3 thoughts after the Dallas Mavericks blow out the Cleveland Cavaliers, 110-90
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The Dallas Mavericks defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers at home Friday night, 110-90. Luka Doncic led all Dallas players with 24 points, while Collin Sexton poured in 27 in defeat for Cleveland.
Those regular readers of the site will know that when I write the recap, I literally recap the game in as much detail as I can before getting to some broader (or in some cases very specific) observations. Tonight, that’s not going to happen because the Cavaliers sat something like seven of their players in an attempt to lose this game and boy did they suck.
3 things as the Mavericks look to take down the short-handed Pistons
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The Dallas Mavericks had a great time whipping the tar out of a Golden State team on their own court on Tuesday night. It was a cleansing win both in that it was a start-to-finish blowout, but also because it washed away lingering intrusive thoughts stemming from a confounding loss to the Kings.
Now, Dallas looks to wrap up a three-game road trip with a visit to Detroit to play a Pistons team that has seen better days. The Kings are a bad Western Conference team. The Pistons are one of the worst teams in basketball at the moment. Dallas needs to shake off whatever malaise that has them playing down to bad teams and keep the kind of energy they had against the Warriors. Losing to the Pistons would not only not bode well for the Mavericks chances of holding onto the 6th seed (Portland is just a game behind them), but there’s a non-zero chance it mig
As Arizona and USC stumble, Tad Boyle is proven right
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Having just wrapped up one of the most successful seasons in Colorado Buffaloes history, Tad Boyle has been vindicated. That’s not because of anything happening in Boulder, but because his rivals are in the spotlight.
Back in 2017-18, the Buffs were a baby-faced team that was still figuring out how to play together. Led by freshmen McKinley Wright and Tyler Bey, this team flashed a ton of potential and even more grit. The highlight of the season was consecutive upsets over Arizona and Arizona State, the former of which was embroiled in FBI investigations into their recruiting practices. When asked if beating Arizona meant more because of those FBI investigations, Boyle answered emphatically, “Absolutely.”
3 things as Dallas looks to bounce back against the Bucks
They can finish this back-to-back 1 and 1, just like we all expected.
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Dallas looked like a team on empty Wednesday night as they’ve been playing through a hectic second-half schedule, packed with road games and back-to-backs to make up for the games postponed by February’s winter storm. In that sense, another double header isn’t exactly what the doctor ordered, but such is life.
It’s not out of the question that the team can regroup from an uncharacteristically bad shooting night Wednesday (maybe whatever Utah had rubbed off on them). Stranger things have happened; Dallas once lost to a horrible Rockets team right after beating the NBA-leading Jazz. Oh, that just happened? Ah, nevertheless.
NBA 2K21 Next-Gen Update 1.08 Fixes Faces and MyTeam - Patch Notes
On 4/6/21 at 12:14 PM EDT
NBA 2K21 is getting updated for both next-gen and current-gen platforms today, in the form of next-gen Patch 6 (version 1.08) and current-gen Patch 8 (version 1.10). And, since both downloads are fairly similar to one another, we ve decided to squeeze both versions of the patch notes into a single post.
MyTeam exploits are getting patched across the board, alongside a few likeness updates that are included for good measure. The patch notes arrive courtesy of the latest Courtside Report blog posts.
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Next-Gen update 6 (version 1.008.000) patch notes