MAVS NEWS:

[Smitty]

I think they are mostly done as well, but I can't help but have PTSD from last summer when folks were on here saying they are fine from a creation standpoint.  That we are free from Luka heliocentric basketball and now we can have more "flow" to the offense.  The Mavs are obviously better off than last year, but if you have to mention PJ (and Martin, LOL!) then we are likely going to be in for some pain.

Their plan last year never came to fruition. They planned to have DLO hold down the fort until December, for Kyrie to come back, and then they’d have both. DLO proved incapable and Kyrie played zero games. Run a lot of offense through AD, as a high usage Big. Who played very little. Develop rookie Flagg as more of on-ball player, leading to an eventual point-forward modern NBA archetype. To have Lively, who many think is capable of being an offensive hub of sorts, run more DHO’s and passing from the short roll. He played single digit games. I’m sure I’m missing some other key factors, but their entire plan was never realized. To take anything from how last year actually played out as an “I told you so”, is in bad faith IMO.