Mavs rotation

[ItsGoTime]

I could be misremembering, but I think I have noticed you mentioning that several times as an indicator that defensive players might be favored in minutes over offensive ones this season. (Do I have that right?)


I probably haven't seen everything on that, but the thing I remember is the comments Kidd made when he was introduced. I'm not sure we can read anything in particular into that. It struck me as just the sort of bland stuff coaches say. (When is the last time we heard one of them introduce the season saying the team probably won't pay as much attention to defense in the coming season?) 

We heard the same tune last season, and they even made a couple moves that looked they were going in that direction, but it seemed like they ended up just weakening the offense and not improving the defense. Not all their fault, various balls just didn't bounce their way.

In the end, I hope they do attend more to defense, but I think Kidd will generally go with his best lineups in important games, rather than forcing defensive players on at the expense of the offense. (You may not be saying anything different.)

I’m not, it will and SHOULD come down to what lineups play together the best as a whole to win games. With this team right now, that means THJ plays a lot. It also may mean we stay in the bottom third in the league as a defensive team (I’m not putting that all on THJ, but more on the mentality of if we’re going to keep acquiring and playing lesser defenders, then Kidd is doing no different than RC in only giving lip service to D).


I originally talked about how RC said this same thing at the beginning of the season every season and we didn’t see much improvement in that aspect in general (based on team defensive rankings). I hope that changes with Kidd and it’s not just lip service!