SL Game 1: Dallas Mavericks vs. GS Warriors | 6:00PM CST | ESPN

[OldMavsFan]

Hopefully he improves in the coming games but that's not a one game observation.  Last season he was in the Harden, SGA, Doncic, Brunson range of seconds/dribbles per touch. Unless you are an elite iso scorer you have no business dominating the ball like this.

I got the feeling watching Ryan, that he had spent the summer watching Brunson in the play-offs and decided to me his mini me, I get some point to his assists, but when you run the shot clock down to under 8 seconds dribbling the ball and finally have to pass it and that player happens to shot and score who really cares.  Assist aren't what they used to be and just passing to a guy 25 feet from the rim that is open and they score isn't didn't seem to be counted as an assist.  He only passed the ball down court to a player running out once for sure and maybe one more time, but otherwise he just dribbled around. Now the other issue is he just isn't big enough or quick enough to guard anybody, but he can tell you the number of the player who just blew by him as he follows them into the lane. I don't think he can get the ball up court against the Spurs guards in under 8 seconds.  He isn't a horrible player, but he isn't long, a good defender and plays slow, so how does he fit with the way the Mavs are planning to play this year?

OK, I will give him a bit of slack on being the first time he had played with the others, but they also need some slack since I don't think they had a clue that he was going to slow the game down to dribble around and it's not like he hadn't been playing organized ball this summer, wasn't he playing for Canada and should have been in game shape.

I got a kick out of the ESPN, depth cart for the Mavs before the game, Lively the starting center, who can barely walk and Ryan as the back up PG. Ryan may be able to do OK against the lottery teams but shouldn't see the court against the top teams.