The Only Mavericks Podcast

Tim Cato, Austin Ngaruiya and Mike Piellucci dive into everything we’ve seen through the team’s first two days of free agency, including Klay Thompson, how it shows the difference of this front office compared to the past regime, the strange (but not bad) Derrick Jones Jr. for Naji Marshall swap, Quentin Grimes optimism and caution, and everything else Dallas has done and could still do.

Tim Cato, Austin Ngaruiya and Mike Piellucci talk about the best moments and lessons learned from the Mavericks' Finals run that ended earlier this week.

Tim Cato and Austin Ngaruiya talk about what's real from Game 4 and what might not be in Game 5: the rim protection, Dereck Lively II's reemergence, Kyrie Irving, the rotation, and Luka Doncic.

Tim Cato, Austin Ngaruiya, and Mike Piellucci talk about the Mavericks' 0-2 hole in the NBA Finals, what's led to them being here, and what things need to change — things that absolutely can — for Dallas to get back into this series.

Tim Cato talks to Locked On Mavs' Nick Angstadt about the Mavericks' Game 1 defeat in the NBA Finals, where we think the offense was much more of a problem than the defense. We discuss why Boston took away the lob dunk so effectively without conceding corner 3s and what rotation changes or other tweaks might be coming to change that in Game 2. We both ended up in a more optimistic place about Dallas' chances than we were immediately after Game 1. Want Tim's instant reactions? I'm recording after every game on The Athletic NBA Show feed with our Boston Celtics beat writers Jay King and Jared Weiss.