02-04-2020, 01:07 PM
(02-04-2020, 10:36 AM)Scott41theMavs Wrote: As I said in the Mavs news thread, I think a lot of the burden is actually on Luka. I want him to watch how KP and the others play without him. It's excellent basketball. If he can learn how to play that style as the lead facilitator and scorer, it raises the team's quality and ceiling big-time.
Moreover, if he learns to trust his teammates more, he can expend more energy on defense, which will also serve to raise the team's ceiling.
It's a bit of a puzzle to solve, right? Luka scores and assists at such a high rate of efficiency based on his drives to the basket that it makes sense for that to be a lynch pin of the offense. It may be that his toward the basket game can be merged somehow with the motion offense that the supporting cast has been running. However, I don't think I have a big enough basketball brain to speculate on the nuts and bolts of that merging. I sure would love for Rick to write us an essay on it though.