Game 38: Dallas Mavericks (14-23) @ Utah Jazz (12-24)

[Chicagojk]

See, replace Marshall with an actual shooter, and Utah is regretting that double team. Flagg made an exceptional pass over the top of the defense. Brick city.

Good player.  Don’t think he is the fit her with cooper long term though.  I go back and forth on if I prefer Marshall or PJ.  Tough to know with questions with the rest of the roster, future salary demands and what either could bring back on trades.

Comical AD thinks he is a Pf.  Shhh..I thought he would be better at it.  It just is not a thing any longer.

[Chicagojk]

Could you imagine watching this disgrace if we didn’t have Cooper? Actually I don’t think I would be watching..

[cow]

Good player.  Don’t think he is the fit her with cooper long term though.  I go back and forth on if I prefer Marshall or PJ.  Tough to know with questions with the rest of the roster, future salary demands and what either could bring back on trades.

Comical AD thinks he is a Pf.  Shhh..I thought he would be better at it.  It just is not a thing any longer.

If Nanji's next contract is fairly close to his current one, I'd take him over PJ.  Nanji's probably my favorite current Mav, but I wouldn't be heartbroken if either he or PJ were shipped off.

[Mavs03]

This is off the top of my head, but I believe the Mavs have been behind at the end of every 1st quarter where Cooper Flagg starts at PG. Do the Mavs have an analytical department? Is it cool for the Mavs to try to rally and expend all this energy because they're behind all the time? I have no idea why Flagg starts at PG. I can understand him playing the point at various parts of the game, but why force him to play a position where he's not comfortable at in the beginning of the game. It's always an awkward and mistake-filled 1st quarter. He's a natural SF/PF. Get rid of starting Flagg at PG. It's not working.

You had the Jazz play at OKC yesterday and lost in OT. They literally got home at 4 AM this morning. And yet they score 35 points in the 1st quarter against the Mavs.

To me, that's bad coaching.

[loki]

This is off the top of my head, but I believe the Mavs have been behind at the end of every 1st quarter where Cooper Flagg starts at PG.  Do the Mavs have an analytical department?  Is it cool for the Mavs to try to rally and expend all this energy because they're behind all the time?  I have no idea why Flagg starts at PG.  I can understand him playing the point at various parts of the game, but why force him to play a position where he's not comfortable at in the beginning of the game.  It's always an awkward and mistake-filled 1st quarter.  He's a natural SF/PF.  Get rid of starting Flagg at PG.  It's not working. 

You had the Jazz play at OKC yesterday and lost in OT.  They literally got home at 4 AM this morning.  And yet they score 35 points in the 1st quarter against the Mavs.

To me, that's bad coaching.

I think Kidd understands it's not really working. He's fine with that since he sees a long term benefit to putting Flagg in that position. "It's okay to fail." It works well with the tank too.

[Chicagojk]

This is off the top of my head, but I believe the Mavs have been behind at the end of every 1st quarter where Cooper Flagg starts at PG.  Do the Mavs have an analytical department?  Is it cool for the Mavs to try to rally and expend all this energy because they're behind all the time?  I have no idea why Flagg starts at PG.  I can understand him playing the point at various parts of the game, but why force him to play a position where he's not comfortable at in the beginning of the game.  It's always an awkward and mistake-filled 1st quarter.  He's a natural SF/PF.  Get rid of starting Flagg at PG.  It's not working. 

You had the Jazz play at OKC yesterday and lost in OT.  They literally got home at 4 AM this morning.  And yet they score 35 points in the 1st quarter against the Mavs.

To me, that's bad coaching.

Yeah, not great.  It seems like they make bad teams look really good way too much this year.   

I won't watch again, but it certainly seems like AD is consistently slow back on defense.    When he is playing the 4 it is even more costly.   It just feels like this is one of the reasons for the slow starts.   He says he is a power forward but his first instinct is to run to the paint....when he gets back on defense.

[ThisIStheYear]

This is off the top of my head, but I believe the Mavs have been behind at the end of every 1st quarter where Cooper Flagg starts at PG.  Do the Mavs have an analytical department?  Is it cool for the Mavs to try to rally and expend all this energy because they're behind all the time?  I have no idea why Flagg starts at PG.  I can understand him playing the point at various parts of the game, but why force him to play a position where he's not comfortable at in the beginning of the game.  It's always an awkward and mistake-filled 1st quarter.  He's a natural SF/PF.  Get rid of starting Flagg at PG.  It's not working. 

You had the Jazz play at OKC yesterday and lost in OT.  They literally got home at 4 AM this morning.  And yet they score 35 points in the 1st quarter against the Mavs.

To me, that's bad coaching.

What makes you think the Mavs are prioritizing wins?  Cooper clearly doesn’t lose confidence overall when he struggles at the point.  Playing point in high leverage situations will probably help him in the long run. I’m okay with it at this point.

[KillerLeft]

What makes you think the Mavs are prioritizing wins?  Cooper clearly doesn’t lose confidence overall when he struggles at the point.  Playing point in high leverage situations will probably help him in the long run. I’m okay with it at this point.

I think I am, too, with the key words being "at this point." But, I'd much prefer to see him do it in lineups that give him a chance to do something with the opportunities. That's not even a dig at Kidd, really - the roster just doesn't have the right synergy at the moment unless they shelve players they can't really shelve.

[myconsumerclub]

slightly on youtube is upset and I saw on what little bit I saw on a document created off x that they are stating AD will be out for 2 months so the tank is officially now the only way to go. If I were Kyrie I would recover fully and not hurry back because there's no reason to take that kind of risk at all.

[myconsumerclub]

Good thing we have a very tough schedule the 2nd half of the season.

Looks like we are stuck with AD for a while and we still need to get a good pick this year.

I think we need to draft a 5 and a 1 since we do have Cooper at PF, Max at the 2 and Kyrie as a PG in his twilight years (the downward spiral) that being the case I would think that we need to add a center more than anything.

AD is a center but he wants to play PF and force Cooper out of his best fit at PF plus he cannot be counted on to be healthy at all and Lively is also a glass warrior.

I wanted to use this pick on a future PG to groom for when Kyrie retired and maybe I can be talked into thinking that way again because that is the right pick to make if we traded AD and got a pick, but if we go for a PG it has to be a SG / SF sized PG not a small guy since we could end up using him at the 2 next to Kyrie as the PG or SG with Kyrie at the 2.

We may need to work out strategies to do a hard reset and tank for the next 2 season if not 3.

[myconsumerclub]

Has anyone started a fire KIDD thread yet becasue it seems like we may also need to do that as well just to throw a hissy fit. I mean you know we are going to hear that noise too. Maybe not here but it could be every where else. It was him who was playing AD 36 minutes a game.

[FireNicoHarrison]

Kidd is perfect now. We are tanking. He is a bad coach. That's good.