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Mavs Fans, Breathe! Here's Why Luka & Co. Will Be OK

The Dallas Mavericks have had a rough start to this season, mainly due to Covid-19, but Luka Doncic, Kristaps Porzingis and the rest of the team have brighter days ahead of them. Everything is going to be fine, MFFL.

Dalton Trigg

Despite being down numerous starters and other key role players over the first month of the 2020-2021 season, MVP-favorite Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks seem to have - to some degree - weathered the storm, and hopefully have brighter days ahead.

On this episode of the Mavs Step Back Podcast, Dalton Trigg and Matt Galatzan discuss how the Mavs have made to this point, not only with all the Covid-19 setbacks that have been out of their control, but also while having the fifth-toughest schedule to this point as well. 

If you want an idea of just how brutal the first quarter of this season has been for Dallas, consider that going into the Wednesday visit to Utah, their projected starting five of Doncic, Josh Richardson, Tim Hardaway Jr., Dorian Finney-Smith (or even Maxi Kleber) and Porzingis haven't played one minute together this season. 

If the Mavs can stay relatively healthy the rest of the way, they should be fine, as they'll have a much easier schedule in front of them from now until the All-Star break.

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But we do have questions ...

*Is Rick Carlisle overthinking things when it comes to how Porzingis is best-utilized? 

*Should MFFL be worried about Doncic potentially leaving Dallas in the future if the front office can't build a more well-rounded roster around him in the coming years? 

*Which Maverick is most-likely to be traded this season? 

*Is Bradley Beal upset enough that he could finally force his way out of Washington? 

All these questions and much, much more are answered from our listeners' mailbag this week:

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Dalton Trigg
DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

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