What is going on with the Mavs?

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Thanks for the work!


The ones that really stand out to me are Maxi (almost all threes, no shots in the paint), and DFS (69% threes). (Hardaway plays like a guard, even if he is nominally a SF, so I don't include his 59% threes as an aberration.)

Any conclusion as to whether this is a directed strategy, a result of opposing defenses, or just random?

I would say it’s partially strategy and partly personnel.  I just don’t think the Mavs have guys that are good at creating for themselves and have to rely on Luka too much.  I would defer to others that are much smarter than me but I wonder if the low mid range numbers might suggest that if you can run them off the line, they will just re-rack with Luka again.  It will give me something else to watch for next week.

One more point of clarification is that the totals are only for the players listed and not the entire team.