Mavs 109, Knicks 117

[Mavs2021]

120.6 DRating in the last 4 games....NBA worst DRating this year is SAC with 117.7. 

So yeah...


The shooting has been BAD no doubt, but the D has been worse IMO and the ultimate culprit. They have a little time to right the ship, but right now they are a team that is more than stumbling toward the playoffs.

I would assume the reason is that the Mavs don´t utilize their squad enough, because (I apologize in advance) Carlisle is simply not good finding minute openings. He stays with starters too long at the end of won or lost games. He doesn´t mix weaker players with stronger units to learn from playing with better players, but hide them at the same time in useful minutes. He doesn´t use weaker players against tanking teams or in situations with huge leads.

It drives me nuts that every pre-season he doesn´t allow the rookies to mix and match with the top rotation. Always splits them like they are not belonging on the same team. Bey´s energy and rim-running would be more useful off the ball, if he played with Doncic and Porzingis rather than Hinton and Powell in garbage minutes.

Last 10 games

Reddick 45 minutes total
Burke 35 minutes total
Boban 32 minutes total
Green 31 minutes total
WCS 10 minutes total
Hinton 8 minutes total
Bey 7 minutes total
Terry 0 minutes total

That´s nearly half the roster, who over a 10 games stretch played less than 5 MPG.

If you look at rookies MPG, ours are amongst the league´s worst. In terms of total minutes:

They outplay 1-2 players drafted ahead of them. 
They get outplayed by 10-15 players drafted behind them.

And that´s with near 100% health availability (whatever might be going on with Terry)