HAWKS 113, MAVS 87

[hakeemfaan]

Well if you don´t change anything, Porzingis will be sad and mad. Gotta feed the big dog. That´s what this all comes down to. Porzingis is not and will never be the player, that he thinks he is, and it seems unlikely that he will ever accept that.

The only way this has any chance of working is Porzingis playing like a 3&D PF/C hybrid. He needs to be the spacing PF on offense and the center on defense. It´s also not as far to run from the 3pt line (at the top) to the own basket. He´s way too slow to set-up underneath the basket on offense and have any hope to defend the rim on defense.

Just play

Doncic
THJ
Bullock
DFS
Porzingis

The 2nd unit basically should be everybody setting screens for Brunson, so he can score for himself in the mid-range and find Kleber/S. Brown for a few threes. Also play Moses Brown in hopes that he can clean up a few offensive rebounds for cheap points.

I think Porzingis is an easy target. The question I have for everyone that is clamoring for that offense is what is the ceiling with that?  I don’t see an offense that relies so heavily on the greatness of one player being sustainable more than a couple of rounds in the playoffs. Even Bron can’t win that way. 

In the Clippers series Luka’s production in the 4th seemed to take a dip. 

Now if you are saying keep the offense the same and bring another creator, then too it is a different offense. For this team to be a legit contender we need a diversified offense where Luka has to go stretches as a decoy or play off the ball.  Keep him fresh for the 4th also.  

I am willing to give whatever Kidd is trying a chance because I just didn’t see a championship ceiling with what we were running previously though it did look great at times. The bottom line is that we had a home court game to wrap up a playoff series and came up with a terrible offensive performance.  I am not shedding too many tears for that offens.