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KAT's back for the Wolves just in time to play us.

Bagley will start tonight alongside WCS per Ham and Anderson! Here. We. Go.

Bogi back to the bench and honestly I'm not mad at that.

Slow start, gotten tighten things up the rest of the way, play is pretty sloppy right now but luckily on both sides.

And just like that, we push the lead the 12.

Is it too early to say I hate Barnes and want him gone?

Just bad... I really thought he was a player that could have a renaissance here

As much as I like the idea of starting Bagley, we’ve really missed his presence off the bench so far. It’s not a surprise to me we jumped out to our lead when Bagley and Giles were on the floor together, they work well together we just got lucky Willie got in quick foul trouble.

WCS cant do anything right against KAT

Fox doesn’t get any calls at the rim.

Down 13 entering the 4th.

BoogieTime wrote:Is it too early to say I hate Barnes and want him gone?

Just bad... I really thought he was a player that could have a renaissance here

Way too early and crow will probably be served at some point. Coach isn't doing him any favors.

Apparently Taj Gibson is an immovable force.

We played like crap and deserved to lose that game. We never capitalized when Minny left the door open to take the win, just no winning plays tonight.

Buddy also not closing out the game is a mystery.

Need interior defense

So why was Buddy sitting at the end?

blind prophet wrote:

Creative, but as much as I like Buddy this is the one game I was screaming at the tv that he was busy costing us the game

If we're going to start Bagley he needs to come out early and start the fourth with the bench. He has a habit of dominating the second quarter and in this game no one was in to scorer.

Furthermore, there was a huge spacing issue with him and WCS camping out in the paint the entire time. Bagley is gonna have to play from perimeter if we are going to start him. We are not going to have a functioning offense with two bigs sitting in the paint every possession. Fox had no room to drive. There was no room for cutters. Someone can easily put together a montage of 20 possessions where the spacing was just awful.

All that being said, he was the main reason we almost won this game. His defense on Towns was great and he was scoring efficiently.

And the biggest mystery of the game...where is Buddy? Easily the most frustrating loss of the year for me. Wolves were begging us to take this game. In reality, we should have easily won by double digits. They played like crap and couldn't shoot all night.

Now you guys know why Mavs were happy to get rid of Barnes. Well done Vlade!