HAWKS 113, MAVS 87

[omahen]

I think Porzingis is an easy target. The question I have for everyone that is clamoring for that offense is what is the ceiling with that?  I don’t see an offense that relies so heavily on the greatness of one player being sustainable more than a couple of rounds in the playoffs. Even Bron can’t win that way. 

In the Clippers series Luka’s production in the 4th seemed to take a dip. 

Now if you are saying keep the offense the same and bring another creator, then too it is a different offense. For this team to be a legit contender we need a diversified offense where Luka has to go stretches as a decoy or play off the ball.  Keep him fresh for the 4th also.  

I am willing to give whatever Kidd is trying a chance because I just didn’t see a championship ceiling with what we were running previously though it did look great at times. The bottom line is that we had a home court game to wrap up a playoff series and came up with a terrible offensive performance.  I am not shedding too many tears for that offens.

I agree no one can win with one man carrying all the burden. But I also think that RC mostly squeezed out what he could out of this team as far as offensive part is concerned. Mavs need better players to be able to play differently on offense, imho. I mean, their big offseason acquisitions were 3-D wings yet now they are expecting from them to be something else? These are not young guys improving their games. These are proven vets with their limitations. Isn't that excactly what made JRich and DWright ineffective with Mavs - asking them to do too much? Moving to Bullock who was supposed to stand around in the corner shooting open threes. One could actually argue that JRich and his midrange game would fit better than DFS or Bullock into what Kidd looked to create against Atlanta.

I don't understand why don't they just copy the Slovenian model from Olympics. Extremely limited team was playing arguably most beautiful offensive basketball at the tournament while being coached by an assistant coach from Czech league (since promoted to head coach at same team). One center who can shoot and PnR and three 3-D wings next to Luka. All individualy very limited, but worked great with Luka connecting everything. They played fast with wings pushing the tempo while half court offense were just endless PnR. Luka and Tobey, a very average center, were a menace even for France with Gobert. If one or two of your wings can also create, you have a contender, imho, with them switching opportunities to create.