The start of every season brings absolute agony and absolute ecstasy, sometimes nearly side by side in brief flickering moments from game to game. Each play holds all the potential and all the futility of the season ahead. As fans it is a real test of how full or empty you see the glass in front of you.
This is the return of The Good and the Bad, a series looking at the little (and sometimes big) things that make up a Mavericks season. The shape of this Dallas Mavericks team, and what they will be this season, is still undetermined.