from the Knife.

Oh, how so? How so?

He just ...

And then, uh, one final thought on this.

Get Caleb Martin off my basketball team.

Please trade him, cut him, do something.

He should not be a basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks anymore.