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

[sefant]

It’s Hardaway that just doesn’t have the skill set we need. Luka, Wood, Dinwiddie all do much more on offense that matters. They can all attack. Hardaway cannot and the league is moving away from those type of players. It would be ok if he did something else like handle the ball/facilitate or offensive rebounds. But he can’t do that either. Maybe we wait till the offseason and give it another playoff chance but if he were to get on a hot stretch the next month i could see it as the first domino to fall. It would make even more sense if Wood doesn’t sign his extension and we NEED to “punt” on the season to set ourselves up going forward. “Punt” and Luka still wills us to the 6th seed for a first round exit.

The major problem is this:

Luka defensive on/off minus 5

paired with

1) THJ defensive on/off plus 0.7
2) SD defensive on/off minus 7.4

And that seems fairly accurate by the eyetest. THJ found out this year that defense exist (at least for now). I guess that is the biggest compliment you can make Kidd/Sweeney over Rick, they helped several players to improve their individual D or just contributions to the team defense.

Spencer having the impact numbers he is having while starting while he is shooting light outs on the C & S and in general is also very concerning. I also don't want to find out what happens if his shooting numbers are going to dip even a few percentage points. If that happening Spencer is taking his air plane and crossing the border of Bullock/McGee country on several stats/metrics.