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The Mavericks were 3-1 this past week and moved to 12th place in the West, but are just two games back of 10th. They lost to Denver (118-109) before beating Utah twice (144-122, 138-120) and then traveled to New York, where they dismantled the Knicks (114-97). Max Christie led the team in scoring this with 24 points per game. P.J. Washington and Daniel Gafford played in just one of the four games due to ankle injuries and personal reasons. Cooper Flagg missed two games with an ankle sprain as well, while Max Christie missed two with an illness. Kyrie Irving (knee) and Anthony Davis (finger) remain out. Grade: A- The Mavericks had a good week! They lost to a Denver team that got its key pieces (other than Nikola Jokic) back recently, but ran the table after that. Both wins against Utah came in bizarre blowouts, where the Jazz looked like they didn’t care about hiding their attempt to tank. Then, with whiffs of January 25th, 2010, Dallas blew the Knicks out of the water in one of the most shocking wins in recent memory. It was a double-digit spread in the Knicks’ favor, but the game was over by halftime. Max Christie hit six threes in the first half, leading the Mavericks to 75 points and a 28-point halftime lead. It was never close, and the Knicks looked helpless against a Dallas team that had Dwight Powell and Moussa Cisse as its only two available centers. Naji Marshall continues to be incredible. He averaged 20.3 points and 4.3 assists this week and did not cool off, shooting 54.2 percent from the field. Brandon Williams played marvelously, scoring 16.5 points a night in electrifying fashion. A lot of guys, including Dwight Powell, stepped up with regular starters out of the lineup. With games against the Warriors, Lakers, and Bucks this upcoming week, it was good to gain momentum before the schedule toughens up. Straight A’s: Jason Kidd As much as Jason Kidd frustrates fans to no end with his experimental style, the one thing you cannot take away from him is his ability to get guys to play hard. The Mavericks started four different starting lineups in as many games and won their last three by an average of 19 points. Caleb Martin, who averaged less than three points in 47 games for Dallas before this week, looked serviceable in a starting role and even scored 14 points against Utah. The 144 points last Thursday against the Jazz were the 10th most points in franchise history, and they did it with no Cooper Flagg and 10 different guys playing 20-plus minutes. Hell, they signed Jeremiah Robinson-Earl the day of that game, and got 55 solid minutes from him in three subsequent appearances. Dallas’ goal of pairing Flagg with a top-five pick in this upcoming draft is in jeopardy, simply because this team will not lie down while Kidd is at the helm. Currently Failing: Jaden Hardy Unfortunately, it is so over for Jaden Hardy. In three blowout wins this week against Utah and New York, games in which the Mavericks won by 22, 18, and 17 points, Hardy was a team-worst minus-13 and shot 37.9 percent from the floor. He has not played much this season, but with opportunity presenting itself via the injury bug, he completely dropped the ball. Hardy was given the starting nod in chapter one of the series against Utah, and the fact that he did not start the second installment while playing just 17 minutes total in that game should tell you everything you need to know. The following two-minute appearance against the Knicks seems to signal that Kidd is done with the fourth-year guard. I don’t blame him; I have had enough of watching him. Extra Credit: Klay Thompson Klay Thompson shooting the ball is a beautiful thing. The beauty increases tenfold when the shots go in, and did they ever this week. Thompson hit 18 of his 38 threes (47.4 percent) and 25 of his 50 shots (50 percent). He went nuclear in the first half of the Saturday matinee against the Jazz, scoring all 23 of his points in just 14 minutes. At times, Thompson plays like he is on…

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Darryn Peterson has become more and more the talk of the basketball world. Peterson, the Kansas freshman who turned 19, entered the basketball season as the presumptive No. 1 pick in the 2026 NBA draft. The 6’5 combo-guard is averaging an absurd 22 points on 50% from the field and a resounding 40% from the three-point line. Not only is he a ridiculous scorer, but he’s also averaging 4.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists, along with an insane 32.9 PER rating. Peterson was a top high school basketball prospect who attended several schools, including Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy in Ohio, Huntington Prep in West Virginia, and finally Prolific Prep in Napa, California, where he finished his senior year, becoming the 2025 Naismith High School Player of the Year before committing to the University of Kansas. After coming in as the favorite to go number 1 in June’s draft, Peterson’s college career started shaky with a pulled hamstring, sidelining Peterson for nine of Kansas’ first 14 games of the season. Peterson returned to the lineup full-time on January 3rd and has played in every game since, scoring fewer than 20 just once since his return. His play, including most recently a 30-point night on 11-for-13 shooting against Baylor, has led the talk around Peterson in basketball communities and online circles to grow, and deservingly so. People online have made comparisons to Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, and even Michael Jordan. One Kansas fan said that he will be a fringe All-NBA player by year 4 in the league. Peterson is one of the best guard prospects basketball has ever seen, and there is simply no denying that. But there is a serious question about whether a player this young, who has played so little basketball, can meet the expectations being placed on him. This conversation must start with the obvious: YES, Darryn Peterson deserves hype, a lot of it. The reason is simply that it’s rare to see a guy at 18, now 19, with that kind of NBA body and the shot-making ability. He’s pretty comfortably 1.01 in this class if he’s not medically red-flagged. In a guards league, a guy who can step and average between 15 and 20 points a night provides a high floor for any prospect. Combine that with his insane defensive prowess, elite athleticism, and high IQ, and you have a can-not-miss prospect. But prospects as elite as this are still prospects, not guarantees. Peterson has shades of all the excellent guard prospects to come out, including Luka Doncic, Anthony Edwards, and Cade Cunningham. The best comparison for Peterson I have seen is John Wall, one of the most explosive players in college basketball history. The 6’4 combo-guard was also the clear number one pick from his shifty scoring and can’t miss athleticism, along with being described as “one of the best defensive point guards in the league when healthy” per HoopsHype from 2010. Wall also heavily relied on PNR actions, making his playmaking potential more intriguing to scouts. Peterson is also an elite on- and off-ball skilled scorer who has been a top defensive prospect at every level, and he became a standout PNR creator in his last year and a half of HS. Guys like Luka, Edwards, and even Cunningham were not coming into the draft with as high a defensive IQ or Motor as Wall did, and Peterson does. What sets Peterson apart is his elite and ridiculous shot-making. The closest pure scorer that comes close to Peterson out of college is Kyrie Irving. While Irving only played in 11 games in college and did not average the 22 that Peterson does, the tough shot-making is what got Irving taken at number one, despite the injury. Irving averaged 17.5 points in college on a similar 55% from the field, 40% from the 3-point line, just as Peterson is doing now. Irvings’ scoring also looks like Peterson’s, two players who get to their spots and can work on or off the ball in isolation or off screens, manipulating the…

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