01-21-2020, 11:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-21-2020, 11:56 PM by TurkishMFFL.)
(01-21-2020, 11:18 PM)hakeemfan Wrote: DFS is not great. But that is not the biggest problem. The problem is 3 pt shooting by Luka. I said before. The good games he has is fool’s gold. He should focus on better shots. The problem is poor defense overall. KP comes back after a long layoff and he is jacking up 3s like he has been on a hot streak. Just because defenses give you something does not mean it is a good shot.
Unfortunately RC seems to be fully on board with volume shooting 3s. This was a terrific game we should have won if we stayed away from jacking up so many 3s.
Yeah HF, I definitely agree. As much as we have a team to be proud of and having success much more than we have anticipated, there are some things that haven't changed over the course of the season and tbh there isn't any sign of change at all.
First of all, it is fair to label the team as "learning". That's fair and no shame in that. However, the team is not learning. Whatever they did a month ago is still what we see on the court. The offensive scheme is atrocious. Jacking up threes after threes is not a creative way to play this game. That is why when we play against a top or high defensive minded team, we go flat. Threes don't fall and the players wander around the court cluelessly as if there were no other option than driving and kicking the ball out.
Secondly, playing bad in the clutch is of course mainly related to the things I mentioned above, that is the lack of creativeness on offense and chuking threes. What's more, the team lacks size and hustle on defense. The opponents make some tweaks and let us chuck three after three but since we do not have any defensive presence, they score at will and run away with the win.
That has been a motto for our opponents. What has the team "learned" to overcome this issue? What has Carlisle contributed to the team in terms of whatever he kept on telling us on after game presses? He took the blame on some meltdowns and breakings in the clutch, what has changed? Nothing.
If nothing changes, you cannot talk about a "learning process". The same crap as the Dallas Cowboys did for the last few years.
Long time Mavs Fan from Turkey who wakes up in the middle of the night to watch the Mavs games.