12-17-2023, 03:35 AM
(12-16-2023, 11:26 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Ayton was bad. Few quick buckets to start the game and then nothing. I mentioned in the offseason that I was up in the air on him. I really though he wound come into the season with a chip on his shoulder. Very passive. Mavs may have dodged a bullet there.
I mentioned a few games ago that Morris wasn’t an nba rotation player any longer. The last few games he has looked very good. He will be a deep bench piece when everyone is healthy but I don’t think we win tonight if we finished the fourth with Powell. That is not a slight at Powell either but he wasn’t very good out there. Morris just made a lot of plays on offense.
Another good game by Exum. Sort of surprised he was not in the closing lineup over Grant. Grant another questionable performance.
Yeah Ayton just doesn´t seem to have it mentally. It´s not that he can´t do it. He just does not want to do it. He´s like a center Josh Green. He had 10/7 with two assists and two steals for a team best +1, but he took only five shots, though there was literally nobody on the Mavs that could stop him.
Agreed on the Morris/Powell analysis. Powell objectively looks done. He´s 32 years old and he has no skills to fall back on that don´t really on effort and energy. Maybe the shorter than usual summer cooked him. Morris hit 2-3 wide open mid range jumpers off the Luka double team that Powell simply cannot make. Defensively they were both cones. I think with a PJ Washington like PF and a better back-up center, we might be in business.