2019-20 Mavs News

[ClutchDirk]

https://twitter.com/AndrewGreif/status/1...1296254980

[Hypermav]

Every little bit helps.

[omahen]

Every little bit helps.

If Mavs can't compete tomorrow with this edition of Clippers, they are really far away from contending. Bevery and Harrell out, half of team (Zubac, Shamet, Williams, Morris, ) missed at least a significant portion of bubble practice. I hope shooting comes back after two lost in space games.

[Hypermav]

I hope shooting comes back

[Hypermav]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the...en-coming/

https://stats.nba.com/teams/clutch-advanced/?sort=OFF_RATING&dir=-1

Makes you wonder how valuable a stat is when the Hornets are number 2.

[ClutchDirk]

https://twitter.com/townbrad/status/1291139350512771073

[ClutchDirk]

https://twitter.com/bobbykaralla/status/...1809417218

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https://twitter.com/coopmavs/status/1291841569063079937

[Kammrath]

https://twitter.com/bobbykaralla/status/...3899913218

[ItsGoTime]

https://twitter.com/bobbykaralla/status/...3899913218

That and going on many long win streaks are part of my barometer on how a team will fare in the playoffs. GJ guys!

[Hypermav]

https://twitter.com/townbrad/status/1293...80288?s=20

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https://twitter.com/townbrad/status/1293...30784?s=20

[ClutchDirk]

https://i.redd.it/esra8kjvkug51.jpg

[ClutchDirk]

https://twitter.com/bobbykaralla/status/...5635476481

[ItsGoTime]

^
Until we change our team up, Pho is the new GSW of the 06-07 variety.

[Hypermav]

https://theathletic.com/1996491/2020/08/...et-better/

Last September, Mavericks players arrived at training camp with a four-point line taped onto the practice facility courts. “That’s where (Carlisle) wants us spaced out,” Jackson said at the time. From the season’s beginning, spacing was emphasized verbally, systematically and, yes, with actual lines on the court visually encouraging players to set up deeper than ever before.

It was expected Delon Wright, signed that summer, would start. At the time, a team source says, Dallas had prioritized acquiring a player who could start alongside Doncic to defend opposing point guards. But while he covered Doncic defensively, Wright didn’t mesh well with him on the other end. He was a player most effective with the ball in his hands, something he had grown accustomed to throughout a career mostly spent coming off the bench. He wasn’t a good spot-up shooter. After starting every preseason match and the season opener, Wright was moved to the second unit. He started only four more games the rest of the regular season.
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In the early 2000s, when the league was stumbling through a scoring crisis threatening to turn viewers away out of sheer boredom, Rick Carlisle proposed a solution. “I had the crazy idea of making the rim bigger,” he says. If the rim’s circumference increased by half an inch, Carlisle argued, it would boost shooting percentages by 15 percent or more. 
“I mean, shit, they do different things in baseball with the pitcher’s mound,” Carlisle says. “Why not make a small adjustment in our game.”
Instead, in 2001, a committee chaired by Bryan Colangelo eliminated the hand check and replaced the illegal defense rule with the defensive three seconds rule we know today. Carlisle believes that change saved scoring. The new rules birthed help defense, which in turn boosted ball movement and prioritized shooting. “It turned out, the adjustment (needed) was the development of skill,” he says.


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It’s also worth framing this historic offense in the context of a changing league. In the early 2000s, another idea proposed to save scoring was increasing the size of the court. The idea couldn’t gain traction because, in some arenas, it wasn’t physically possible. A decade later, though, the shooting explosion had effectively done just that by forcing defenses to guard further out than ever before. And today, players are doing it again by shooting from even further distances, as though the four-point line in the Mavericks’ practice facility were real.

Dallas isn’t the offensive revolution’s endpoint. It’s just the furthest it has gone thus far. It’s remarkable that this team, with these players, is responsible for the record-setting numbers this season, but the Mavericks don’t cling to their place atop the record books with any certainty. “In five years, there will be another record,” Carlisle says. He believes the best offenses will soon reach 1.2 points per possession, or an offensive rating of 120. And just as the Mavericks broke an offensive record set just last season, they might find their own historic mark broken next year. They’ll just be disappointed if it’s any team other than them.

[DanSchwartzgan]

It was expected Delon Wright, signed that summer, would start. At the time, a team source says, Dallas had prioritized acquiring a player who could start alongside Doncic to defend opposing point guards. But while he covered Doncic defensively, Wright didn’t mesh well with him on the other end.

As we consider team needs and trades and free agency, we should bear in mind this need has not yet been met.

[Tyler]

As we consider team needs and trades and free agency, we should bear in mind this need has not yet been met.

THJ also stepped up in ways people didn't expect early in the season, and he basically permanently earned Wright's starting spot. (with DFS, Powell/Maxi, and KP usually filling out the starting 5). But I agree that a new defensive-minded guard isn't out of the question.

[Hypermav]

https://theathletic.com/1987538/2020/08/...dailyemail

Luka was 1st team
KP was 2nd team

2 top ten bubble players is not too bad.

[ClutchDirk]

https://twitter.com/KCJHoop/status/1294282320669822982

[Hypermav]

I like that the Mavs get to play prime time basketball.  I know the LA teams drive the schedule being played but still, the team gets exposure to the nation. (hopefully good)

[ClutchDirk]

https://twitter.com/DwainPrice/status/12...0023001089