(11-25-2022, 10:17 AM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: This is the top 3-man lineup in the entire league.

This is a transition year as we wait for the Knicks pick to convey but this team has talent and Kidd has been fiddling with stuff to figure out what this board has been screaming about for weeks at the cost of 3 to 5 wins in my opinion.  Last year's squad had the issue of poor shooting and Covid at the start of the season and turned it around and this year squad is dealing with the same shooting woes but now it's paired with odd rotations.  Kidd's latest post game presser certainly points to Wood starting this weekend though.

(11-25-2022, 10:25 AM)mvossman Wrote: Lasts years team was also dealing with a struggling Luka who didn't get back to MVP shape until later in the season.  It's very concerning we are struggling this much with Luka playing at an MVP level.  It seems clear that Wood/Green are our only chance of getting back to as good as we were last year.

(11-25-2022, 10:25 AM)mvossman Wrote: Lasts years team was also dealing with a struggling Luka who didn't get back to MVP shape until later in the season.  It's very concerning we are struggling this much with Luka playing at an MVP level.  It seems clear that Wood/Green are our only chance of getting back to as good as we were last year.

(11-25-2022, 10:31 AM)Kammrath Wrote: AMEN. Last year is nothing like this year because of this fact. Luka (the most important player who lifts the boats of everyone else) is way different this year than last.

(11-25-2022, 10:17 AM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: This is the top 3-man lineup in the entire league.

This is a transition year as we wait for the Knicks pick to convey but this team has talent and Kidd has been fiddling with stuff to figure out what this board has been screaming about for weeks at the cost of 3 to 5 wins in my opinion.  Last year's squad had the issue of poor shooting and Covid at the start of the season and turned it around and this year squad is dealing with the same shooting woes but now it's paired with odd rotations.  Kidd's latest post game presser certainly points to Wood starting this weekend though.

(11-25-2022, 03:49 PM)sefant Wrote: yes and no. And too much ISO offense has been a bigger problem i guess. Luka 1st and 2nd half are two vastly different players. Coaching staff has to diversify the offense.

1st half -> 63.6 TS %
2nd half -> 56.9 TS %

1st half Luka net rating -> 17.9
2nd half Luka net rating -> -8.7

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Offense as a team 1st half: 2nd in the league
Offense as a team 2nd half: 27th in the league

(11-25-2022, 05:57 PM)IamDougieFresh Wrote: If we let Wood cook in the first half it will make it much easier for Luka to break the bad teams in the 3rd and battle good teams in the 4th.

(11-25-2022, 03:49 PM)sefant Wrote: yes and no. And too much ISO offense has been a bigger problem i guess. Luka 1st and 2nd half are two vastly different players. Coaching staff has to diversify the offense.

1st half -> 63.6 TS %
2nd half -> 56.9 TS %

1st half Luka net rating -> 17.9
2nd half Luka net rating -> -8.7

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Offense as a team 1st half: 2nd in the league
Offense as a team 2nd half: 27th in the league

(11-25-2022, 06:46 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: It is worrisome in two of the last three games not only are they continuing to play Luka the full third quarter, but they feel like they need to play him to start the fourth.   That smells of desperation.   I would love to be a fly on the wall this summer when this front office was discussing the roster.    They couldn't see this coming???

(11-26-2022, 08:23 PM)IamDougieFresh Wrote: think that we have the potential of a top 5 team in the west that is being incredibly mismanaged.

(11-26-2022, 08:23 PM)IamDougieFresh Wrote: Ah yes. The Sacramento Kings are literally better than us timeline. Awesome.

Jokes aside, I don’t think and never did think that we have a championship roster. I fed o think that we have the potential of a top 5 team in the west that is being incredibly mismanaged.

(11-26-2022, 08:48 PM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: And they are starting to realize how important Brunson was. If he were still here, I believe they wouldn't be hovering around .500

(11-26-2022, 09:44 PM)IamDougieFresh Wrote: The Mavs’ problems are so bad right now that I’m agreeing with pretty much everything Kamm posts.

(11-26-2022, 09:44 PM)IamDougieFresh Wrote: Mavs to start the off-season correctly identified that they need a wing player. They then proceeded to blunder their way into needing a creator. Now they need a creator, wing and one of the decent vet min bigs.

They proceeded to sign JaVale fucking McGee. Lmfaoooooo

Also, there were a shocking low amount of posters who called out the 3rd creator problem. Some still have not done so. It has been now been proven that something as simple as a few quick fouls on Dinwiddie can completely derail a game.

Shout out to KillerLeft for being the most passionate to call this out.

The Mavs’ problems are so bad right now that I’m agreeing with pretty much everything Kamm posts.