GAME 8: TOR (5-4) @ DAL (5-3) | 111-110 win

[dirkfansince1998]

Unless you have an athletic freak involved (like Mobley, for example), more than 50% of the lineups you'll face in today's NBA will dictate that you're really better off playing 1 big for long stretches of the game. I'd suggest that in the playoffs, this phenomenon gets even more glaring. 

For the Mavs those lineups work because Kleber (and to a lesser degree Powell) can defend most matchups on the perimeter. Meaning that even though they are technically bigs they might as well be listed as oversized wings if they play next to another big.
Problem is that the wing skill set is limited to the defensive end. As we saw last night. When Kleber managed to step out of bounds three times when he tried to floor the ball. Missed two driving layups after he attacked the close out.
Not to even mention Powell who is disqualified from any non center minutes on offense because he cannot shoot. Making it even more difficult to find touches for Wood. Who ends up as the floor spacer.

Don´t have the time right now but it might be worth it to look at a correlation between Powell´s minutes and Wood´s usage. People complained about the low amount of FGA he had in the last couple of games. Could this be about the amount of minutes he plays next to traditional bigs?