Game 11: Dallas Mavericks (5-5) vs. Golden State Warriors (8-2) | 9:00pm CST

[Mavs2021]

It was glaring that all our good offense started with Luka off the ball and all our bad offense started with Luka bringing the ball up the floor. For one Luka is not healthy/out of shape/whatever and obviously when Luka starts the offense 90% of the time, the other team will just scout that scheme heavily. They seemed completely clueless, when Hardy, Grimes or Marshall and to a lesser extent Kyrie bring up the ball with some pace. Just take the ball out of Luka´s hands and let the others create. I´d even give Gortman some run, who has literally not missed a shot in his NBA career, while Hardy and Dinwiddie can´t throw it into the ocean currently.

I generally think we are a slower team than last year. Marshall has a slow release. Klay struggles to generate space for himself in half court sets. Hardy does not have long arms, which also creates release problems. But I feel besides Luka this is a lack of offensive schemes. Hardy is not tall, but he´s fast with a reasonably quick release, so run him around some screens like RIP, instead of parking him in the corners, where he can be closed down by lengthy SGs. Klay needs a faster pace and ball movement to trigger earlier. Marshall can generate early offense, cause he´s really good in these mid-range situations, but none of that is happening as long as slow Luka dribbles the air out the ball and he currently has no solutions due to his physical limitations.

Makes me want to puke to see Stotts on the Warriors bench as an assistant. That means Mavs didn´t want to pay for his championship winning offensive input.