05-19-2021, 05:35 PM
(05-19-2021, 09:58 AM)sefant Wrote: Those stats are kinda nuts. Mavs have the 4th best record in the league against .500 teams. 3rd best in the West behind Utah/Suns.
https://twitter.com/HPbasketball/status/...8275060737
https://twitter.com/HPbasketball/status/...3486259203
Clippers Fans think getting rid of Lou is a plus for them. I guess we will see.
The exchanges of Lou for Rondo and Doc for Lue seem like major minuses to me. But I haven’t been studying the Clips.
The Mavs, however, I’ve been watching. And I hafta wonder how much of their struggles against poor teams is about being built to contend with the spread offenses—Warrior-style stuff that has taken over the top half of the league. Seems to me it’s the old-school teams, who play a bruising inside game, that Mavs have struggled with. Think Julius Randle types. Even guards who play physical are a struggle for us.
But teams that play old-style aren’t in the top tier of the league, with perhaps the exception of Philly, who beat us by 14 and 18 in 2 tries this season.
Just a theory. I don’t buy that Mavs don’t care about the lesser matchups.