We need a bruiser!

[Dahlsim]

I don't think its just the Clipper game. Being out bullied on the inside has been a problem all season. It was just more obvious in the Clipper game. Mainly because this had a playoff type intensity to it. This is who we would have to face in the playoffs. With this current group, the results would not be in our favor. We need to add some muscle on the inside or this season is going to be all about development and that's it.

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Really I think the two losses to New York exposed this issue. The Knicks have 4 guys who are each tougher than our whole team put together. Randle, Portis, Morris, Gibson. They punked us. They out muscled us.

Our team is full of nice guys. No edge.  Just like the Mavs teams before Stevenson and Chandler.  This current core with Luka and KP will have to be surrounded with a few junkyard dog types before they can go to the next level.  Euros will always (unfairly) get a soft label in the NBA, and will need to be surrounded by guys the other teams don't want to mess with.  I mentioned Portis. He almost killed Mirotic, his own teammate. During a practice.  He punked Luka in that 2nd game against the Knicks. We need a a few guys like that on our side.

Good observations. 

Problem is this isn't the Carlisle/Mavs style of player for the most part.  Dallas doesn't see that type of player and doesn't really make high use of the one's they get that are even close to that, especially on the front line.

That's mostly why Dallas doesn't have them.   Boban, a gentle giant but still at least a giant, gets used sparingly and when he's in the game they don't really shove him down the opponents throat inside repeatedly.  They mostly seem to run their normal offense so the opponent doesn't get pounded inside or get into heavy foul trouble except from Luka bring it to the rim consistently.  
Of course the Clippers and top defensive teams just rough Luka up, something that is harder to do with a Boban or some other beefy tough Maverick which the roster doesn't really have.