Things are looking very rough for Dallas. We're within our rights as Pistons fans to be disappointed with the fact that our team hasn't done more with the opportunities in front of them (probably should have made two more finals trips and won at least one more title), but man, it's hard out there for a Mavs fan. Going back to at least 2003, they were a good-but-not-great team for several years that looked it might not be able to get over the hump, and then when they finally broke through to the finals, they choked it away in horribly dispiriting fashion. They followed that up with one of the most embarrassing first-round upset losses in league history, and then they mortgaged a lot of their future for a rapidly aging PG, only to see him getting dominated now by a brilliant young star at the same position. Barring what would be an extremely surprising turnaround in this series, Cuban is going to be under considerable pressure to blow everything up. And let's remember that all this has happened without their being able to win a title.