10-29-2021, 09:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-29-2021, 09:19 AM by KillerLeft.)
(10-29-2021, 09:06 AM)mvossman Wrote: You put Frank and Brown in the same category as Brunson and Burke, but I would argue they both could play the 3 and belong in the same group as Green. I think those three guys are competing directly with each other for minutes.
Well, that’s kind of my thesis point. Can those guys play the 3? Yes, probably. But, I bet it differs from coach to coach and system to system whether they are thought of as reasonable solutions at the 3, and it seems like calling everyone a wing is the start of a slippery slope that has a lot of fans pretty confused about just how interchangeable these guys are.
The Mavericks have started the season by running a lot of set plays. Since it’s abundantly clear that those portions of the games are the ones during which the offense performs putridly, I can only assume that the decision to do this is about getting the team on the same page with some organized sets for later, when they need them. In each of the wins, they have shifted into something very similar to last season’s flow offense for long enough to get the lead, so it seems like someone making decisions understands that that is working better right now.
Given the paragraph above, it seems logical to me that players are still wanting for experience in this new system on the FIRST position they learned. My overall point is that it might be unreasonable to expect green trotted out there at his second position, which I’m guessing is the 2.
To be even more clear, I’m speculating that simply deciding to call those two positions by the same name does not mean that they aren’t going to two, different spots on the court within the flow of each set. They are still two, different positions, learned by two, different people in practice.
Green is the youngest, least experienced active player on the team in a situation where nobody on the team is 100% comfortable with the new way of doing things. My guess is that it’s going to be a while before Green is given significant minutes in a game that is in doubt.