What is going on with the Mavs?

[FunkBoreland]

Something else, that being rebounding and execution.

I'm reminiscent of a couple things from:

1.         Mavs history of putting Small Forwards as Power Forwards and PF as tweener Centers. From back to the days of Shawn Marion as the PF, to Dejuan Blair as C, to Harrison Barnes as the 4 (his playing better being the 3 in Sacramento) to now. Which features DFS at the 4, and having to put hybrid PF/C as more towards the Center role (Powell and Maxi). While Rick believes that the post up is dead, he might as well say rebounding isn't important. This is a stat I'm missing very much of our retired Dirk, while not being athletic, he finesse his way to the rebound. Our players seem to look at the ball and wait for it to come to them rather than go for the rebound no matter what.
   
2.      Nate Hinton. Yeah, I'm thinking of the scrub. Just because I miss his tenacity. While being a preseason game, he targeted a loose ball off the rim like a missile. If his shot missed from mid court jump shot, he would run to tip it back in. From the Lakers game, there was quite a few plays where an off ball players sees the teammate shoot and while the ball is in the air already motions towards the other side of the court. I understand you want to set your players in defense, but if the shot isn't falling, you got to have a couple players that will stay in the half court and look for a second chance point.
   

Everybody else has made good observations. However, KP is already a recurring issue from last season and a poorly condition Luka is playing at 70-80% but he hasn't lost his BBIQ.