ROSTER TALK: Mavs favs for Vogel if no HC job exists. Kyrie handshake deal?

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I believe we will win the championship this season. The last two games, were all about Luka being tired and it was mismanagement from Kidd how much he played him, and in the particular way he carried the load. Before the last two games, I dont see another team in the league that can easy beat us, on contrary. We should and could have won all games by that point essentially.

I think if you look at Luka, DFS, Maxi, RB THJ. all of those guys can shoot way better than they started the season, and will with more minutes as history shows. Its absolutely the worst they can perform. So I expect us to do a lot better in the end of season than right now. The last two games will also become a lesson for Kidd not to overuse Luka, and hopefully will lead in tweaks in plays and design how Luka is used, for the better.

Either the team, and especially Kidd, learns from this and gets better. Or not, and becomes worse. I believe we get better from this knowledge.

Its incredible how bad we shoot as a team from 3 being so wide open. I feel at times I could make some of those open shots.

Also, we have seen that Wood is really important with Brunson not being here. Its no coincidence that Luka looked suddenly tired now than when Wood was on the team taking some load away.

I can tell that you are an optimist.  And that's a good thing!  I sort of agree with you--especially about the load management for Luka.  But I'm also concerned about Kidd's management of the team during games.  The parallels to Avery seem warranted.  I thought Avery was a good gym coach, but a bad in-game coach.  Avery's ego seemed to get in the way sometimes.  

Kidd's personality always seemed to be that of a man who probed the edges of right or wrong, good or bad.  If he could do it...he would.  If he didn't get caught, it was ok.  I was hoping that his ego had been moderated over the years, but I fear not.

I do agree that Luka is tired.  Possibly hungover, or partied too much--as some (one) have postulated.  But, at the very least...tired.  I also agree that Wood is, or could be, very important.  Unfortunately it looks like the management of Wood by Kidd almost assures that he will be moving on at the end of the season.

Of course I don't know what goes on behind scenes.  But I have a long history of being stupidly wrong for most of my life...so I can recognize it when I see it...