11-15-2023, 07:42 PM
(11-15-2023, 07:46 AM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Powell has only played more than 15 MPG in a play-off series once in his whole Mavs career. It´s not like the coaches trusted him, when it really mattered. The Mavs were just a team of overachieving regular season specialists for the last 12 years. Everybody knew their overall talent level was never sufficient to do anything in the play-offs. This team might be different due to the massive difference Luka being in shape and Kyrie being well behaved could make.
Some things though are still lacking and size/athletism are a huge part of it.
Love Seth Curry, but he doesn´t even look like a steal at $4M. He looks like an 33 year old undersized SG that doesn´t have the quickness to get his shot off against longer players. He´s shooting 25% from the field and 17% from three. He´s virtually unplayable at the moment. I´d like to see some AJ Lawson in those situations. He clearly gains nothing from playing G-League anymore. Shot 59/50/100 in his seasonal debut there. He´s a career 40% 3pt shooter in the NBA too on a limited sample size. Right now the bar is playing better defense than Seth Curry and shooting better than 25/17/83.
The problem with Powell playoff usage during the WCF run is that he was starting and going against starting units, which is not ideal. Its not like we had a lot of choice. For all the grumbling folks are doing regarding our lack of size (mostly legit) its crazy how undersized that team was. Our big rotation was Powell/Maxi. That was it. There was not another big on the roster.
Curry is looking like our worst signing this last offseason. I was a little worried given it looked like he might already be falling off a cliff last season. I think part of that signing was due to his history with Dallas, Luka and Kyrie.