(09-03-2020, 08:39 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: [ -> ] (09-03-2020, 08:22 AM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: [ -> ]For whatever reason the Mavs rarely trade for or sign high impact defenders. Most of the time they try to add defenders through the draft or even sign undrafted players. Not really sure why. Maybe they just struggle to evaluate defensive talent. Maybe they have a offense first mentality. I just hope that they will change their approach in the future and don´t repeat the mistakes of the Dirk era. They wasted half of his prime with offensive minded rosters that lost in the playoffs because they couldn´t defend anyone.
In my opinion, it's not defensive players they have trouble finding, it's two-way players. Wright IS an impact defender, for example, but he doesn't know how to play off the ball on offense, so he's literally unplayable on a good team.
This is why I would 100% not give up on KP, Kleber or DFS, who are pretty much the only two-way players on the team.
By no metrics is Wright an impact defender. A passable one yes, maybe slightly over average. You can tell that this team is really lacking defense if we're throwing around the term impact defender to describe Delon Wright. Our defensive rating in the Clippers series was 121.4 as a team, that's only the 4th worst defensive single season playoff performance of all time and doesn't happen to a team that doesn't have a problem with doesn't have trouble finding defensive players
Montrezl Harrell wins 6th man award.
Budenholzer will be the next coach gone after this bubble debacle. I wonder what moves Milwaukee can make to come back better. Although to be honest, Giannis was exposed in the playoffs again.
BUCKS DOWN 0-3 GAMES.....!
The Bucks are toast. Miami is the surprise team in these playoffs.
(09-04-2020, 08:02 PM)omahen Wrote: [ -> ]Budenholzer will be the next coach gone after this bubble debacle. I wonder what moves Milwaukee can make to come back better. Although to be honest, Giannis was exposed in the playoffs again.
Heat are athletic and have better 3 pt shooting. They make Giannis play in a crowd. They have beat them 4 out of 5 this year. Despite their record, the Bucks were one of the worst teams defending the 3 pt shot.
I feel like the Warriors are going to get him somehow.
(09-04-2020, 08:14 PM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: [ -> ]The Bucks are toast. Miami is the surprise team in these playoffs.
(09-04-2020, 08:02 PM)omahen Wrote: [ -> ]Budenholzer will be the next coach gone after this bubble debacle. I wonder what moves Milwaukee can make to come back better. Although to be honest, Giannis was exposed in the playoffs again.
Heat are athletic and have better 3 pt shooting. They make Giannis play in a crowd.
So did we. It´s the classical many don´t care in the regular season scenario.
In a play-off series all the well-coached teams crowd the lane and then what does Giannis really have to his game? Toronto did it last year, Miami does it this year, we do it in the regular season. I said it during the bubble, I´d pick us to beat the Bucks in a play-off series.
If the Rockets sweep the Lakers I really don´t know how we get Giannis, AD and Porzingis on the court at the same time.
(09-04-2020, 08:14 PM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: [ -> ]They make Giannis play in a crowd. They have beat them 4 out of 5 this year. Despite their record, the Bucks were one of the worst teams defending the 3 pt shot.
Milwaukee is making a mistake playing Giannis as PG. He excells in fastbreak, best in league by far. But in halfcourt, defending him is just easy. Defender steps back 9 feet and dares him to shoot, leaving enough space to close on him if he wants to drive. He should play offball in halfcourt offense.
(09-04-2020, 09:03 PM)Mavs2019 Wrote: [ -> ]If the Rockets sweep the Lakers
Westbrook is a guarantee that won't happen. Unless he gets injured, than Houston has a chance
PJ Tucker has been a DOG. With Rockets having no center, Tucker had to step up in outrebounding and disrupting 4's and 5's with more size than him.
(09-04-2020, 09:03 PM)Mavs2019 Wrote: [ -> ]If the Rockets sweep the Lakers I really don´t know how we get Giannis, AD and Porzingis on the court at the same time.
I know you're being sarcastic with the Giannis thing, but if it'd happen, I don't know a single team that could ever stop the hydra that is Luka KP Giannis.
But it's really interesting how HOU is sorta like a kryptonite against LAL. Hate the Rockettes, but I wouldn't be mad if they beat LA.
(09-04-2020, 10:30 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: [ -> ]Hate the Rockettes, but I wouldn't be mad if they beat LA.
I was thinking the other day, if LeBron is one of the main reasons for NBA ratings falling last several years. Jordan was excellent skilled player with unmatched charisma. Kobe was similar. LeBron is an athletic freak of nature - he is skilled, but not as much as Jordan or Kobe were. Plus I don't really see a lot of charisma. I would actually say NBA fans don't really like him, apart from fans of the teams he plays for.
Giannis is going to look really good in blue and white in a couple years. Have Luka run the half court, Giannis run the fast break, and both Giannis and KP anchor the defense and we’ll be raising banners.
Hopefully Giannis will have learned to shoot 3s by that point at least.
Lakers are just not that good. Outside of LeBron/AD and an inconsistent Kuzma, their supporting cast might be the worst in the playoffs...yes, including the Mavs. Not sure where the offense will come from against the Rockets in this series.
(09-04-2020, 10:36 PM)DrMav Wrote: [ -> ]Hopefully Giannis will have learned to shoot 3s by that point at least.
Powell can teach him a thing or two about rim running and he will be good to go
Bucks fans have to be sick...that core is awful. Middleton and Bledsoe are not good and they are being paid a lot of money for a lot of years. If Giannis shows loyalty and takes the money to re-sign, he better understand that there won't be any championships.
Yes, Giannis has lots of flaws and will continue to improve, just like any franchise player at 26. But his supporting cast is not going to improve very much.
At least when the Mavs started fizzling out under Avery's run, Josh Howard and Devin Harris were still young and had trade value. Bledsoe and Middleton are older and good luck getting anyone to trade for those contracts.
(09-04-2020, 11:54 PM)SwisherPrice Wrote: [ -> ]Bucks fans have to be sick...that core is awful. Middleton and Bledsoe are not good and they are being paid a lot of money for a lot of years. If Giannis shows loyalty and takes the money to re-sign, he better understand that there won't be any championships.
Yes, Giannis has lots of flaws and will continue to improve, just like any franchise player at 26. But his supporting cast is not going to improve very much.
At least when the Mavs started fizzling out under Avery's run, Josh Howard and Devin Harris were still young and had trade value. Bledsoe and Middleton are older and good luck getting anyone to trade for those contracts.
It's like Lebron's first Cleveland run, tbqh.
(09-04-2020, 04:55 PM)MrGoat Wrote: [ -> ]By no metrics is Wright an impact defender. A passable one yes, maybe slightly over average. You can tell that this team is really lacking defense if we're throwing around the term impact defender to describe Delon Wright. Our defensive rating in the Clippers series was 121.4 as a team, that's only the 4th worst defensive single season playoff performance of all time and doesn't happen to a team that doesn't have a problem with doesn't have trouble finding defensive players
I agree with your assessment of the team, but not of Wright. I think he IS an impact player, but due to him being an insanely poor fit on offense, he was literally unplayable. An impact defender can't impact the game from the bench, which is where Wright was in the Clippers series.
Maybe I'm missing your point. If your message is that Wright isn't good enough to make a defensive impact from the bench, then yes, I agree completely. But it seems like you're using the Clippers series to support an argument that Wright isn't an impact defender, which seems odd since he played a total of 53 minutes in that series.
And, to be clear, I'm not claiming that Carlisle should've played him. I wouldn't have given him as many chances as he got this season, to be honest, and I'm in no way attempting to make the claim that his acquisition was a success. But, when he got those chances, I do think he demonstrated a high capability on one side of the floor.
(09-04-2020, 11:54 PM)SwisherPrice Wrote: [ -> ]Bucks fans have to be sick...that core is awful. Middleton and Bledsoe are not good and they are being paid a lot of money for a lot of years. If Giannis shows loyalty and takes the money to re-sign, he better understand that there won't be any championships.
Yes, Giannis has lots of flaws and will continue to improve, just like any franchise player at 26. But his supporting cast is not going to improve very much.
At least when the Mavs started fizzling out under Avery's run, Josh Howard and Devin Harris were still young and had trade value. Bledsoe and Middleton are older and good luck getting anyone to trade for those contracts.
My dude isn't re-signing in Milwaukee, people.
Can anyone honestly give me one name that will be more attractive in 2021 than Luka to a dude like that? Honest question. I get it - Fish sold us all on 5 years worth of click bait BS that, if we were using our brains, we would've swatted back at him Dikembe Motumbo style. But, in this case? I honestly believe Luka and the Mavs are going to have their pick.
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