07-31-2023, 04:03 PM
(07-31-2023, 03:54 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: Not like the Rockets small ball experiment didn´t work. For a couple of month they were unstoppable but at some point Tucker and RoCo broke down. I guess that´s where a bigger body for the regular season would have helped them.
That´s also how I view the Mavs situation. When it matters it is going to be Williams/Kleber. Not Capela, Nurkic or any other traditional big that we can come up with. Mavs don´t need a 20m per year starting big. They need someone that can play enough minutes to reduce Maxi´s load.
This was a bubble season. RoCo and Tucker had plenty of time to rest and prepare for playoffs. Houston had a short little stretch immediately after the trade where they had something like 11-6 record. But everything was already bad in the bubble. Finished regular season with 5-5, barely beat "tanking" OKC with their former teammate CP3 and than went out against Lakers with a gentlemans sweep.