The Dallas Mavericks have had a rough season so far. With a quarter of the year gone, the Mavs are sitting at the bottom of the Western Conference with a 5-18 record.
Mavs’ owner Mark Cuban does not think this is a factor of the team construction, however. Instead, he’s putting a lot of stock in the team being good if they were not nursing so many injuries. In doing so, he compared his squad to the 2015-16 Dallas Cowboys who finished the year at 4-12 due to the turnstyle at quarterback with Tony Romo injured.
Following via Tim MacMahon of ESPN:
“We’re kind of where the Cowboys were last year — high hopes and then injuries. So hopefully we’ll have the same kind of results in the draft.”
Here’s all the differences between the two squads:
The Cowboys looked like a solid team in the very short stretches Romo played in 2015. The year before, they had won a playoff game and looked like one of the better teams in the NFL before barely losing to the Packers in controversial fashion. Finally, the Cowboys have built the foundation of their team through the draft for years, so even after a down year, they had plenty of young talent on the team.
Now here’s all the similarities between the Cowboys and Mavs:
They play in Dallas. Their owners talk a lot.
Until Mark Cuban and the Mavs prove that they can rebuild through the draft, it’s really difficult to compare them to this iteration of the Cowboys.
