The Dallas Mavericks (2-7) put on their most putrid, pitiful, pathetic performance in Friday’s 118-104 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies (4-6) to open up NBA Cup play at the Fedex Forum. The defense was listless and the offense was hopeless in a stunning display of cowardly ineptitude for the team’s fourth straight loss.

To call this team broken would be a generous appraisal of the sad, sad state of affairs. This team has been pulverized into jagged scraps by its own front office’s violent incompetence, and you can only laugh at the results on the floor to keep from crying… or puking.

With the game’s outcome already decided at halftime, the Mavericks basically gave up in the third quarter, and there’s no need to belabor it anymore in this particular post, so here are the stupid stats from a

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