2024 Playoffs- 2nd Round: Oklahoma City Thunder - Dallas Mavericks- MAVS WIN 4-2!

[KillerLeft]

The elephant in the room is Hardaway.

Kidd will give him minutes. The positive side of me says Hardaway will likely understand that his defense will be critical, and that he has to be a two-way player to get his minutes. He will also need to make a few of those shots he didn't make in the second half of the season.

Hardaway is more important than he should be - or that I wish he was. But the fact is that we don't have much offensive horsepower on the bench and we really do need him in this series. No one in our playoff rotation has real NBA playoff experience except him now that Kleber is out.

I missed this post until OBX quoted it. But, yes! This is where I am, too. 

Kleber WAS the team's bench scoring in round 1. That's important, because he's gone. Who, but Hardaway, has any chance of filling that void (and frankly, improving upon it in an ideal version of the near future). 

Do I think he'll be successful in this series? No idea, his last month of the season was BAD. But, I feel like we have no choice but to hope.