Nico Harrison couldn't even let Paige Bueckers take the DFW basketball spotlight for 24 hours before embarrassing himself again. He and Mavs CEO Rick Welts held a media session with no cameras or audio allowed, where he doubled down on the Luka Doncic trade. Kevin and Cory react to his comments and why their talking points don't line up with the results on the court.
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00:00rick welts was also part of this and he said in his 47 year nba career he's never seen a more
00:22passionate fan base than dallas which is not something i feel like i've ever heard about
00:26mavericks fans but i mean it's not but then he added we hear them it's on us to win their trust back the
00:33story is unfinished we understand the plan but as you said it goes back to defense because nico said
00:40this was the best decision going forward okay let's take a look since the trade took place
00:48the dallas mavericks where do you think they ranked defensively in the nba first obviously
00:54probably one would think now there have been injuries although i don't know if you can call
01:01the injury to kyrie now that's problematic for the team i don't know if that would have as big of an
01:07impact on the defensive rating as obviously anthony davis and well every big who's ever existed for
01:14this team the house mavericks since the trade 24th in the nba in defensive rating okay whoops
01:28and they have allowed the most points in the paint during that time frame now at least with that i can
01:37understand how you're like hey lively lively gafford davis like that that pj was your center and point
01:43guard and and that's that's not a winning combination just because like he should not be expected he got
01:48hurt but like yeah so i realize that you've had injuries and maybe it changes totally completely
01:54next year but since the trade they're 24th in defensive rating yeah and i i also understand last
02:01year they did kind of get beat up i mean they definitely got beat up against the celtics they
02:06couldn't stop them defensively they didn't have anything that like they a matchup they loved versus kp
02:12uh and maybe they were looking at it going hey anthony davis is a good matchup for porzingis and then
02:18we have other things that we can feel comfortable with and it does feel like they were very specifically
02:24focusing on defeating boston in the finals yes like this this whole thing has felt that way to me
02:30and they didn't feel like they got the effort or whatever it was from luca in that finals that they
02:36needed to get over the top