NBA Analysts See Big Things Coming for New-Look Mavs: ‘Best Team Luka Doncic’s Had’

The Mismatch’s Kevin O’Conner and Chris Vernon are incredibly impressed by what they’ve seen from the Dallas Mavericks following their trade deadline additions of P.J. Washington and Daniel Gafford, and they believe Luka Doncic and Co. could be special this season.

As the old saying goes, “winning cures everything,” and the Dallas Mavericks are currently experiencing that firsthand while riding a season-high seven-game winning streak.

Before the trade deadline, many national media members didn’t take Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving’s Mavs seriously due to their lack of frontcourt depth. However, the additions of P.J. Washington and Daniel Gafford have many people now singing Dallas’ praises.

On the latest episode of The Mismatch, NBA analysts Kevin O’Conner and Chris Vernon discussed the revamped Mavs and how much more versatile they are now after the trade deadline.

Now you look at this Mavericks roster,” O’Conner said. “You look at past years with Dallas, the lack of depth they’ve had behind Luka, the lack of wings, the lack of versatility. Now they’ve got versatile forwards like P.J. Washington and Maxi Kleber, wings, Josh Green, Derrick Jones [Jr.], Tim Hardaway [Jr.], bigs, [Dereck] Lively, [Daniel] Gafford. Obviously his co-star Kyrie Irving. They just have so many different types of pieces right now, that you’re seeing Jason Kidd use different types of lineups.”