(07-12-2022, 03:53 PM)ItsGoTime Wrote: They are starting together confirmed!

(07-12-2022, 03:54 PM)IamDougieFresh Wrote: Ah shit not a paywall

(07-12-2022, 03:56 PM)IamDougieFresh Wrote: Is this speculation by Mr. Cato or am I going to have to have a talk with Mark/Nico/Kidd?

This might break me tbh.

(07-12-2022, 03:56 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Thinking through this Wood off the bench thing...no idea if it will really go down like that or not, or how long it will last, or whatever. But...

...OMG would he destroy bench units.

(07-12-2022, 03:54 PM)KillerLeft Wrote:

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The article says McGee is a stater, Wood off the bench. 

Dwight playing PG, handling the rock. They're working hard on an extension for him that befits his new role. Bigger than Brunson money.

(07-12-2022, 03:59 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: Smart plan. Eliminate the middle man. That was always the flaw in the lob and catch plan. Just let Powell be the lob and the catch.

Dwight McPowelly

(07-12-2022, 04:02 PM)IamDougieFresh Wrote: I’ll be back meter with a massive rant if they don’t come out me in a padded room first.

(07-12-2022, 04:11 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Remember when Dampier was starting over Haywood in 2010 and everyone here (wherever we were back then) lost their minds, and then later we learned that Carlisle thought Dampier's only chance of making a positive impact was to play him with Kidd? 

I bet that this (if true) is at least partly based on the idea that McGee will be far more effective if 100% of his minutes come with Luka. I bet the plan is for him to play Luka's stretches of both the 1st and 3rd quarters, exit when Luka exits, and then never re-enter games. CW/Luka happens to close out halves. 

Honestly, I don't hate that. If he started, he'd just be standing in the corner while Luka ran pnr with McGee, anyway. As long as they're using their resources with intelligence to maximize potential I'm up for anything, really.

(07-12-2022, 04:24 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: Surprised it took so long to point this aspect out.

(07-12-2022, 04:23 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Come on, where's everybody who was calling me negative yesterday???! I'm in here ready to party now!

(07-12-2022, 04:29 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I think it took so long because ALL of us were looking at the roster and seeing FOUR BIGS among the top 8-9 players. We assumed that meant at least the beginning of each game would include two of them (except @"F Gump") because honestly, that's how the roster is set up! I don't think anyone has stopped to even consider either Wood or McGee to start games (except F Gump). 

THANK GOD for even just a hint of the possibility that's not the plan. PARTY TIME! 

(07-12-2022, 04:34 PM)dirkfansince1998 Wrote: I just cannot keep up with the daily mood swings of this board...

(07-12-2022, 04:11 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: Remember when Dampier was starting over Haywood in 2010 and everyone here (wherever we were back then) lost their minds, and then later we learned that Carlisle thought Dampier's only chance of making a positive impact was to play him with Kidd? 

I bet that this (if true) is at least partly based on the idea that McGee will be far more effective if 100% of his minutes come with Luka. I bet the plan is for him to play Luka's stretches of both the 1st and 3rd quarters, exit when Luka exits, and then never re-enter games. CW/Luka happens to close out halves. 

Honestly, I don't hate that. If he started, he'd just be standing in the corner while Luka ran pnr with McGee, anyway. As long as they're using their resources with intelligence to maximize potential I'm up for anything, really.

(07-12-2022, 04:36 PM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: Would you say that with the Cato article you are a little more inclined to believe a Powell trade is still coming?

(07-12-2022, 04:38 PM)cow Wrote: That's far underestimating McGee ability on both ends of the floor.

(07-12-2022, 04:38 PM)cow Wrote: That's far underestimating McGee ability on both ends of the floor.

(07-12-2022, 04:41 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: How? I'm not meaning to do that. I'm not even factoring defense into the point at all, tbh. I'm simply suggesting that McGee's offensive game is screen/roll, so it makes sense to me that Kidd would want him to play with the team's transcendent pnr ball-handler. I don't think that's negative about McGee at all.

(07-12-2022, 04:50 PM)mvossman Wrote: I am struggling to understand why this guy who is so good got less than 10 minutes a game in his last 5 seasons of playoffs since being with the Mavs (including some DNPs like the entire LA finals) and nobody has held on to him for more than a year or two when he was only getting the minimum?

(07-12-2022, 04:54 PM)cow Wrote: Because we signed McGee for a reason, to band aide a shortfall on the team and not the other way around.  McGee will be covering up some of the teams warts and not the other way around like your example.

(07-12-2022, 04:58 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I'm just saying they will get more out of his offensive strengths if he plays with Luka and that it might have had something to do with their thinking on when he'll get his playing time.