Game 33: Mavs @ Kings

[Chicagojk]

Just awful. Mavs look so slow out there.

I don’t complain about the coach hardly ever but is it too much apt ask for the coach to do something when Dallas is turning the ball over all the time? How about is there any plan on offense besides individual creation. I hate the your time, my time offense. I really like Nembhard but should the offense be him trying to create offense like Luka did? How about some cutting, off ball movement, sets? That is how Nembhard should play. Not him looking to create and then teams letting him shoot 18 footers when nothing else is happening

Flagg finished strong but a very sloppy game overall from him and he was one of the reasons why they got off to a slow start.

Overall a nice game for team tank but this team should be better. Very sloppy.

[Chicagojk]

Here is an interesting question: does Kidd want and should he be the rebuilding coach?

At this point I´m thinking Hardy must be shagging Kidd´s twin daughters. He´s literally the only player Kidd refuses to play despite a +12.4 on/off this year.

I am about two weeks behind locked on Mavs podcasts, but they brought up a scary proposition.  They said originally the plan was for Kidd to move into the front office when him and Nico was still around.  They had no inside intel input was wondering if the interim gm was because it would be Kidd taking that position this summer and the Mavs would have a coaaching search and not a gm search. They speculated you can’t have the interim gm make the big trade when they don’t live with it afterwards, but said what happens if Kidd is the gm.  Sort of scary.

[Mavs2021]

I am about two weeks behind locked on Mavs podcasts, but they brought up a scary proposition.  They said originally the plan was for Kidd to move into the front office when him and Nico was still around.  They had no inside intel input was wondering if the interim gm was because it would be Kidd taking that position this summer and the Mavs would have a coaaching search and not a gm search. They speculated you can’t have the interim gm make the big trade when they don’t live with it afterwards, but said what happens if Kidd is the gm.  Sort of scary.

If they make Kidd the GM, I might ask for Nico back.  After you committed franchise suicide by trading Luka you kill yourself again. 

[F Gump]

I am about two weeks behind locked on Mavs podcasts, but they brought up a scary proposition.  They said originally the plan was for Kidd to move into the front office when him and Nico was still around.  They had no inside intel input was wondering if the interim gm was because it would be Kidd taking that position this summer and the Mavs would have a coaaching search and not a gm search. They speculated you can’t have the interim gm make the big trade when they don’t live with it afterwards, but said what happens if Kidd is the gm.  Sort of scary.

The idea that Kidd wants the job makes good clickbait. He seemed to have that mindset early in his coaching career. But I'm not convinced he really wants that anymore, and we've seen nothing like that from him for many years, so I don't see any legs to the idea.  

In fact, pretty much the opposite.

There's been nothing in Kidd's resume to make anyone think he's a future GM. "Coaching" is his area of expertise. He's signed to be a coach for a while longer. His past roster choices have been kinda meh. And there's nothing in the Mavs situation to make anyone think they are eager to get another less-than-expert GM to make the roster-building choices as they move forward from the Nico Fiasco.

[FireNicoHarrison]

I hope Kidd time here is over.

[Chicagojk]

Cooper's stats looked good last night, but I don't think he played particularly well.

What I find interesting, is Cooper has been very efficient mostly. You would think adding a player playing so well at such a young age that others would step up and really make this team better. For the most part, that has not happened. It seems like Cooper is carrying a group of old, tired horses. That is surprising to me. I would have thought adding a young, exciting, productive, efficient player that this would really rise the rest of the players. It has not happened so far.

[Winter]

Cooper's stats looked good last night, but I don't think he played particularly well. 

What I find interesting, is Cooper has been very efficient mostly.  You would think adding a player playing so well at such a young age that others would step up and really make this team better.  For the most part, that has not happened.  It seems like Cooper is carrying a group of old, tired horses.  That is surprising to me.  I would have thought adding a young, exciting, productive, efficient player that this would really rise the rest of the players.  It has not happened so far.

Agree, the only bright spot being Naji really. There's going to need to be other tweaks to this lineup.

[KillerLeft]

Cooper's stats looked good last night, but I don't think he played particularly well. 

What I find interesting, is Cooper has been very efficient mostly.  You would think adding a player playing so well at such a young age that others would step up and really make this team better.  For the most part, that has not happened.  It seems like Cooper is carrying a group of old, tired horses.  That is surprising to me.  I would have thought adding a young, exciting, productive, efficient player that this would really rise the rest of the players.  It has not happened so far.

I think it's pretty easy to see what's not working. You only have to watch a few games. MOST of the Mavs' players want the ball with a live dribble, heading downhill, from about 17' in, very close to the basket. That's how Flagg plays...PJW, Marshall. Heck, even Williams, really, though he's more comfortable than those others starting above the break. This Mavericks offense has become about FORCING drives, even when the drives head straight into the teeth of the defense. The paint is always packed, and the guys I list above (plus cutters like AD, Powell, Gafford, Christie and anyone on the first list who happens not to have the ball) are all trying to get there anyway. Sometimes, they're able to force a situation that leads to them getting fouled, but not often enough to sustain offense that way. The team is doing absolutely nothing to generate 3's, and in fact most of the guys I mentioned above seem scared to shoot them. Consequently, there is no longer space for those drives/cuts the players mentioned want to create. Everyone seems to understand that to beat Dallas, you just have to pack the paint. 

I don't know if this is more a problem of the offensive system being run or the players they have running it, but either way, there is way too much overlap in skill sets on the offensive end for my liking. If I was running this team, I'd be desperate for ball-handling that was a threat to score, and a metric ton of SHOOTING. Give any TWO of those guys I mentioned (Flagg being one) space to operate, and this offense would be so much more fun to watch, and have a much better chance of finding success, imo.