(06-13-2021, 03:31 PM)mavsluvr Wrote: Thanks for compiling these stats. Very thought-provoking!
Another way to look at those +/- stats is that Ty Lue and the Clippers emphasizing their best small team, not necessarily their smallest small team, allowed to essentially take Mavs #2 & #3 offensive players, THJ and Brunson, effectively out of the series. The Clippers ended up playing relatively big skilled wings changing the dynamic from games 1 & 2 in LA.
Brunson had sort of become the #3 and times even #2 behind Luka with THJ most often putting up a big game offensively.
TJH I noticed stopped getting as many good looks from 3 and started taking tougher or longer 3's or trying to score inside the arc where he's meh, not at all elite.
Its a case of small ball is fine as long as my small ball team is better than your small team. Man for man the Mavs were most decidedly not better small vs small so Carlisle rightly went Big vs small. Arguably the +/- suggest that he might have come closer to winning the series, esp. in Game 6 if he had really committed even more to that strategy in terms of both minutes and offensive distribution.