Watched the Mavs in front of a fire last night.
It’s the last time for a long time I’ll get to do either.
In the end, the Mavs played hard enough in their playoff series against the Rockets. They just didn’t play well enough.
Not that we should be surprised. I gave Dallas a legitimate chance to win this series against what I still think is a mediocre Houston team, but that was assuming Rajon Rondo and Chandler Parsons would be in uniform. When they left the series – for very different reasons – nothing was left except the details.
Led by Monta Ellis, Dirk Nowitzki and J.J. Barea, the Mavs played with frantic energy in Game 5. But they were only sporadically effective, and rarely efficient.
Passion be damned, you don’t win an NBA playoff game with 18 turnovers and 21 missed 3-pointers.
While the Rockets won a playoff series for the first time since Yao Ming, the Mavs are left with their grand plans in tatters and their future in limbo after the 103-94 loss.
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We don’t know for sure who will suit up for Dallas next October. But we are sure that the Rondo experiment was an epic fail.
A native Texan who was born in Duncanville and graduated from UT-Arlington, Richie Whitt has been a mainstay in the Metroplex media since 1986. He’s held prominent roles on all media platforms including newspaper (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dallas Observer), radio (105.3 The Fan) and TV (co-host on TXA 21 and numerous guest appearances, including NBC 5). He currently lives in McKinney with his wife, Sybil, and two very spoiled dogs.
