Mavericks Destroyed By Rockets in 2026 Season Opener w/ @MFFLNation

Yeah, I appreciate you for having me on first, but I think like...

There was a good amount of negatives and there was a few positives to take away from it.

I'm not hitting the panic button, but I do think that it's quite obvious that this roster is not a playoff team.

Hence, also the fact being that Derek Lively and Santi Aldama didn't play.

They definitely won't make positive impacts in Dallas.

But even with those kind of guys, it's not like it's changing the whole trajectory of your team.

I think, like you said, Santi Aldama, Derek Lively, even Tarek Babarevich will help when they're healthy and ready to come back.

But I think, as you said, there's still bigger questions about this roster that may not be answered This season at all, I think it might take until the trade deadline, until next offseason to really build a balanced roster.

This season, I think, is more about figuring out who fits next to Cooper Flagg and who doesn't.

But what were your kind of takeaways from yesterday's game? Because I thought that the first quarter started off pretty promising.

I mean, P.J. Washington hit a couple of threes.

You know, the Mavericks were getting into the lane.

Cooper Flagg, I think, hit a couple shots.

Kyrie was doing his thing.

But then in the second quarter, it really all fell apart.

And I think I have my reasons as to why I think that happened, but I'm curious to get your take about it.

Yeah, I think – and I spoke – I don't remember if I said it on my pod or if I tweeted it, but one of the most, like, discouraging things that I personally saw last night, and I don't know if it was because it was the first game of the season, Dusty May has a very college-esque rotation that he is running right now, and I was not a fan of it whatsoever.

I – It really upset me the way he was running those rotations last night.

I don't think Kyrie, being your top guy, should not be going out in the first four minutes of the game.

I

don't care.

I was really surprised how early he checked out of the game.

Yeah, it was shocking.

I thought he clearly has zero trust in any center outside of Mraz Johnson Jr., which is something that you either trust him or you got to get off of him.

I'm tired of stashing on to these guys forever and ever.