Tuesday Morning Donuts: Mavs GameDay Orgy!

It’s here. It’s here with chemistry lessons …  and Mountain Dew … and injury reports from Mavs opponents … and questions about the playbook … and Stuart Scott’s got his eye on the whole thing. … It’s GameDay! Tuesday Morning Donuts, just the beginning of an all-day/all-night hoops orgy right here on DallasBasketball.com!

    DONUT 1: Mark Cuban is so fired up he wants you to sit next to him during a game.

    DONUT 2: The coverage of Wizards-at-Mavs on 103.3 ESPN Radio begins tonight at 6 with pregame coverage live from Victory Plaza … and that coverage will include the participation of yours truly. FISH on ESPN, tonight at 6:20 or so, on 103.3 ESPN Radio.

     DONUT 3: Wizards star Caron Butler is addicted to Mountain Dew. Man, if I’m Mark Cuban and the AAC staff, I do something about this. I fill that visitors locker room with the sweet temptation of Butler’s nasty drug and hope to lure him off the wagon.

    Or on the wagon. Whichever.

     DONUT 4: Lots of talk from the Monday workout about chemistry, and as encouraging as it all is, it’s kind of a bunch of hoo-hah unless the team actually wins a lot of games.

    We have the best chemistry I’ve had since I’ve been here,” Jason Terry said.

   I put some stock in that; heck, Jet has been here long enough to judge, right?

   “We’re a family here, on and off the court,” chimed in Shawn Marion.

   Well, OK … but The Matrix has been here for, like, a month. That’s one fast family!

   How about you, coach Carlisle?

     “We have the best chemistry I’ve had since I’ve been here,” said Rick, and again, that sounds good, but … Carlisle has only been here for a year.

      So it starts to sound like a bit of a cliché, no?

     DONUT 5: One more this about this “chemistry’’ issue, not that I’m doubting the truth or sincerity of all involved: Didn’t last year’s team have good chemistry? Everybody loved Brandon Bass (Dirk says he was his “little brother.’’) Antoine Wright was a good guy. Wasn’t Stackhouse an “inspirational team leader’’? Wasn’t Devean George a “respected veteran’’?

    The fact is, winning builds chemistry. And losing ruins it.

    Here’s to the former.

     DONUT 6: In the end, even after The Summer of Nuclear Winter, plenty of teams are still carrying the full 15 players. Steiny Mo points out that 18 of the 30 teams are full-up.

     Of course, TSONW is still in play ... because that means 12 teams ARE NOT carrying as many players as the league allows.

     DONUT 7: Finally we move on to the regular season. It’s serious … and you might want to dress the part. … in your DallasBasketball.com T-shirts! At tonight’s opener against the Wizards, you will see folks wearing them. (Especially the “DallasBasketball.com classic’’ and “The UberMan.’’) Heck, maybe I oughta wear one. (They go beautifully with a suit.)

     Wouldn’t you like to see those same folks see you wearing one?

    DONUT 8: Kevin Durant’s brother doesn’t much like Oklahoma Shitty.

    Listen, Twitter doesn’t kill reputations. People kill reputations. But that doesn’t mean that maybe sports should force jocks to pass some sort an IQ test before they are allowed to get an account.

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    DONUT 10: No Antawn Jamison tonight. We know that. Then, later in the week, it’s the Clippers and apparently no Blake Griffin?

   Yes, the Clippers are jinxed. 

    DONUT 11: Twitter me! Follow me and the Mavs at twitter.com/fishsports

   DONUT 12: ESPN employees are having sex with each other? They should hire Stuart Scott to keep an eye on this.

   DONUT 13: Shaq is having trouble figuring out the Cavs’ playbook. What’s so hard to understand about ‘Give it to LeBron’?