2019-20 Mavs News

[Scott41theMavs]

I would say we have a top heavy team.

I would say that our top two rank in the top ten of top twos in the league (and certainly has the potential, given age and upside, to rocket into the top three), that our bench, when healthy, is certainly top ten, and that the rest of our starting lineup is, dead serious, bottom three in the league when compared to the healthy best-case scenarios of the other 29 teams.

Somebody please inform Cuban and Donnie that a starting lineup has five players, not two.

The Mavs #3-10 players are in the bottom 1/3 of the league as far as talent and the absolute worst of the playoff teams.

I'm with Dirkfan on this. This isn't my take. I think that the Mavs, when healthy and starting Luka-THJ-DFS-Powell-KP, are reasonably good 6-10 - Brunson-Curry-Wright-Maxi-WCS, with Burke, Boban, JJB, and MKG in the deep bench (and Jackson not playing unless they want to lose for some reason). The problem is that 1) everyone in that bench ***is*** a bench player and has no business thrust into a starting role if you want this to be a playoff team, 2) Powell is paid like an NBA starter but isn't good enough to be one, and 3) THJ and DFS, with their respective shortcomings, are competitors for the 5th best starter on a contending team - you can survive if the other four starters are clearly better - but a horror if either one has to be the 3rd and 4th best, much less both.

In short, #3-#5 is the problem. The Mavs treated the 2019 offseason as if a team with playoff aspirations didn't need to have five competent starters. Pretty sorry for us to bag on Vlade. I know the Mavs have earned a lot of capital by going for Luka and KP when the opportunities arose, but there ought to be major national writeups about what a cataclysmic epic fail the 2019 offseason was for the Mavs. It takes having gotten Luka and KP to make it conceivably forgivable in the first place.