(09-26-2022, 05:17 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I mean, I suppose...but it's not really a matter of opinion, honestly. 

The entire Dallas approach late season was to start with one of those plays, and by then teams were like "F it, we're just going to switch everything. They're not getting us with that pick and roll." Then, Luka just goes to work on whatever big, dumb dinosaur lands in front of him. 

THAT is the pick and roll WORKING in the playoffs. It's the opponent declaring right in front of our eyes that they're more worried about the multi-threat action than they are having Gobert or Ayton try to defend Luka on an island.

(09-26-2022, 05:28 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I think Crowder would help, but not as much as I thought back when he signed in PHX instead of coming here. He's just not the same player he was then, I don't think. 

Plus, I think the team might be slightly worse this season, anyway, and Crowder, while helping in some areas, wouldn't solve some of what really worries me. 

I've read in a few places recently that Crowder is upset in PHX because they want him to come off the bench, and he's focused on finding a starting job so that he can maximize his chances for one more big payday. I'm not sure I'd see him as a starter here, personally, and even if I did I certainly wouldn't want to be painted into a corner like that were I the Mavs.

Add all of that up, and no, I don't think I'd cough up Josh Green for Crowder, though if Green doesn't take a major step forward this season I might feel silly for saying so in a few months.

(09-27-2022, 06:59 AM)omahen Wrote: I am surprised this didn't make it to US media (or I didn't see it). Not sure if all of it is true or 100 % true. Basically, one of Slovenian players, a 30 year old very average 3-D wing, even by European standards, is claiming that Dallas offered him a 2-way contract and that naturally Luka was behind it. The guy says he declined the offer.

If true, I find it problematic. I perfectly understand Luka doesn't want to be a GM, but that should include doing favors to his friends whose only real qualification is that they are his friends. This goes both for Marko Milic as well as in this case of Edo Muric. Friends and business should be separated. Might be difficult, but it really is that simple. Everything else just leads to problems.

Slovenski reprezentant razkril, zakaj je zavrnil ponudbo Dallasa - siol.net

(09-27-2022, 07:55 AM)ItsGoTime Wrote: I will say, the Antetokunmpo brothers got this treatment too.

(09-27-2022, 08:27 AM)omahen Wrote: Totally agree with your take. However, thinking more about it, we can't say other teams are immune to this. Miami signed Goran Dragic brother Zoran when they signed Goran. GSW had Currys brother in law. Portland had Keljin Blevins, who is Lillards nephew, if I remember correctly.

(09-26-2022, 04:59 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: It DID work, it's just that by that point all of the defenses are great at seeing the first option (roller) coming and taking it away. That's how Luka ends up making people look so silly in the playoffs, because the defense is taking the screener (not only Powell, but certainly Powell when he's in there) away. It's also how Kleber got those 8 3's to drop from the corner against Utah, because Gobert had to make a choice on those plays.

(09-27-2022, 10:49 AM)Hypermav Wrote: Maybe this was already mentioned but Kidd stated we had to rely on the volume three last year during the playoffs and followed that up with this year we won't necessarily have to. Considering we lost a playmaker in Brunson, that is an interesting statement.

I think he has big plans for C Wood.

(09-27-2022, 09:53 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Thus, in the playoffs the team was +6.8 points per 100 possessions with Powell in there.

(09-27-2022, 10:49 AM)Hypermav Wrote: Maybe this was already mentioned but Kidd stated we had to rely on the volume three last year during the playoffs and followed that up with this year we won't necessarily have to. Considering we lost a playmaker in Brunson, that is an interesting statement.

I think he has big plans for C Wood.

(09-26-2022, 05:31 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: That's better, but I'm not even sure I'd do that.

(09-28-2022, 07:25 AM)Kammrath Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfWhjZKAq0Q