Coming into the 2012-13 season, the Dallas Mavericks had mixed expectations.
Some thought that the Mavericks ability to sign several veteran players to compliment Dirk Nowitzki would put them in the mix in the loaded Western Conference.
Others thought that their inability to sign a superstar player, and the fact that they had lost almost all of the remaining pieces from their 2011 championship season, would leave them struggling to squeak their way back into the playoffs.
As we sit here on March 2, the Mavericks season has gone much more towards the latter of those opinions.
Dallas sits at just 26-32 and a full five games out of the playoffs. Despite signing talented players in the offseason, the team has just not clicked consistently enough as a unit to be even a .500 team.
The Mavericks haven't missed the postseason in twelve years, but unless they are able to turn things around in a major way in the last month and a half, that streak will end in 2013.
The Mavericks front office is largely to blame for how poorly the team has played this season.
The downward spiral of the fr ...
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