Dallas is great and all but we are talking about regular season versus the playoffs. What many young people forget is that NBA plays a whole different game on playoffs, even the refs do not call most of the fouls. Have you ever considered why Rockets have been so amazing in the regular seasons for all seasons yet failed to deliver in the playoffs? Because, Harden is the type of player who gets 14.9 fouls per game, when refs stop calling for those fouls and people start defending him harder dude becomes a worse player.
So, Dallas is good and all that but as soon as playoffs comes they will have a huge trouble keeping up with all those no calls and harder defenses and more experienced players. In any case they have already proved people that if Dallas could build a better team around these two, they can contend for a ring one day.
Again, speculation. Obviously, once playoffs came, all teams will surely adjust have to adjust to the playoffs environment.
The question now is, how good their preparation for that adjustment and we will just see that once playoffs came.
We all know that season game is different from playoffs game because it's a head-to-head series. But for what teams are showing this season, at least we can have a glimpse of what will be their status once playoffs came.