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

[dirkfansince1998]

That's fantastic in a vacuum.  If Luka, Kyrie, and Wood aren't our top 3 players, name yours.  A case can be made for Green, but 6.4 shot attempts isn't exactly setting the world on fire offensively.

This roster is completely void of 2-way players.  FG%+ > 2% are McGee 6.3%, Green 3.5%, Bullock 2.2%.  None of those guys can be considered a 2-way player because their offense is so not there.

Now, as a starter you get better numbers on a few (greater than 5 starts): Green 8.9%, McGee 3.6%, Bullock 3.1%.

That said Kidd should have started Luka, Kyrie, Green, Bullock, and McGee...  with Wood getting at least 32mins as 6th man.

But yes.  This team needs a defensive stud PF and SF.

That´s the point. If the roster you have build is fundamentally flawed the only way to fix it is breaking up whatever you view as your top 2/3 players. The solution wasn´t on the roster. Mavs only had two guys that made a legit impact on defense based on +/- numbers. Maxi and Frank. But as you mentioned both aren´t exactly two-way players.

Bullock declined badly. Couldn´t stay in front of anyone all season long. The McGee experiment ended nine games into the season because the Mavs couldn´t afford to give up double digit runs whenever he entered the floor.
Green earned more playing time as the season progressed but one guy cannot cover for an entire team and he still has a lot of stuff to learn before I would consider him a real plus defender (jumping for fakes, reaching in, giving up the iniside). Sad truth is that THJ probably was one of the top 5 defenders on the team this season.

There is no way that you can compete with a cast like this. Just like a couple of posters predicted prior to the season. Listening to Harrison´s exit interview the Mavs tried to focus on their strengths and just play what they viewed as their best possible lineup. Ignoring the defensive end. If I remember it correctly Harrison stated that the Mavs defense was bad prior to the Kyrie trade. Even with DFS still on the roster. Pretty obvious that things would be even worse without the only legit wing defender but I guess they thought that more offensive fire power would be enough to make up for an all time bad defense.