The Golden State Warriors is suffering this season with the absence of klay Thompson and Steph Curry and the bad performance of other players, from 6 games played they just won 1 game! And tonight they will face Portland Trail Blazers and I think it will be another defeat for the Warriors, I will bet for Portland To win this game.
An actual bet? The odds are just around @1.1 for the Blazers. Not worth placing a bet.
... and this is their new arena, I don't like to think that this new arena is unlucky.
Yeah, bad start for that new arena.
They won at this new arena once but that was back in the pre-season game against the Timberwolves.
Dallas is not really bad but the west is so stacked that there is no way they could ever compete with anyone and that is the trouble with teams who are in the middle like Portland and now Dallas. You know you are not good enough to win a ring, you know you are not bad enough to get a draft pick neither so you are stuck at the middle where you are not getting any better but you are not getting any worse neither just mediocre for years.
Portland has been there for years, for the past 5-6 years or so they have been a first round team, they managed to make it to conference finals but even they didn't believed beating the warriors themselves, so whats the point of being that good? Whats the point for Dallas? If you are not winning the ring then what are you even playing for?
I can't apply this to Dallas Mavericks yet. Their journey is just starting. Give it time.
You said that based on what you see on the Blazers run these past seasons. The competition in the West is really tough today but that's the same situation when Mavericks reached the finals for the first time in 2006 and able to chip the Larry O'Brien trophy back in 2011.