With the season well underway it’s time for our continuous temperature check. While we know game-in and game-out the feelings of how the Mavericks look and feel, this is our chance to zoom out. To scan the larger landscape and see where Dallas rises or falls among the league as a whole. The NBA Power Rankings Watch.

A rocky start for the Dallas Mavericks shouldn’t surprise anyone. A team that was beat up and dejected to finish last season, recovering from injury, trying to reconnect the remaining pieces, adding a number one pick into the fold, all while missing your star guard with no reasonable back up? Yes, I’m shocked they’ve had trouble scoring.

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The Mavericks have averaged 1.25 points on the 64 half-court possessions when D’Angelo Russell brought the ball up the court, compared

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